Kirkby Lonsdale Town Team

February Update

The Kirkby Lonsdale Town Team has started the consultation process which will lead to development of a 10 year Place Plan for the Town. Your views are important to us and there will be many opportunities over the next month to give your views before a draft plan is prepared for public consideration.

The first event involved representation at a stall in St Mary’s Church during the Christmas Fair. Perhaps helped by two free hampers (one for children and one for adults) all donated by local businesses, we received lots of requests for questionnaires, completed questionnaires and 57 post-it notes. Our younger residents had some great ideas…we need a Pizza Express, McDonalds and a Costa Coffee!!

We had a further stall at the Community Fair on 10 January with a further 22 post-it notes and visitors taking questionnaires or the link to the QR code.

By the time you read this we will have had a Drop In session at the Methodist Church on 22 January.

You can give your views via email or by clicking here. You can pick up and return questionnaires at the Tourist Information Centre or the Library.

During February members of the Team will be contacting a wide variety of local organisations and groups to discuss the future of the Town with them and their aspirations for the future.

In March the Team will be represented at the Thursday market in the square, this will be on 5 and 12 March. On 26 March we will be presenting the results of the consultation process at the Lunesdale Hall, more on this in the next issue of AKL.

To date the Team’s activities have been funded by a grant from the High Sheriff’s Fund and a very generous donation from the Art Society of Kirkby Lonsdale. Significant funding will be required as the Team prepare the formal Place Plan and implement or support a series of projects specified in the Plan. A formal request for grant was submitted and considered by the Town Council on 14 January. We applied for £5,000 to enable the completion of the consultation phase and the development of the Place Plan. The Town Council has granted us £2,000 and we intend to reapply to them at a future meeting so that we are able to properly complete this piece of work, which we believe is so important to the future of the town and its prosperity.

If you can’t make it in person, you can email us at kltt@kirkbylonsdale.co.uk or complete our online questionnaire.