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Newbarns Forum Area

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Community Activity

County Councillors and officers work in partnership with a number of agencies and residents groups including Police, Highways, Barrow Borough Council.

Residents raise various issues and the Forum takes up these issues and directs them to the appropriate authority or agency with feedback being given to residents. The Forum is working in partnership with the Police to tackle the issue of traffic speed in an area of Newbarns.

Forum Meetings

This Forum holds issue-based meetings for both residents and partners/agencies. If there is no Forum meeting forthcoming, and an issue needs to be addressed urgently a Forum will be arranged to respond to such issue(s).

The Local Committee Public Participation Slot from 10.00-10.45 allows residents to gather informally over refreshments to raise issues with the local County Councillors.

Forum Area

Estimated population for the ward is 5,822 which is 1.1% of Cumbria's total population. There is a higher percentage of 15 - 59 year olds in this area.

The ward has a population density of 20.1 persons per hectare which places this ward in the `urban' category.

This area is one of the more affluent parts of the town with a large percentage of the nearly 100% of the 2,411 households owned outright or in the process of being bought. 5.8% of the housing tenure is Local Authority rented.