£16M School Places Plan
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Bolton Scene 1 BolThe council newspaper for theton Bolton family www.bolton.gov.uk Scene Issue 145 June 2018 Election results The count for the local elections in Bolton has taken place. The make-up of Bolton Council is now as follows: • Labour 31 • Conservative 19 • Farnworth & Kearsley First 3 • Liberal Democrat 3 • UKIP 3 • Other 1 Full results for each ward can be found on our website – www.bolton.gov.uk Meet your councillors – see page 2 100 years of voting THE new woman Lead- er of Bolton Council, Cllr Linda Thomas un- veiled a memorial to Mary Barnes OBE, to commemorate the Farn- worth suffragist and campaigner for equal rights and 100 years since women were al- lowed to vote. Also pictured at the unveiling are the fami- ly of Mary Barnes with members of the Farn- worth community and councillors who organ- ised the memorial and a family fun day. The Representation of People Act gave the vote to women over 30 who held £5 or property or had husbands who did, and all men over 21 years old. See page 7 £16m school places plan ated, equating to 1,145 bridge, St Joseph’s RC, and is currently consult- While there are pres- MORE than 1000 demand for places as large numbers of pri- secondary places over- and Westhoughton. The ing with local primary ently enough places for secondary school mary school pupils all to accommodate ris- council, working with schools to explore op- Reception age children places are set to be progress and trans- ing numbers of Year 7 to Diocesan and Academy portunities to create ad- who require a school created as part of a fer into secondary Year 11 pupils. partners, is being al- ditional capacity. This place, it is expected that £16 million expan- In addition to Turton, lowed to draw upon its could result in the crea- demand will increase for schools. Turton HS is the following schools funding allocation up to tion of over 400 addition- older primary age pupils. sion plan. already increasing its have now agreed to 2020 by the Department al primary school places The council still re- Bolton Council is capacity having ad- working with seven create extra classroom for Education. at a cost of around £4.5 quires an extra £1m to mitted additional pupil cover all places as £1m schools in the borough space, Canon Slade, The council is also million, by drawing upon numbers last year. Sharples Academy, proposing to increase future funding from the has already been used to expand their capac- Initially, 229 further Thornleigh Salesian, primary school places Department for Educa- to increase extra special ity due to increasing Year 7 places will be cre- Essa Academy, Lady- where demand is high tion. needs places. 2 Bolton Scene Meet your councillors... Astley Bridge Farnworth Horwich and Blackrod Rumworth Hilary Fairclough Jean Gillies 01204 332131 Susan Baines Ebrahim Adia 01204 336343 or 07814378406 [email protected] [email protected] 01204 332371 [email protected] Surgeries: Sat 2 June and Sat 7 July, [email protected] 10.30-11.30am at Farnworth Town Hall (use Surgeries: Please contact for details Con Lab Please contact for details Con the rear door) Lab Surgeries: John Walsh Paul Sanders Ann Cunliffe 01204 332375 Ismail Ibrahim 01204 332216, 840118, 07936 084393 [email protected] 01204 337636 07836 363635 Surgeries: Sat 9 June and Sat 14 July, 10-11am [email protected] [email protected] at Blackrod Library. For issues in Horwich please Please contact for details FKF Con [email protected] Surgeries: Please contact for details Lab contact me for an appointment Lab Surgeries: Paul Wild Maureen Flitcroft Stephen Pickup 01204 337078 Shamim Abdullah 01204 591824 or 331957 07936 084393 [email protected] 07392 108236 [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Sat 2 June and Sat 7 July, 9.30- [email protected] Please contact for details 10.30am at Horwich Library and Sat 9 June and Sat 2 June, 10am to noon at High St Con FKF Surgeries: Lab Surgeries: Lab Sat 14 July, 10-11am at Blackrod Library Library. To arrange an appointment please call Surgeries: Fri 29 June and 27 July, 6-7pm at Drummond 07392108236 or email at shamim.abdullah@ Street Community Centre bolton.gov.uk Bradshaw Great Lever Horwich North East Smithills Mudasir Dean Mohammed Ayub Joyce Kellet Roger Hayes 01204 841008 01204 336493 07838 119522 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Please contact for details Surgeries: Sat 16 June, 10-11am at the Parish Lab Lab Con Lib Dem Church of St. Margaret’s Halliwell, Lonsdale Rd Stuart Haslam Mohammed Iqbal Kevin McKeon 01204 692115 Douglas Bagnall 01204 385096 01204 335620 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Sat 2 June and Sat 7 July, Surgeries: Please contact for details 9.30-10.30am at Horwich Library Con Lab Lib Dem Lab Jackie Radcliffe Madeline Murray Richard Silvester Carole Swarbrick 07935 835771 01204 694092 01204 467914 01204 492967 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lab Con Ind Lab Surgeries: Please contact for details Surgeries: Sat 16 June, 10-11am at the Parish Church of St. Margaret’s Halliwell, Lonsdale Rd Surgeries: Fri 29 June and 27 July, 6.30-7.30pm at Surgeries: Please contact to make an appointment – Harwood Methodist Church Hall, Longsight surgeries are at Park Lodge, Green Lane, BL3 2HP Breightmet Halliwell Hulton Tonge with the Haulgh John Byrne 01204 337878 or Cliff Morris Diane Parkinson Martin Donaghy 07917072264 01204 336329 or 331094 07799592604 01204 336239 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Every Mon, 5.30-6.30pm, by Lab Lab Con appointment only Surgeries: Please contact for details Lab Linda Thomas Shafaqat Shaikh Nicholas Peel Adele Warren 07775007853 [email protected] 01204 332090 or 07879 891129 01204 459949 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Lab Lab Surgeries: Please contact for details Surgeries: Please contact for details Lab Con Akhtar Zaman 07392 108252 Toby Hewitt Debbie Newall 07980 962826 07857 649806 Elaine Sherrington [email protected] 01204 391092 [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Tues 3 April, Breightmet Library, [email protected] Lab Con Breightmet Health Centre, Breightmet Fold Surgeries: Please contact for details Lab Lab Lane – please ring for an appointment Surgeries: Our next ward surgeries will be at Bolton Town Hall. Surgeries: First Monday of every month at Tonge UCAN Please contact Members Secretariat office on 01204 331094 for centre. Please contact for an appointment an appointment Bromley Cross Harper Green Kearsley Westhoughton North and Chew Moor Norman Critchley Hamid Khurram Julie Pattison Martyn Cox 01204 594311 [email protected] [email protected] 01204 331190 [email protected] Surgeries: Please contact for details Surgeries: Please contact for details [email protected] Lab Con FKF Con Surgeries: Please contact for details David Greenhalgh Susan Haworth 07415509103 Mark Cunningham Christine Wild 01204 335621 or 07813 386415 [email protected] [email protected] 07977 516192 [email protected] Surgeries: Please contact for details Surgeries: Please contact for details [email protected] Con Lab UKIP Con Surgeries: Please contact for details Nadim Muslim [email protected] Champak Mistry Liam Irving 07824363013 Zoe Kirk-Robinson 01204 397522 or 331320 [email protected] 01204 331020 Con [email protected] Surgeries: Sat 9 June and Sat 14 July [email protected] at 10.30-11.30am at Kearsley Mount Con Lab Surgeries: Please contact for details Lab Please contact for details Surgeries: Please contact for details Cottage, St Johns Fishers Surgeries: Crompton Heaton and Lostock Little Lever and Darcy Lever Westhoughton South Hanif Darvesh Robert Allen Rees Gibbon David Chadwick 01942 818526 0771 5048806 or 01204 336195 01204 451341 or 335096 07738 493122 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Sat 2 June, 10.30-11.30am at Westhoughton Town Hall Lab Con Lab UKIP Please contact for details Surgeries: Guy Harkin Andrew Morgan Sean Hornby David Wilkinson 01942 811932 or 336256 01204 331019 07583 725578 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Surgeries: Please contact for details Con Lab UKIP Surgeries: Please contact for details Lib Dem Bilkis Ismail Anne Galloway David Evans Anna-Marie Watters 07766 443052 [email protected] [email protected] 01204 335516 [email protected] c/o Bolton Town Hall, Bolton BL1 1RU [email protected] Lab Lab Lab Con Surgeries: Please contact for details Surgeries: Please contact for details Thurs 21 June, 5.45-6.45pm, at St Andrews Surgeries: Surgeries: Please contact at area forum meetings or contact direct Methodist Church, Tonge Moor Rd and Thurs 12 July, 5.45- 6.45pm, at Cobden St Community Centre, 22 Felton Walk Bolton Scene 3 What your council tax has to pay for Message NO one likes receiv- ing a bill, but it helps Band A bill of £1,130.67 from the if you know how your money is being spent.