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Balancing the budget By far the biggest challenge for St Helens Borough Council in 2020 will be to close a projected £20.4 million funding gap so it can deliver a balanced budget. Senior Labour politicians have been working on budget proposals – described by council leader David Baines as “drastic” – for several months now. The council had originally been developing an emergency budget in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw all of its services come under review. This work has carried into next year, partly due to emergency measures taken at the start of the pandemic and additional government funding. Cllr Baines warned in November that libraries, leisure services, children’s centres, waste services and highways maintenance are all under threat.
St Helens Council to unveil plans to close £20m budget gap PROPOSALS aimed at closing a £20 million budget black hole will be unveiled by St Helens Council next month. All of the council’s services have been under review in recent months as part of work to develop an emergency budget in response to Covid. Work on this has carried into next year, partly due to emergency measures taken at the start of the pandemic and additional government funding. St Helens Borough Council leader David Baines said the authority was working on “drastic” proposals to cut £20 million from its budget.
Monday, December 28: 10am–3pm (St Mary s Indoor Market only) Tuesday, December 29: 8.30am–6.00pm Wednesday, December 30: 8.30am–6.00pm New Year s Eve: 8.30am–4pm New Year s Day: Closed Saturday and Sunday January 2/3: 10am-3pm Monday, January 4: as per previous times Symptom-free (or lateral flow ) testing will identify people who may have the virus but not know, who could then be spreading Covid-19 to others. If you’ve travelled back to #StHelens and Merseyside from London/SE England before government changed the rules, please get tested, check you’re clear, and help to stop the spread. Find out more: https://t.co/hMRlD6TjTF#StHelensTogether#LetsGetTestedpic.twitter.com/2QDbQMd0KM David Baines #StHelensTogether (@davidebaines) December 20, 2020
st helens A ‘GAME-CHANGING’ partnership that will aim to transform St Helens over the next 20 years has finally been sealed. Back in March, St Helens Borough Council agreed initial terms to enter into a long-term partnership with the English Cities Fund (ECF). The two sides set to work on proposals for a 20-year partnership that would pave the way for the regeneration of various parts of the borough, starting with St Helens and Ealrestown town centres. It has now been confirmed that the ECF and the local authority exchanged a 20-year development agreement earlier this month. The partnership will now spend the next six months on masterplanning to understand the borough’s needs and priorities, along with identifying the potential first phases of regeneration to be developed in the two town centres of St Helens and Earlestown.