Local community and council get mucked in

Carlisle City Council, Milbourne Street residents and members of the Christian Fellowship (based on Junction Street) joined forces on Thursday 24 April in an effort to make their local area ‘cleaner, greener and safer’.

Work started at 9am and included cleaning away graffiti, replacing a fence and making some general improvements works to a piece of communal grassed land opposite the Knights Inn public house on Holmes Terrace.

Around six members of the City Council’s Green Spaces team  provided help by local volunteers, all willing to muck in and help make improvements to their street.

As a ‘thank you’ to all those taking, a lunchtime barbecue was  planned by some local residents. This was arranged for around 12noon.

The improvements worked are funded by the City Council and are expected to cost around £1,000.