28Th Disability Awareness Day Set to Be a Cracker at Walton Gardens! the 28Th Annual Disability Tuesday 9Th July One of the UK’S Leading Inclusive on 01925 248894
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July 2019 July 2019 PB www.village-life.co.uk www.village-life.co.uk 1 July 2019 July 2019 28th Disability Awareness Day set to be a cracker at Walton Gardens! THE 28th annual Disability Tuesday 9th July one of the UK’s leading inclusive on 01925 248894. Awareness Day at Walton Hall 6.15pm – 9.30pm Frogtastic in the drama groups will be performing Friday 12th July Gardens on Sunday, July 14, is set Park - Arts Marquee, Walton Gardens: thrilling and entertaining songs from 7.30pm - 11.30pm DAD Mega Quiz to be a cracker. Featuring fantastic Tribute Artists their recent productions. Adult tickets Night, Charity Auction with Hot Food ‘Robbie Williams / UB40 / The 80’s & £8.00 and children’s tickets £5.00 Arts Marquee, Walton Gardens: More than 25,000 visitors are Swing’ plus special guests including from The Ella Team on 01928 713877 Teams of up to 8 people, hundreds expected to attend this year’s DJ’s from the famous Frogtastic or Kate 01925 240064. of £’s worth of prizes, fun quiz, great DAD, the world’s largest not-for- Club Night. Come and enjoy a great Thursday 11th July food, licensed bar and a charity profit, voluntary-led, pan-disability evening of Live Music, Dance Floor 6pm- 9.30pm – Children’s exhibition, which will once again and Licenced Bar, bring your own Party in the Park - Arts Marquee, auction. Tickets £8.00 (includes hot be hosted at Walton Hall Gardens. food. Advanced Tickets £6.00 call Walton Gardens: Warrington Wolves food). Contact Kate on 01925 240064. Organisers Warrington Disability 07875 142233 or online at www.ldok. Foundation & Warrington Disability For more details on exhibiting Partnership is proud to announce net/shop, £8 on the door. Partnership present a fun filled or attending #DAD2019 and ‘DAD their new joint principal sponsors, Wednesday 10th July evening for disabled children/young Week’ events, please contact Expanse Learning Group and Harry 7pm – 10pm - “Ella’s Summer people, their families and friends. Warrington Disability Partnership Fairclough Construction. Time Special” - Arts Marquee, Walton Sports, Arts, Dance, chill out and fun on 01925 240064 or visit www. A huge tented village will house Gardens: The Ella Performance Group, areas. Free admission: Contact Craig disabilityawarenessday.org.uk over 220 exhibitors - including equipment suppliers; transport; holidays; leisure and employment providers; and support groups and services - is set to attract visitors to travel from all over the UK and beyond. Inclusive Arts is just one of the highlights, plus a free fully accessible Sports Zone with have- a-go events, and a main arena and children’s rides and entertainment. Checkout the website for details on the free accessible Park and Ride service, plus a free bus service from Warrington Bus Interchange, British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters, scooter / wheelchair loans. The big day on Sunday, July 14, from 10am to 5pm - will be a fitting finale to a week comprising a variety of complementary daytime and evening events to savour, including: 2 www.village-life.co.uk www.village-life.co.uk 3 July 2019 July 2019 Editor Gary Skentelbery Production Editor’s comment Paul Walker Account Executives THE deadline to comment on the approval for one such distribution James Balme Local Plan has now passed along centre on prime green belt which was Advertising with the two planning applications thankfully rejected by members. by Eddie Stobart and Langtree to But more applications are rolling in, 01925 631592 option 1 build huge logistics centres on fanned by the fact officers believe this Editorial Green Belt land in the south of the is acceptable in a polluted town often borough. gripped by gridlock. 01925 631592 option 2 Planning law, while often Email Hopefully thousands of you have complicated for the common man, info@warrington- made your voices heard - and even is quite straight forward regarding more importantly hopefully those in green belt - no development unless worldwide.co.uk charge at the town hall will listen - “exceptional circumstances”. Websites if they don’t I have serious fears not Well creating wealth while sacrificing www.culchethlife.com just for our green belt but our general health is far from exceptional health and well being, particularly circumstances. www.frodshamlife.co.uk at a time when we have been told Nothing in these planning www.lymmlife.co.uk we have just over a decade to save applications does anything to improve www.village-life.co.uk the planet from the impact of green our health and well being. www.warrington.tv house gases! We have far more important issues across the town centre and right out During the consultation period in our town, with an out dated to Culcheth & Glazebury in the North. www.warrington- I submitted my concerns in a letter hospital, lack of recreational facilities The whole town needs our green worldwide.co.uk to the leader of Warrington Borough and not even enough sport pitches to lungs - and the whole town needs Address Council (prior to knowing about the accommodate our existing teams and better health and leisure provision. forthcoming closure of Fiddlers Ferry clubs. New Media Centre There are some shining beacons at Power Station next year) which I have So what is the solution, particularly Orford Park and Great Sankey and Old Road, Warrington reproduced below. in times of austerity? Woolston Community hubs. Cheshire WA4 1AT Hopefully common sense will Well how about borrowing some prevail - although the way the money with low cost interest rates like Let’s see one south of the ship canal political world is revolving at the you already have successfully done instead of lorry parks and warehousing. moment I am not holding my breath! to invest in business and commercial Come on Russ - you have the Distribution ventures and invest it in our green opportunity to leave a legacy we can Village Life is distributed freely Dear Russ Bowden belt, buying the land under threat all be proud of - or you can just allow to selected homes throughout During a run through some of our of development and then using it to the developers to continue ploughing the area as well as being beautiful countryside in Warrington it create health and leisure facilities and up our fields. available to pick up from various gave me the opportunity to clear my parklands. Thousands of new homes have head and do some blue sky thinking. This could be matched by some outlets, some of which are listed already been earmarked for green field As leader of Warrington Borough crowd funding, with those who can sites, with many more and employment below. Council the future of our town and our afford to, donating money to help fund green belt is within your hands and these projects. opportunities already planned in the town centre and brown field sites. Appleton: that of your controlling Labour Group Resident and parish council groups and the senior officers at the town have already demonstrated how they Let’s see how these go BEFORE we Village Hall, Co-op hall. can work together and raise funds to even think about building on Green Broomfields Leisure Centre Together you are tasked with challenge these plans to develop our Belt. ensuring our town provides for green belt - imagine having access to We have years ahead to meet Grappenhall: those in need of homes and good that money to preserve our green belt government guidelines and we have health together with employment and invest in health and well being. already seen the goal posts moved on Co-op, Community Centre opportunities. It could even be used to invest in Big Blue these - who is to say they won’t be As town’s go we are already doing solar energy and all weather sports moved again? better than many on various fronts. pitches, which help raise additional The birth rate is falling, the ageing Unemployment is relatively low and revenue and make it sustainable. High Legh: population is starting to level off, with Garden Centre, many of our jobs are filled by those Surely much more acceptable in our who live outside the borough. countryside than huge logistic centres the first signs of people dying sooner Village Hall So why exactly do we have to putting thousands of extra vehicles on than expected due to various health surrender our green belt land on which our roads and destroying our green issues brought on by obesity and Lower Walton: we depend for the very oxygen that fills belt for ever. general unhealthy living. One Stop Shop our lungs? I see in the local plan it states it Let’s put the foot on the brakes Over 40,000 people each year are is only 10 per cent of our green belt a little with all this proposed dying from pollution related illnesses being given up - but that is 10 per cent development, take a deep breath and Stockton Heath: and Warrington has been identified by too much. enjoy our precious countryside so we Library the World Health Organisation as one Thousands of people in our town can keep on running for years to come Stockton Fryer of the worst polluted town’s in the are suffering from asthma and other country. health issues which are made worse by without breathing in more toxic fumes. Panni’s So why are we even entertaining pollution. I am sure you will get the support St Rocco’s Shop the thoughts of huge logistics This is not a NIMBY issue in the of the vast majority of people in our developments on Green Belt land? I south - it is our whole town under town if you can look at and adopt this Stretton: say entertaining because your council threat, from Lymm through Appleton common sense policy.