Chorley Council’s website currently allows members of the public to view information regarding their locality using mapping services called “My Chorley “ and My Maps” and “My Ward” which allows Councillors and customers to view information specific to their ward.

It is intended to provide a similar facility called “My Parish”, which would provide a similar set of information based around Parish, rather than Ward boundaries. Information would include the location of parish owned assets, such as memorials etc, providing residents with a way of showing the location of these assets, along with information relating to ownership and maintenance responsibility of the asset.

People from across Chorley are taking advantage of a free service offered by Chorley Council to help them with their heating bills and to travel to medical appointments. Aimed at people aged over 65, the ‘Keep Warm and Well’ campaign which runs throughout the winter is proving a huge success.

There are a wide range of iniatives that people can take up free of charge, including a warm homes check and boiler service.

The Councils budget for 2014/15 has now been set, council tax has once again been frozen for the residents of Chorley and a package of investments agreed, details of which can be viewed in the papers by clicking on the link below.

Chorley has taken its first steps to become a dementia-friendly community to support people who suffer from the debilitating disease and their carers.

Chorley Council played host to the launch of the dementia friendly communities bid inviting a range of groups, businesses and organisations across central Lancashire to hear keynote speakers highlight the need to raise awareness of dementia and to promote better understanding of the needs of sufferers and the people who look after them

Chorley's Overview and Scrutiny Committee are currently undertaking a review of CCTV provision in Chorley and have emailed all parish councils to find out their views.

The task group are keen to know your views on what value you place on the current provision and what benefits, if any, you receive from the service, if you make any contribution to its provision and what impact do you feel there would be if the CCTV system was either reduced or upgraded?

Members of the public can also have their say by clicking on the link below.

All your views will be considered by the group and fed into the final report of the review.

For further details contact Dianne: dianne.scambler@chorley.gov.uk

Following recent consultation which many of you contributed to, a five year development plan for 2014 - 2019 has been recently approved that details the actions to be taken by the Council at Astley Hall and Park, covering five key areas:

Astley Hall and Park conservation
Improving the visitor offer and experience
Business development to support a sustainable business model
Heritage Partnership development, and
World War 1 commemoration

A draft Renewable and Low Energy Supplementary Planning Document(SPD)was approved for consultation by the Executive Cabinet at a recent meeting.

The SPD expands on Core Strategy Policy 28 and provides further guidance on the implementation of this policy. Details are provided on various renewable and low carbon energy technologies, their requirements and the planning issues associated with each technology that would need to be addressed as part of any planning application.

The technologies covered by the SPD are; wind turbines, solar power, hydropower, biomass, heat pumps and combined heat and power.

IF you’re wanting to know what’s happening in and around Chorley in the next few months, all you need to do is pick up the latest events magazine produced by Chorley Council.

The magazine, called What’s Happening in Chorley, is packed with events and activities for people to enjoy and is available to pick up for free or can be accessed online.

From 1 April 2014 a discount of 50% has been introduced for annexes which are:

Occupied by a relative of the person liable to pay the council tax of the main dwelling; or 'unoccupied’ as the person living in the main dwelling is using the annex as part of their main home

If you love cycling and would like to support and inspire others to get riding, sign up for a free ride leader course taking place right here in the Chorley borough.

Chorley Council has teamed up with British Cycling to find new ride leaders who will inspire people in the area to get on their bikes and start cycling for fun.

The free course will take place on Saturday, 22 March and will qualify participants to deliver guided bike rides for groups of beginner and intermediate level adults and accompanied children on roads and cycle paths.

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