Co-operation sees local Milnshaw Residents receive Low Energy Security Lighting

This week sees the completion of a project on the Laneside estate that sees low energy security lighting fitted to Milnshaw residents properties on both Ribblesdale Ave and Ribbleton Drive Accrington. The Residents, pictured along with Cllr Paul Cox and Laneside Residents Association Chairman Malcolm Sommerville, are delighted with the new security lights outside their properties.

The project shows how in these austere times local partners working together can provide a solution to residents concerns. Late last year Cllr Paul Cox noticed how these flats at their entrances, due to there construction, where poorly light Working with Laneside Residents it was also discovered that a hand rail was needed on one of the blocks of flats to help assist residents who accessed both Laneside community centre and properties along Ribblesdale Avenue.

Cllr Cox and Mr Sommerville contacted both Hyndburn Homes and Church and Milnshaw Community Group to help provide the funding for this proposed project. Both Hyndburn Borough Council, through Church & Milnshaw Community Group (CMCG) and Hyndburn Homes were fantastic in their responses to the needs of the community. Both organisations provided the much needed funding, with Hyndburn Homes also providing the help of the Neighbourhood Manager , Mr David Motley, who working with Cllr Cox and Laneside Residents association to helped see this work completed.

Cllr Cox stated, ” to see local partners working together in cooperation like this can only be of benefit to the local community, to often organisations fail to work as a team, to often in the past silo thinking has led to good projects failing to see the light of day”

Malclom Sommerville also added, “we at Laneside have established a good working relationship with both Cllr Paul Cox and Hyndburn Homes which has enabled us to help give our residents the much needed lights that will make them feel a little safer in their homes as the winter evenings draw in”

Milnshaw borough councillor Paul Cox also said ” it is very important to listen to the needs of the community and act in a way to help the most people with what little funding is available Community groups have to realise that funding is limited. So, like Laneside Residents association, the need is one of combined efforts deliver the best rewards.