Burnley Neighbourhood Management Team

There are 3 key areas of work for the Team:

1. The Neighbourhood Management Team helps residents and businesses get involved in their neighbourhoods. Our job is to ensure residents receive timely and accurate information about the changes in their areas.
2. It is also our role to help residents put forward their viewpoints about the services of the Council, Police, Central Government, Elevate and Health Services provide. Influencing these plans, policies and strategies of these agencies based on resident feedback is really important.
3. We co-ordinate resident panel or forum meetings. The aim of these meetings is to exchange information, find out what is going on in the area and have more input with the public services delivering in the area. These meetings are held on a six weekly basis and information is routinely circulated to all senior managers at Burnley Council and other partners such as Lancashire County Council and the Primary Care Trust. Click here for dates of future meetings and minutes.

Neighbourhood Managers work with the Police to make neighbourhoods a place where people feel safe. Attendance at local PACT (Police and Communities Together ) meetings is a way that we input local priorities.

Communicating with residents is a key aspect of our job. For people that can't get to meetings or just want information we put important information in Neighbourhood Notice Boards. We have put 12 notice boards in the 3 Elevate areas. We also help produce an Elevate Newsletter every six weeks that aims to summarise progress of the Elevate programme.

Neighbourhood Management encourage and support residents in the delivery of 'hands on projects' that benefit their area. So for example, Elm Street Traffic Calming Scheme. This area had become a traffic trouble spot with speeding drivers. Meetings took place between residents, local businesses, Lancashire County Council, Anti Social Behaviour Teams and Neighbourhood Management to address the problem. This has resulted in fitting special speed devices, a hard hitting Speed Awareness Campaign called Think Twice Tributes and a survey of residents to test out possible solutions.