Hyndburn Borough Council leader Cllr Marlene Haworth has used £1.5k of her £20k Leader's Budget to fix the issues
A Conservative East Lancashire council leader leader has allocated £1,500 to repair a historic clocktower and restore its chimes in an apparent U-turn.
The 1921 clocktower was built to celebrate the work of scientist John Mercer who invented and gave his name to ‘Mercerised’ cotton cloth. But following the intervention of Great Harwood, Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors Conservative County Councillor Carole Haythornthwaite, Cllr Haworth has reversed her decision.She has used £1,500 from her special £20,000 Leaders Budget to pay for the work and is working on plans to establish a future maintenance budget for the clock.
Overton ward's Cllr McKenzie said: “I welcome thus U-turn by Cllr Haworth but the council should have paid for this anyway. It looks like the civic society will still have to find £500 for the work.”
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