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Residents may wish to air their views in a survey on local government reorganisation. The 15 current councils in Lancashire are working together to submit proposals for unitary councils to Government by 28 November 2025. Several possible options are being considered, ranging from two to five new unitary councils that will replace the 15 Lancashire authorities. The survey was launched on 2 September and will be open for four weeks. https://www.givemyview.com/lancashirelgr

Volunteers are needed urgently to register as Street Wardens for the Silverdale Emergency Resilience Group (SERG) to help vulnerable people in their area of the village if an emergency occurs and the emergency services cannot get to the village. If you are interested to know more, please attend the next meeting of the Silverdale Emergency Resilience Group on the 23rd August, 2 – 4 pm at Silverdale Village Institute. For more information contact: jenny.webster@silverdale-pc-lancs.gov.uk

IMPORTANT – Silverdale Parish Council needs you to get involved in creating an Emergency Plan for the village. This is resulting from a central government request that all communities become resilient in the face of unexpected major events when the Emergency Services may not be able to respond immediately. The next meeting will be held at the Silverdale Village Institute, Springbank LA5 0TE on Saturday 26th April 2-4pm. Please attend if possible if you would like to help, either in one of the roles described, or as a ‘street warden’ to help deliver information and reassurance to your neighbours. At the meeting, Richard Gargini from Wennington Parish Council will tell us how they have created their plan and acquired emergency equipment without having to raise the parish precept.

Thank you to everyone who responded to the Housing Needs Survey that Silverdale Parish Council circulated in February, and to Stephanie Gorner and Joe Hannett at the Rural Housing Enabler Service for producing it and analysing the results.

In summary: Twenty-one households are in need of alternative accommodation within the next five years.  Nine houses, nine bungalows and seven flats are required, plus four adapted/ supported housing arrangements, with some respondents indicating more than one option. Eighty per cent of the respondents said they were not registered with the local Choice Based Letting Service (Housing Options Advice Service, run by Lancaster City Council) .

Some of the respondents’ comments about providing affordable housing in Silverdale include:

• It would enable me to have secure accommodation in my old age.
• I think Silverdale would be good for new housing to be built.
• Silverdale is very short of first-time buyers’ small accommodation.
• Small, small properties have gone to Air BNBs – could be rented to local people instead.
• We both work and volunteer in the village; however, we cannot afford to live here.
• Dedicated low-cost housing is needed.
• My son needs to live independently.

The next step for Silverdale Parish Council is to contact Housing Trusts who may be interested in working with the Parish Council in forming a viable, long-term plan to meet these housing needs. For the full survey go to: https://silverdale-pc-lancs.gov.uk/the-parish-council/surveys-reports

A Monday to Saturday return bus service from Silverdale to Kendal  via Arnside is starting on the 31st March. The timetable shows that this will be an extended service for bus 552. Lancashire County Council will be incorporating the 552 service into its timetable booklet for the 51, which will include a slight revision to the bus service 51 before summer – the last journey from Silverdale (20:08 from Holgates) will run via Silverdale village rather than direct along Park Road.