If you’d like to attend the Local Area Partnership meeting for Prestwich (LAP) - the next meeting is Tuesday 15th January from 6.30pm at St Monicas’s High School.  The meetings now run differently than our previous Area Board. Now we have the business meeting of the partners who represent Prestwich (Councillors, PCT (Primary Care Trust partner rep), Police rep, Schools rep, Council Officer rep, Faith representatives (at present, one personfrom the Council of Churches and one from the Jewish Rep Council), local Businesses Representative, Tennants/Residents Group’s rep etc..we still have places for more community representatives.) first, followed by question time from residents and then presentations about things happening in our area. Meetings are approximately every 6 weeks.

The major happening - is the beginnings of research towards plans for a new-look centre of Prestwich village - URBIS has been commissioned to investigate and consult what we need to happen to the Longfield/area/shops etc… in order for change for the future.  Bury Rock development and the new Radcliffe Centre has been before us in the queue for re-development and it’s now our turn.  So we all need to start visioning and thinking what we need for the centre of our community i.e. health/leisure/sport/shops/library/heritage/art/open spaces/parking/sustainability/environmentally sound/pedestrian access …