Kirkby Lonsdale Town Team

March Update

The Town Team has been set up to secure funding for projects which local people believe will make a difference to the quality of life in the town, and that’s why your view counts. The Town Team consists of representatives of all the town’s key organisations, from the schools and churches, to the Town Council and the Chamber of Trade, to the Community Cupboard and Community Interest Company, amongst others.

So that we can create an actions-based ten year Place Plan for the town, which focuses on the key issues in our community, we have been undertaking a town wide consultation based on four questions:

1. What is missing in Kirkby Lonsdale?
2. What are the key things we should be improving?
3. What are the large and small things which will make a difference to the town?
4. What would make the biggest difference to the town?

Thank you to the many people who have already given us their answers to these 4 questions, either online, through the paper questionnaire, in person at our recent events in the Methodist Church and St Mary’s, or through the consultations we have been undertaking with local groups.

Some common themes are emerging and we are holding an informal ‘drop in when you can’ session in the Bective Room at the Lunesdale Hall between 3pm and 8pm on Thursday 26 March. 

We will be highlighting the key ideas from your views and members of the Town Team will be on hand to listen further, and explore these views, or to hear about any further issues you may wish to raise.

We want whichever ideas are included in the town’s Place Plan to be fully representative of what local people would like to see, so please do take the opportunity to attend if you can. We will be serving refreshments and you can stay for five minutes or two hours!

If you are unable to attend in person, but would still like to give us your views, its not too late. You can pick up a paper questionnaire from the Tourist Information Centre (and return it in the box there), or click here for the online questionnaire. 

And if you’d prefer to speak to one of the Town Team in person, please email us at kltt@kirkbylonsdale.co.uk or telephone 07484 751160 and we will arrange a time to have a conversation with you. 

We’ll also have a stall on the Market from 9am to 3pm on Thursday 5 March and Thursday 12 March so do please come and see us.

You may have read in the press recently that the Government has launched the first ever UK Town of Culture competition and the Town Team is going to submit an Expression of Interest (the first stage in the application process) on behalf of Kirkby Lonsdale by the end of March. With the town’s lively cultural scene, we believe we have a great story to tell.