Blackhall Clean-up postponed again due to poor weather conditions

We reported recently on the pages of this blog and on social media that the council and its partners had organised a week-long clean up campaign focusing on selected streets in Blackhall Colliery. This follows the walk-about we held with the police, neighbourhood wardens and council officers back in January (please see post dated Monday 15 January 2018 for background details).

This was originally scheduled to begin last week on Tuesday 27 February but was postponed until today because of the bad weather.

Unfortunately the continuing poor weather conditions and the toll taken on services and staff last week during the severe and disruptive weather has meant that the clean-up campaign has had to be put back another week and will now begin on Tuesday 13 March at 11.30am, meeting at the Aged Miners' Homes.

Please note the message received from the event organisers. We will publish further details as they are received closer to the start of the event.

Hi All,

Just wanted to make everyone aware that due to the inclement weather over the past week and the remaining poor conditions the decision has been made to push back Spruce Up Blackhall until next week.

I know the conditions are improving but staff are having to catch up on work that was missed due to the weather last week so it is felt there could be a higher impact next week with the full complement of staff

Apologies for this late change (again) but hope this is OK with everyone.