The current level of fire cover at Kidsgrove is to be maintained following a review.

The future of the Kidsgrove Community Fire Station in Lower Ash Road came under threat as the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service reviewed their operations in order to try and save £1.7 million for the next financial year. The need to meet financial challenges due to cuts in funding and a decrease in demand (over the past 5 years fire calls in the Kidsgrove area have fallen from 383 to 85 per year) led to the review of how the Fire Service combines their prevention, protection and response activities. [Read more…]

Clough Hall Bowling Club has been awarded funding to install security measures to prevent anti-social behaviour and damage to the premises.

The Bowling Club is to be made more secure thanks to a £2000 grant from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund. They have suffered from disruption at the club in the past including an arson attack which damaged the pavillion and have frequent problems with youths breaking in to play football and drink on the site. The money will be used to install cameras and follows a £10,000 lottery grant three years ago, which was used to put in new toilets and a six-foot spiked fence. [Read more…]

Jon Honeysett MBE outlined the need for co-ordinating North Staffordshire’s canal projects at a recent Clough Hall Residents Association meeting.

Canal upgrading projects should form a wider Transport Manifesto as promoted by the North Staffs Pensioners Convention, based in Hanley, he suggested. At the conclusion of the talk, the Residents Association agreed to support the aims of the Pensioners Convention, which included possible future provision of two Tourism Day Boats, based at Etruria, for use between Kidsgrove and Stone, by Industrial Archeaology tourists and local community groups alike [Read more…]