ANOTHER parish council has decided not to take advantage of Warrington Borough Council’s offer to sign up to a “winter self-help partnership agreement.”
Great Sankey Parish Council has decided, regretfully, to decline the invitation.
Previously, Stockton Heath and Culcheth and Glazebury parish councils had made similar decisions.
Under the scheme, the borough offered to supply a small quantity of grit and equipment to parish councils to enable them to carry out gritting, etc to keep local roads open in the event of severe weather.
Great Sankey, like the other councils, decided it did not have the resources to carry out the scheme.
A spokesperson said: “After a lot of discussion and thought the parish council decided to regretfully decline the invitation.
“Although it is dedicated to trying to improve quality of life for people living in Great Sankey, it was clear that the parish council did not have the manpower, money, equipment or expertise to be able to take this work on and do it safely and to the standards achieved previously by borough council workers.
“It would need to increase the precept it charges to council tax payers by a substantial amount in order to fund this work, but there would not be any corresponding decrease in the amount charged to ratepayers by Warrington Borough Council.
“The parish council decided it was best to leave the present arrangements to stand.”
ANOTHER parish council has decided not to take advantage of Warrington
Borough Council's offer to sign up to a "winter self-help partnership
agreement."
Council rejects self-help offer
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The Fearnhead Parish grit outside their community centre in the yellow box came in very useful on Thursday. I was able to use it to do a temporary fix to the pavement. Two brick had become dislodged and the hole was covered by fallen leaves.
I borowed a small shovel from the community centre, found one of the bricks and used the grit to pack and secure the gap.
The emergency team were then called out and did a first class repair before the days end.
With the forecast of snow and ice we need to have additional measures in place. I fell on my back and split my head delivering leaflets earlier this year to let people in my ward know when the bin collections would be done. It took four months before my ribs knitted back and the pain killers from the doctors bunged me up good style causing another form of agony.
Having access to additional grit can prove useful.
just for a change you have got the whole winter thing wrong – well done Mr Settle
its not self help – its the council tax payer paying twice
Mr Settle. Why you use a sentence when you can use 200 words????
We had yellow bins until the council decided to remove them!!. Just get back to the status quo. and maybe we can do things.