Consumer Alerts - June 2025

Beware scam jet washing services The Service has received reports of cold callers knocking on doors Over Wyre and in the Goosnargh area, offering to clean gutters, clean the moss off roofs and jet wash driveways.  In one incident the householder...

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Consumer Alerts May 2025

Beware cold callers offering tree services The Service has received reports of cold callers knocking on doors offering tree services in the Wyre area.  Be wary, often such cold callers will escalate an initially low price, cut down your favou...

Consumer Alerts – April 2025

Bogus roofers cold calling in Clayton An elderly couple in Clayton Le Moors were cold called by a roofer who claimed there was a hole in their roof, a two day job to fix.  The fraudster refused to take a cheque or bank payment and insisted on...

Winter Service Briefing 2024/25

What is the winter service? Lancashire County Council has a legal duty to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, that people can use the highways safely without being endangered by ice and snow. This means we do everything we can to keep traffi...

Consumer Alerts – December 2024

Cold callers offering tree services A vulnerable resident in the Lancaster area agreed to cold callers offering to cut back some shrubs, The traders then escalated the job to include work to the back garden increasing the price to over £7,00...