Just to let residents know that the “UK’s biggest free tribute act festival” returns to St Mary’s Park for the 8th time Saturday 27 – Sunday 28 July 2019. Two days of tribute acts including tributes to Prince, Coldplay and Duran Duran! Apparently tickets are sold out. More information here. Please let us know if […]

At the most recent full Council meeting of Bury Council, your Liberal Democrat team of councillors asked a number of questions regarding rubbish and recycling. Questions and Answers below: Councillor Cristina Tegolo asked about the number of households that have had their bins removed by the Council: “Could the Leader inform members how many households […]

Bury Council’s ‘Pitch’ Community Funding is for constituted and non-constituted groups, special interest groups and residents who are undertaking projects that will contribute to improving the health and well being of local people within their community. Projects must be delivered in the area identified for local residents and should be community led and demonstrate that […]

Just three new planning applications in the last month. Please just let us know if you have any queries. Creation of new vehicular access and driveway 408 Bury Old Road, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 1PZRef. No: 64357 | Received: Tue 25 Jun 2019 | Validated: Tue 02 Jul 2019 | Status: Registered Certificate of lawfulness for proposed single storey extension at rear126 Cuckoo […]

Bury Trading Standards is supporting the Citizens Advice campaign on scams awareness which is running over the next couple of weeks. This is a yearly campaign to highlight the dangers posed by scammers but also provide advice to keep people safe and feeling confident in what to do when they see a scam. Scams to […]

Last week was the monthly meeting of Bury Planning Control Committee. This is the meeting made up of the 11 Councillors who represent the various wards of the borough of Bury. The committee determines planning applications for certain major developments and others where objections have been received.  Councillor Cristina Tegolo reports: Details of all the planning applications […]

Councillors Cristina Tegolo and Tim Pickstone recently met with Council Officers and held discussions with the police to look at ways of improving the Baguley Crescent area – on the East side of Holyrood Ward.  Waste collection and Fly-TippingSome of the blocks at Baguley Crescent suffer from problems with waste and fly-tipping. Some communal bins […]

Just to let residents know about recent planning applications in our area . Please just let us know if you have any queries. Two quote significant applications – one for change of use of the row of terraces on Bury Old Road which used to be part of the ‘Transformation’ business – with an application […]

Parklife weekend is over for another year (although we have one more separate concert this Saturday – the Courteeners on 15 June 2019). Your local councillors we are keen to get feedback from residents about the weekend, and also your ideas on things that could be done differently in the future, so that we can […]

On the 21 May was the monthly meeting of Bury Planning Control Committee. This is the meeting made up of the 11 Councillors who represent various wards of the borough of Bury. The committee determines planning applications for certain major developments and others where objections have been received.  Councillor Cristina Tegolo reports: Prior to the Committee meeting, […]