BURY Council is to undertake a review following the announced closure of Burrs Activity Centre.

This week it was announced that the activity park is to close its doors on December 31 due to insufficient funding and rising running costs.

The council will now host a host a review into how the activity centre could support Burrs Park in realising its full potential.

Pat Jones-Greenhalgh, Chief Executive of Bury Council, said: “It is hand in hand with our residents that we have developed our fantastic park and it is just about to get even better. We are very grateful to Burrs Activity Centre for its commitment over the past twenty years in providing an excellent service and sad to see the doors closing at the end of this year.

“We are incredibly proud that we have retained Green Flag status for more than a decade, opened the new East Lancs Railway Station at Burrs and extended the Caravan Club site as well as installing a new sculpture.

“We have a bright and exciting vision for the future supported by the Burrs Strategy adopted in 2015, and a review of the activity centre will now take place to look at the wider role the centre should play in Burrs Country Park and how it is sustained.”

Councillor Alan Quinn, Cabinet Member for the Environment, said: “Thousands of children have enjoyed Burrs Activity Centre, and the Council would like to take this opportunity to formally thank the staff, volunteers and directors of Burrs Activity Centre Ltd for all their hard work, dedication and commitment over the last 20 years and wish them well for the future.”

“In line with the Burrs Strategy, adopted in 2015, a review will now be undertaken by the Friends of Burrs, the Burrs Strategic Development Group and Bury Council, all of whom are fully committed to making the most of Burrs, retaining an outdoor pursuits offer within the park, and creating a sustainable facility fit for the future.”