A revamped fishing
lake designed to accommodate people with disabilities will be officially opened
by Shipley MP Philip Davies.

Mr Davies, will visit
the site at
Cottingley
New Road

on Friday 8 June and meet staff from the Environment Agency, Bradford Council’s
Adoption and Fostering Unit and Cannons Health Club.

The health club has
loaned the site to help the Adoption and Fostering Unit find somewhere for
youngsters and adults to fish.

But the lake needed a
lot of refurbishment and the Environment Agency has used money collected from
rod licence sales to fund improvements to open up the fishery in this urban
area.

Work done has included
installing a pathway around the lake, building fishing platforms where people
in wheelchairs can fish in safety, and free advice on how to manage the lake’s
fish stocks.

Environment Agency
fisheries officer Pete Turner said: “Urban fisheries such as this are an asset
to the community because it means that people wanting to fish don’t have to
travel far to enjoy the sport.

“They’re easy for
families to get to without having to spend money on petrol or public transport
and so we were more than happy to help improve the promote this important
leisure facility in Cottingley.”

Sarah Patrick,
Adoption and Fostering Unit Manager, said: “We have run a fishing club for a
number of years for looked after children, adopted children and those whose
parents are adopters or foster carers. This has proved to be immensely popular,
so this new resource is very welcome.”

Shipley MP Philip
Davies will visit the site to perform the official opening. The Conservative MP
is a member of House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport.

He said: “This is a
tremendous new facility at Cottingley which will benefit many people locally. I
am incredibly grateful to the Environment Agency, Cannons and Bradford Council
for all their hard work together to bring this project to fruition.”

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