A recent Brigg Town Council survey indicated that the
majority of people living in the hamlet of Scawby Brook wish to remain in Scawby
parish, rather than switching to being residents of our town.
However, the latest issue of North Lincolnshire Council's
NewsDirect newspaper contains an article headed "Transformed Brigg leisure
centre opens to public."
It refers to "Ancholme Leisure Centre in Brigg" having
undergone a £1m transformation.
This is nothing new: You quite often see the centre, these
days, described as being in Brigg.
However, the leisure facility - built in the 1970s - is over
the border, in Scawby parish.
Going back 30-plus years to the era of the late lamented
Lincolnshire Times newspaper, based at 57 Wrawby Street, Brigg, all new
reporters were instructed that the leisure centre is NOT in
Brigg.
A certain prominent councillor representing Scawby kept a
close eye on this. And no-one could blame him for doing so.
Brigg Sugar Factory - its official name - was still going in
the 1980s and, despite the descriptive term, was also in Scawby Brook, as was
the then Brigg Sugar Factory clubhouse and sportsground, off Scawby
Road.
Today the official "crime stats" - covering a mile radius
from Brigg police station - include the large Waters Edge housing
estate. Yet it is part of Broughton
parish.
The Brigg Town Council survey to which we made reference
earlier found that many people living on Waters Edge favour a shifting of the
boundaries so they can now live in Brigg.
But a good many legal and administrative hoops will need to
be jumped through for that to happen. And so far the survey is as far as things
have progressed.
Brigg Blog will keep you informed of any further
developments.
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