Save Burnley's Neighbourhood Management!

Join us in showing your overwhelming objection to Burnley Council’s unnecessary relocation of our Neighbourhood Managers without community consultation

Join us in showing your overwhelming objection to Burnley Council’s unnecessary relocation of our Neighbourhood Managers without community consultation

Save Burnley’s Neighbourhood Management: NM are a very successful team providing a service to the regeneration areas of Burnley, these include Burnley Wood, Leyland Road, Bank Hall, Duke Bar, Stoneyholme with Daneshouse, Healey Wood and Trinity.

The team have provided over the last few years support, motivation and advice creating some of the strongest, positive community relationships the town has seen. They have been instrumental in many groups implementation, some of those resulting in some of the most constructive merges providing innovative and beneficial service, support, cohesion, promotion of health and improvement of residents lifestyles and economic situation. They have planted the seed for a positive and much needed change.

The team are under threat because the Council Officers have DECIDED that they wish to move the managers between areas. The success of NM is that the workers have been able to work a single area and forge trusting relationships with residents, commanding mutual respect and giving the confidence to people to open up and voice their concerns and needs in order that their issues can be addressed.

They have provided the foundations for change in Burnley, not a new market place, or road or railway, but the actual seed for the changes we all need to make to attitude with regard to our health, economic situation, our friends and neighbours, our streets and our environment. We should value any such change and Council Officers should not be able to destroy any such asset without the consultation and consent of the people of Burnley.

The Council as in the past will rely on the apathy of those residents and their willingness to do nothing and accept whatever, in order to force on us their wishes as opposed to those of the communities who are the only ones who know what is best for them.

The communities have lots of groups; most of us are voluntary, giving our time freely with the desire to promote change and make all our lives better. We have many volunteers but everybody can make the difference simply by supporting causes like Facebooks "Save Burnley’s Neighbourhood Management" please take the time to support us all and give the credibility to the volunteer residents groups to force the paid representatives and public servants into giving us the democratic right to full consultation on matters that directly affect us all.

1. Burnley Council offers no reasons or justification to the community for their “management decision”

2. Residents have voiced objections; however Burnley Council says the community should not be given the opportunity to influence the decision

3. Neighbourhood Managers have built a rapport with local residents and groups, the proposed move will take from months to years to rebuild these

4. Burnley Council says that they will roll this out over a period of time, but are offering no timeline for the changes

5. Funding for Neighbourhood Management is only secured until March 2011, after this time it is expected to be cut completely; why make changes now?