Petition to SAVE Favordale and STOP Lancashire County Council closing Favordale Care Home in Colne. Lancashire County Council is reviewing the future of five care homes in the county, including Favordale in Colne. Favordale is a caring and loving home which is rated as 'Good' by external inspectors. Liberal Democrat councillors are campaigning to SAVE Favordale and STOP the county council closing it down.
Veteran Liberal Democrat councillor David Whipp is asking residents to help keep local control of local services.
"The Government is replacing local district and county councils with large 'unitary' bodies," said Councillor Whipp. "For people in Pendle, that could mean having a council of half-a-million or over 700,000 residents.
"I think councils that size would be much too big. Residents would loose any semblance of local control of their services and facilities.
"I'm backing an option for a new unitary council based on Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale.
"This would be the right size to run social care services properly and small enough to care about all the townships and communities in our area.
"The proposal for five unitary councils to replace the 15 existing bodies in Lancashire is the one to back at our end of the county."
An online survey is underway asking residents what they think about the options.
Here's a link to the survey. https://www.givemyview.com/lancashirelgr
Councillor Whipp is asking people to fill in the survey. "This asks a lot of 'motherhood and apple pie' questions, with only two narrative questions giving people a chance to let authorities know what they think about unitary councils. Unfortunately there isn't an opportunity for people to 'vote' for an option."
Liberal Democrats are working hard to represent our communities in Parliament, and in council chambers across Britain. We are committed to keeping council services local and effective!
This followed on from a local elections in which the Liberal Democrats came second here in the North West of England winning 50 seats to the Conservatives 43 seats, and across Lancashire we secured 3rd with 21.5% of the vote in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
Here in Pendle the Liberal Democrats are working hard to secure the help and services local people need following years of cuts and chaos from the former Conservative Government followed by the severe austerity of this Labour Government.
Pendle Council has agreed Liberal Democrat proposals to scrap a controversial multi-million pound Waste Transfer Station in Nelson.
At the council's budget meeting, Liberal councillors successfully proposed investing in a Empty Homes initiative; energy saving at sport and leisure centres; and public realm improvements in town centres (Barnoldswick, Brierfield and Earby), instead of spending over £2 million on the transfer station.
The Liberal group stopped Conservative cuts to street cleansing. The Tories wanted to cut two mechanical sweepers, reducing cleaning in many parts of Pendle, but with Nelson getting extra resources.
The Conservatives also wanted to charge for bulky household waste collections and lost bins. They wanted to bring back a profit-driven private enforcement company to issue fines. Previously, the arrangement had resulted in ‘easy pickings’, such as dogs off lead, being targeted, with no improvement in littering or dog fouling. The Liberal group defeated these changes.
A Liberal Democrat proposal to re-wild Marsden Park Golf Course was lost. The course is set to close, and future use of the land is uncertain. A feasibility study into building a crematorium was also voted down, with a majority of councillors continuing to back spending millions on a large new cemetery in Nelson.
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