Local road races

Jimmy Ross announced at a previous Hale Parish Council meeting, that the road race committee is no longer able to stage the 3 races in the borough.  They will continue to support the annual Runcorn to Hale 5 mile road race which normally takes place on Easter Sunday from the Runcorn/Widnes bridge.  This is mainly due to the high insurance and Policing costs that are now involved.  He also commented that this is the reason also that we had no parade for the 2006 Hale Carnival this year.  He advised, that it would be easier to keep the carnival compast in Hale Park.  He said that nearly all public events of this nature up and down the country had gone the same way.

Health Care/Doctors Surgery

The Halton Priamary Health Care Trust had a consultation day in Hale Village Hall on the 19th of June.  This was to inform villagers of the up-coming plans which may lead to the closure of the surgery. House holds who use the surgery in Ivy Farm Court  will receive a questionair which should be filled in and returned.  The questionair will ask if those residents who use the surgery wish it to remain open in Hale where it is, or to move health care over or around 1 mile away in Hale Bank church/access center, or move teh surgery to Widnes

Hale Garden Center

The final greenhouses on the Hale Garden Center site are now being dissmantled.  The main greenhouses that were roadside, were taken down over 10 months ago.  Now the smaller greenhouse situated in the yard behind the shop, is now being taken down.  All of the greenhouses where sold to buyers for use elsewhere, and were or have been re-erected as fully up standing greenhouses once more.

The garden center shop is now in use by Wollton Glass, the ground were teh greenhouses were is beleived to be under development for 1 dwelling, which will be situated east of the Liverpool Airport safety zone