What the Parish Council does.

The Parish Council is given an annual budget from Wigan Borough. From this precept it is committed to:

Maintain the Memorial garden and playground, replacing deteriorated or broken equipment and regularly checking its safety.
Maintain the car park and organise the waste disposal units placed there.
Administer and maintain the allotments and Bowling Green at Whitehall in conjunction with the Horticultural Society and various Bowling Clubs.
Help make the streets, and open spaces of the parish brighter and safer by planting out tubs with flowering plants.
Ensure that the grass in the Memorial Park is regularly cut, that the children's playground is cleaned and regularly checked for the safety of the play equipment.
Provide 'doggie-bins' in all our public spaces - (and the council would like to know why women owners are so much more meticulous in cleaning up after their dogs than are men owners!)

Parish Councillors serve on the governing bodies of the primary schools in the area and are represented on committees such as the Youth Club and the Recreation Ground Tustees.

In conjunction with Wigan MBC and the Groundwork Trust the Parish Council is committed to a continuous programme of repair and maintenance of the fourteen miles of footpath in the parish. In 1995, as part of its centenary celebrations the council published a pamphlet, Shevington Parish Paths. These are available in the local library.

Wigan Borough councillors who represent Shevington:
Cllr Angela Bland
Cllr Debbie Fairhurst
Cllr John O'Neill

They meet regularly with the Parish Council to discuss matters of mutual interest. For example: the Community Safety Forum, a Wigan Borough initiative,now meets regularly to discuss ways of making Shevington more secure by looking at inexpensive, and practical ways of improving community safety. For instance, the provision of a new street light can be more effective in making a stretch of pavement safe than an expensive CCTV installation.

Future Plans
We would like to have a Parish Council building of our own and have indicated to the Borough Council that we would like to purchase the old school building at Miles Lane Primary school. It could be a building that could be put to a multitude of uses: an informal gallery for local artists, a small recital and drama centre or as a meeting place for local organisations, as well as the Parish Council chamber.

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