Goldshaw Booth Parish Council
Parish Meeting, Kathleen Wilkinson, Jog in the Park, Tai Chi, Maintenance...
Many thanks to all the residents who turned out for our Annual Parish Meeting and the screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing, exploring the climate and nature crisis. Everyone agreed that the film was extremely thought-provoking and that everyone in the UK should have an opportunity to see the film on prime-time TV – we will be lobbying our MP Jonathan Hinder for this to happen. During the subsequent discussion, support was expressed for the new repair shop and café in Barley, expanding our current recycling scheme and possibly setting up a residents’ food buying group with the wholesale cooperative Suma. If you’re interested in these or any other ideas, please do drop us a line at clerk@goldshawboothparish.org.
At the May Parish Council Meeting, Beccy Murrell was re-elected as Chair and Paul Kavanagh as Vice Chair. The Parish Council would like to express their sincere thanks and gratitude to Councillor Kathleen Wilkinson who stood down as the Goldshaw Booth representative at Barrowford and Western Parishes, a position she has held for over 50 years, since 1974!
Our series of community wellbeing events got off to a great start with Jog In The Park on 10th May – 25 people ran between 1 and 3km, before enjoying refreshments provided by the sponsor Haffners. The next runs are at 10am on Sunday 5th July – you can register at: jogintheparkgb@hotmail.com and by popular request there is now the option to run 5km (6 laps). We are delighted that Witches Galore has agreed to sponsor our outdoor Tai Chi wellbeing events, which will be taking place in Newchurch on the top playing field by the Pavillion on Sunday 28th June, 2nd August and 6th September.
There has been plenty of maintenance undertaken and ongoing around the villages. The first phase of the railings painting at Higher Spen has been completed by Brian Pinder and has greatly improved their appearance – the Parish Council is extremely grateful to Brian for doing such a thorough job – thank you! The Sabden Fold CCTV is now operational with excellent clarity and two formal requests to access incident footage have been actioned. At the toilet block, the notice board is being refurbished, the toilet gutters are being cleared and the broken unisex toilet unit replaced.
On less positive notes, the source of the discharge into the stream at Spenbrook has still not been identified and the Environment Agency is arranging a site meeting with Pendle Borough Council, and a local resident has informed the Parish Council that some malicious damage had occurred to a vehicle whilst parked overnight in the village – please can residents be extra vigilant around their property.
Our next meeting is on Monday 8th June, 7pm, at St Mary’s Church in Newchurch – please come along for a warm welcome and a cup of tea.