Bury Council is working with the Football Foundation and Lancashire County FA on developing a funding application for a ‘state of the art’ 3G football facility in Radcliffe. The council has set aside a total of £500,000 funding for the project and will seek additional funding from other partners too.
A total of 65,203 people registered with a Bury GP have now been vaccinated against coronavirus.
The updated figures mean that nearly 36% of the eligible population (182,100) have been given at least one of the two jabs necessary to protect against the potentially fatal illness.
A growing number of people are now receiving their second dose of vaccination - currently in Bury 683 aged under 6
Bury Council is to invest a further £600,000 in green spaces in its next phase of an ongoing programme to upgrade Bury’s Green Flag parks. This complements a wider £1.1m green spaces improvement programme approved in November 2020.
Road closure from Tuesday 3 March at Angouleme Way between Manchester Road and Knowsley Street
The next instalment in the Bury Futures showcase will get underway at 2pm on Thursday 4 March. This will debate Bury’s strengths and how we nurture these for the health and happiness of future generations. To join the conversation see www.bury.gov.uk/buryfutures
Bury Council is gearing up to deliver a £550,000 revamp to play facilities across the borough. The investment recognises the need for quality, safe, accessible and sustainable play facilities that help maintain and improve the quality of people’s lives.
With today (Monday March 1) marking a year since the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in Bury, a new film has launched reflecting on the borough’s pandemic response.
A pop-up Covid-19 vaccination clinic aimed at Bury’s south Asian community attracted nearly 200 people to come and get their jabs last Saturday.
Thousands of the lowest-paid social care and other workers are to get a pay rise, most of them employed in the private sector.
A new skate park will be built at Clarence Park in Bury as part of a major upgrade of this much-loved recreational ground.
Around 59,000 people registered with a Bury GP have now been vaccinated against coronavirus.
Bury Council has set aside £250,000 to refurbish and improve the athletics track and facilities at Market Street, Bury.
Social care staff who have been at the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are among those to be rewarded by the council’s first post-Covid budget.
Social care staff who have been at the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are among those to be rewarded by the council’s first post-Covid budget.
The East Lancashire Railway (ELR) has received a vital cash boost to help towards safeguarding its future, as the ongoing impact of the pandemic has left it fighting for financial survival.
Radcliffe’s Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) is the masterplan to support regeneration, investment and growth over the next 15 years.
Council leaders are counting the cost of Covid as they prepare to set the budget for 2021/22.
A £6 million fund is being set up to kick-start regeneration projects across the borough.
Specialist help will be provided to local Jewish businesses to help them cope and recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
A new open call has been announced by Bury Town of Culture to find six local artists to create a series of creative micro-commissions for the town.
