PARISH council chairman Annie Makepeace has issued a plea to Wincham people to come together as one village.

Annie’s call came as a resident called for improvements to a playground in Chapel Street similar to those carried out at the Linnards Lane playing fields.

Chapel Street and Linnards Lane are at either end of the village, and the call for improvements prompted Annie to ask residents to forget the idea of higher and lower parts of the village.

“Let’s stop talking about Lower and Higher Wincham because no-one else does,” said Annie at the latest parish council meeting.

“We don’t use the terms – we are one village.”

The meeting was held at Witton Albion football club to enable those residents without transport from the Chapel Street area the chance to attend parish council meetings, which are normally held at Wincham Community Centre.

The meeting was attended by 18 residents, and further meetings could be held at the club because of the level of interest.

“We have not had meetings at this end of the village before, and have had a meeting here tonight, which is a start,” said Annie.

Mrs Dockney asked the meeting: “Why is it that the children down here don’t have anything, and yet they have all that play stuff up there in the higher part of Wincham?

“Our children are just as important down here, and I want to know why they do not get the same service?”

Annie said the improvements at Linnards Lane were undertaken at the only available large area the parish council had access and control over. The council does not own the playground in Chapel Street.

“We want to do the same at the Chapel Street end as soon as the opportunity allows us to,” she said.

“If we could we would have an enormous play area for everybody’s children in the middle of the village where we now have a derelict pub. However at the moment we can only develop areas we have control over.”

Annie presented a bouquet to Mrs Dockney at the meeting to mark her 85th birthday.