Community leaders have demanded answers after a ‘serious environmental offence’ killed thousands of fish in a 300m stretch of river. An investigation is now under way into the incident, which happened on Friday, July 23 in the River Kent in the Wattsfield Road area of Kendal. Officers from the Environment Agency identified significant pollution in the river and retrieved thousands of dead fish, including minnows, stone loach, sticklebacks, salmon par and white-clawed crayfish, for evidence. The incident has been considered as a Category 1 offence, which is the most serious type of environmental incident, and officers believe they have identified the cause of the event.
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Both Lancaster City Council and South Lakeland District Council have elected new Leaders following recent Annual Meetings, with Councillor Caroline Jackson and Councillor Jonathan Brook becoming new Leaders at Lancaster and South Lakeland respectively.
Despite the changes in leadership all three administrations continue to back The Bay unitary bid, with leaders of Barrow Borough Council, Lancaster City Council and South Lakeland District Council saying a Bay unitary alongside a new North Cumbria authority covering Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland and Eden is the best solution for local communities.
In a joint letter sent today (1 June) to Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Councillor Jackson, Councillor Brook and Barrow Borough Council Leader Councillor Ann Thomson write: The Bay has strong cross party support in each of our local authorities and as the new
A multi-million-pound project to reconfigure Kendal Town Hall has been completed. The £4.9million refurbishment of the historic building has included moving the main South Lakeland District Council reception area to the front of the town hall, and the opening of more spaces inside the town hall for use by community organisations. It marks the first phase of a project to improve the efficiency of the council’s main accommodation in Kendal as part of the authority’s Customer Connect transformation programme, which aims to save over £8million pounds over ten years by restructuring the entire organisation. The second stage involves work to remodel the offices in South Lakeland House, to make available half the office space to let to other organisations and the creation of a ‘Mintworks two’; a new enterprise centre for start-up businesses, to build on the success of the council-run Mintworks hub on Highgate.