Councillor Mike McCabe

Their is a special forum at the Dixons Allerton academy on March 22 at 7pm where development proposals will be presented.

 Following this public consultation a full planning application will be submitted probably in May 2010.

Proposals for the primary element of the acadamy will be at a later date depending on the proposal to demolisdh the existing listed acadamy buildings.

the site already has the benefit of a formally approved development brief. this is tantamount to an acceptance of the development in principle by the planning authority.

There have been many problems with no grit bins being filled in the Thornton area following the heavy snow this month.

I have spoken to the environment  team and have been assured that they will do thier best to ensure that we have our bins filled as soon as possible.

I have also requested new grit bins for high street thornton and for hill Top Close in Allerton. Hopefully these will be provided sooner rather than later.�As you can appreciate they are currently inundated with requests.