Reports have been published setting out proposals for how Burnley Council will meet its financial challenges over the coming years, whilst continuing to deliver high-quality services.

The papers also look ahead over the years to 2024, showing how Burnley Council continues to face shrinking budgets, and setting out a broad approach to balancing the books.

A range of detailed savings are being made across all the service units in the council. Most of these have been programmed in for some time, and result from ongoing changes to the way that services are delivered.

Councillors are set to receive an update on the community safety priorities for their borough over the coming years.

Burnley Council’s executive is being asked to approve a draft community safety plan which highlights the main priorities it should help tackle in the borough until 2021.

Those priorities are identified as:

Burnley’s prestigious sponsorship-funded business awards ceremony will be taking place on the 20^th June 2019 at Towneley Hall.

Event organisers Burnley Council and Burnley Bondholders are proud to announce the valued sponsorship line-up for this year's event.

Burnley Council leader Mark Townsend visited the town’s sorting office to see first-hand the operation of delivering Christmas post and to pass on early season’s greetings to its dedicated, hardworking staff.

Councillor Townsend was shown around the office by delivery office manager Simon Figg and was introduced to the postmen and women who will be pulling out all the stops to sort and deliver mail in the busy Christmas period.