“Ring out the old, bring in the new” This pandemic year has been a challenge like no other in my lifetime.  I’m full of nostalgia for past Christmases; the family gatherings, carol concerts and office parties and most of all the ability to hug my (grown up) children close.  Yet I have escaped the suffering of…

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Additional support for those businesses hit hardest this Christmas Fylde Council is providing additional financial support this Christmas to businesses hit hardest by the latest round of COVID restrictions by exercising local discretion through the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG).  The grant has been funded through Central Government with local authorities encouraged to target priority businesses in…

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Lancashire will be placed into the most stringent restrictions when the national lockdown ends next week, the government has announced.   Lancashire's political leaders had requested a more targeted approach, with areas with lower infection rates going into Tier 2 and those with higher rates into Tier 3.   Instead, the entire Lancashire area will be in the "very…

Read more Top tier of restrictions for Lancashire including Fylde

Fylde councillors will discuss the appointment of a Town Centres Manager and Economic Development Officer as part of a funding boost for the borough’s town centres. Councillors on the Finance and Democracy committee will meet on Monday (November 23) to look at a range of measures to boost the economy – most notably the borough’s town…

Read more Councillors to consider approving further funding to boost Fylde’s Town Centres

At a meeting of the Finance and Democracy Committee to be held on Monday 23rd November, Members will consider proposals to reduce the number of Elected Members in the Fylde Borough from 51 to 37. The proposal forms part of a Local Government Boundary Review which was triggered in Fylde because of electoral inequality resulting from…

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Fylde Council has had confirmation from a government inspector that it has enough land for housing over the next five years. The Inspector’s Report regarding the Council’s Five-Year Housing Land Supply Annual Position Statement confirms the position for a further year, until October 2021. This follows recent challenges from developers who stated that the Council had a…

Read more Fylde Council’s Housing Supply Confirmed by the Government