New Residents Association for Clearwater Village

Residents of Clearwater Village, a housing development in the Marsh House area of Darwen, have recently set-up their own residents association to help unite the local community.

According to the first of their monthly newsletters there has been a distict lack of communication between residents since dwellings in Clearwater Village were first occupied in 2003. The intention of the residents association is to develop a better community spirit and hope their regular newsletter will help achieve this by keeping residents informed of any local developments.

Clearwater Village was completed in 2005 and contains 88 houses and 38 apartments and residents first investigated the idea of setting up their own residents association in September 2008. An initial meeting was arranged on 26th September to see if there was sufficient support for the idea. A representative of Blackburn with Darwen borough coucncil was in attendance at the initial meeting which confirmed a high level of interest in the formation of a residents association.


Less than 2 months have passed since their first meeting but Clearwater Village now have everything in place to form an official residents association with full recognition from the local council. A number of residents have volunteered themselves to fill the various roles of the association which plans to get to work straight away by addressing the adoption of highways and drains.

In addition to persuing adoption of the highways by Blackburn with Darwen they also hope to encourage the developer to address the defective lighting in the Village. It is hoped that the highways and drains will be adopted by the end of the year.