More than 600 Lansbury Park residents signed a petition calling on Caerphilly County Borough Council to regenerate the community centre on the town estate.
The estate, with around 900, properties, is in the St James ward which was declared the most deprived in Wales by a Welsh Government report.
Residents have rallied around to bring the community together and handed the petition in with Cllr Elaine Forehead at a full council meeting on March 10.
Cllr Forehead called on councillors to support the petition.
She said: “We councillors are constantly trying to save money while saving services but these residents are having to save money to feed their children and they are doing a fantastic job.”
One of a number of indicators upon which poverty is measured, and which helps to place Lansbury Park at the top of the list of poorest wards to live, is the
`physical environment` of he ward.
Councillor Elaine Forehead and her Community supporters, proposals, for their Community Centre is a `no brainer` for Caerphilly Councillors when they consider her motion. Particularly in the absence of much else in way of novel positive action to lift this otherwise lively community out of its unenviable position of abject poverty. Councillor Forehead should be supported by Councillors and those officers who are responsible for tackling poverty and regeneration in our communities, very difficult to think that they will not give her that support??????
One of a number of indicators upon which poverty is measured, and which helps to place Lansbury Park at the top of the list of poorest wards to live, is the
`physical environment` of he ward.
Councillor Elaine Forehead and her Community supporters, proposals, for their Community Centre is a `no brainer` for Caerphilly Councillors when they consider her motion. Particularly in the absence of much else in way of novel positive action to lift this otherwise lively community out of its unenviable position of abject poverty. Councillor Forehead should be supported by Councillors and those officers who are responsible for tackling poverty and regeneration in our communities, very difficult to think that they will not give her that support??????