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The LovePrestwich Big Clean will officially end next week – but the campaign to clean up the town still goes on. The Community Payback team will hit the town centre on November 3 and 4 for a final go, then head to the Holyrood Road/Heys Road/Bury Old Road Area to tackle graffiti on shops, businesses, backs [...]

I was very disappointed to come to work this week and receive calls about a graffiti attack around Whittaker Lane and outside Prestwich Library, I’m sure that you are too. If anyone reading this email can accurately give me a time over the weekend that they can say these crimes may have been committed [...]

A month-long Big Clean of graffiti and garbage started in Prestwich on August 3 and already it has had big results. A hit squad from Community Payback has been working to remove graffiti, clean alleyways and “grot spots”, clear litter and carry out community projects. Councillor Sam Cohen, Executive Member for Safe and Secure Communities, said: “The [...]

A month-long Big Clean of graffiti and garbage starts in Prestwich on August 3. A hit squad from Community Payback will be removing graffiti, cleaning alleyways and “grot spots”, litter picking and carrying out community projects. This pilot project by the BurySafe partnership will start in Prestwich Village and then move to each ward in the [...]

Prestwich Councillor Tim Pickstone spent Thursday afternoon with senior officers and councillors from Bury Council and with the local police looking at, and hopefully finding solutions to, the problems we currently have with graffiti in Prestwich. Here’s his report: Councillor Dorothy Gunther, the Council’s Executive Member for Environment, kindly accepted an invitation from me to see [...]