Author: Fylde Council

Preparations are well under way to welcome visitors back to Fylde and Wyre later this year and council leaders have joined together to ask people to be patient and wait a little longer before visiting the coast. While excitement is building for the brighter days that are coming, visitors from further afield in Lancashire and beyond…

Read more Coastal councils prepare for brighter days and urge visitors to be patient

Fylde Council is reaching out to the hospitality sector to support businesses and help them prepare for a great British summer. In line with the Government’s roadmap for the easing of lockdown restrictions, the council is asking for hospitality businesses such as cafes, restaurants, bars and pubs to get in touch about their plans for reopening. If…

Read more Helping Fylde’s hospitality sector prepare for a great British summer

Fylde is encouraging people to participate in a National Day of Reflection on March 23 - a year after the UK went into the first lockdown. The reflections will include a national minute silence at 12 noon, lighting up Lytham Windmill in yellow and flying the flag at half-mast over the town hall. The National Day of…

Read more Fylde Council reflects and remembers 12 months of Covid-19

Small, independent businesses are being invited to apply for a new post-Covid recovery grant to help stimulate the town centre economies in Lytham, St Annes and Kirkham. Businesses locating to, or expanding into, vacant premises could be eligible to receive 50 per cent of the set-up, shop fit, refit or branding costs at a value of…

Read more Fylde Council launches grant scheme to stimulate town centres

Playgrounds across Fylde will be improved, parks made more secure, and flood-hit areas will be helped after Fylde Council passed its budget last Thursday. All councillors - bar one who abstained - voted for the budget proposals, which will see bills increase by just eight pence per week for a Band D property. Council leader Councillor Karen…

Read more A budget to deliver investment across Fylde

At the Budget Council meeting that will take place on Thursday 4^th March, Councillors will look to approve two schemes to improve surface water drainage at both Park View in Lytham and in the vicinity of Eddleston Close in Staining. Both areas have been subject to flooding over recent years, causing damage to fields and play…

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Fylde Council has distributed and invested more than £29m in Covid-19 grants and support to businesses, residents and projects since April last year. The bulk of the money has been provided to a wide range of businesses to help them survive during the succession of lockdowns and tiered restrictions which started almost 12 months ago. Vital funds…

Read more Fylde distributes £29m in Covid relief and support to residents, businesses and organisations

Fylde Council is adding two new mobile testing Units to its armoury in the fight against Covid-19. Elswick and Staining village halls will join William Segar Hodgson Pavilion in Kirkham and Rawstorne Sports Centre in Freckleton as mobile testing units on selected dates throughout March. These sites are in addition to the permanent facility at Fairhaven Road…

Read more Fylde Council ramps up Covid-19 testing sites