Bolton Liberal Democrats » Council business http://www.bolton-libdems.org.uk Working for the people of Bolton Fri, 07 May 2010 06:28:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Schools plans opened to public http://www.bolton-libdems.org.uk/content/school-plans-opened-to-public-debate/ http://www.bolton-libdems.org.uk/content/school-plans-opened-to-public-debate/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:07:46 +0000 Bolton Liberal Democrats http://www.bolton-libdems.org.uk/?p=303 A series of open evenings aimed at sharing the borough’s plans for Building Schools for the Future will commence this week.

Each school in Phase One of the BSF Programme will show their plans to students, parents and the wider community during a 90 minute drop-in session. Members of the community are encouraged to attend as this is their opportunity to help shape plans to improve leisure, sport and adult learning facilities in their local area through this investment into schools.

Ladybridge High and Rumworth Special schools, who will share a site as part of their refurbishment, will kick start the open days on Wednesday, March 3 with a session specifically for the community.

The event starts at 7pm at Ladybridge and will finish at 8.30pm.

Sessions will also follow on Wednesday, March 17 for Ladybridge parents and on Thursday, March 25 for Rumworth parents.

Open sessions, for parents and the community, will be held at Bolton Muslim Girls School on Thursday, March 4; Westhoughton on Tuesday, March 9; Little Lever on Tuesday, March 16; Smithills on Thursday, March 18 and Sharples on Tuesday, March 23.

Each open evening runs from 7pm to 8.30pm and will provide parents and the community the opportunity to find out more and have their say on the ideas put forward by each school.

The open evenings follow a successful BSF design day held recently, which saw the pupils present their ideas to an audience of local authority representatives, other schools from Phase Two and Three and Balfour Beatty Education, the company selected to deliver the BSF Programme in Bolton.

The plans are still being developed and people are encouraged to register their views by March 31 at www.bolton.gov.uk/bsf

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A series of six pre-budget consultation meetings will take place ahead of Bolton Council’s budget being set.

However the council told us that the meetings “are not area forums and other issues will not be considered for discussion at these meetings.”

The meetings will take place as follows:

Tuesday 12th, 7pm  Astley Bridge/ Bromley Cross/Bradshaw  - Turton High School Arts Theatre

Wednesday 13th 7pm  Tonge with the Haulgh/ Breightmet/Little Lever and Darcy Lever – Leverhulme Primary School

Thursday 14th 7pm  Westhoughton with Chew Moor / Hulton/ Heaton & Lostock - Tempest Road FC,  Main Hall

Monday 25th 1pm  Harper Green/ Farnworth/ Kearsley –  Farnworth Town Hall

Tuesday 26th 7pm  Two Towns/ Smithills   St. Catherine’s Primary School

Wednesday 27th 2pm  Halliwell/Crompton/Great Lever /Rumworth – Festival Hall, Bolton  Town Hall

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