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Exciting plans to revamp a Leyland playground have overcome a major hurdle - with South Ribble Borough Council Cabinet Members approving remediation works needed to make the upgrades possible.

Credit union, Unify, has opened a branch in Leyland with the support of South Ribble Borough Council.

We're delighted to have been Highly Commended at the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) Regulatory Excellence Awards.

The Mayor of South Ribble played host to the now-famous Towngate fire heroes on Wednesday evening (9 June). Meeting them in the new dementia-friendly Peace Garden in the grounds of the council's Civic Centre in Leyland, Councillor Jane Bell, the Mayor, thanked the three brave citizens for their dramatic heroic intervention after they entered a burning set of flats on Towngate in Leyland on Thursday 20 May to raise the alarm and get residents - some of whom were fast asleep - out of the building safely.

South Ribble Borough Council has awarded more than £21,000 to a range of community projects across the borough. An initial six bids are set to benefit from match funding via the Community Hubs Boost Fund - with further support available later this year.

South Ribble Borough Council is delighted to have secured a grant of £816,127 from the Football Foundation towards the creation of a new Playing Pitch Hub for the borough.

Work to convert the property began in 2020 and boasts seven one-bed flats, and two two-bed flats.

The results for the St Ambrose and Longton and Hutton West b-elections and the Lancashire County Council elections are in. Find out who has been elected here.

Following today's announcement by Buckingham Palace, the Council will be joining the entire nation in a period of mourning.

Under the management of South Ribble Borough Council leisure centres will re-open on 12 April.