POULTON'S main shopping complex, the Teanlowe Centre, looks set for a facelift next summer.

Wyre Council's environmental schemes sub-committee has included much-needed improvements to the outside of the 1974-built centre in its draft programme for the forthcoming year.

A report to the committee, which meets on Monday (November 1), says the area next to the Post Office and car park "is certainly deserving of improvement, given its very busy nature and the poor impression it currently gives.

"Work could include new paving, seating, street furniture and planting. Consultation with local people and businesses would be very helpful."

It also wants to focus improvements on the back of the centre, where buses stop, and on the public conveniences.

An enhancement of Poulton's town centre was among top-demands at a recent public meeting - hosted by Wyre MP Hilton Dawson which attracted 150 people - along with a new traffic-scheme to cut road-dangers in the town's narrow streets.

However, warns the report, though the Teanlowe design-work can be started this financial year, the £44,000 scheme is unlikely to be launched until after April 2000 since public consultation will take time and another scheme - a £44,000 facelift for Knott End's Barton Square - is already further advanced.

Knott End Town Council is working to provide a Millennium Clock in the centre of the village, and Wyre Council has been working closely with villagers to enhance the scheme with environmental improvements.

"This work has resulted in a significant scheme, upgrading the whole of this area for the benefit of both locals and visitors," says the committee report.

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