THREE areas will come together for the first time for a joint crisis meeting over rail electrification work.

Groups from Church Road in Farnworth and the Hazlemere estate in Kearsley have arranged the meeting and invited those affected by the ongoing work in Moses Gate.

Complaints centre around damage to property, disruption at unusual hours and the movement of large heavy goods vehicles on relatively small streets.

The attendees hope to get the attention of Bolton’s three MPs, Chris Green, Yasmin Qureshi, and David Crausby, to help reach Network Rail bosses.

Mark Cunningham, ward councillor for Kearsley who lives on Church Road and has been heavily affected by the disruption, will chair the meeting.

He said: “We needed to do things differently, it’s time for us all to pull together. As a group we can do something.

“I used to think we were isolated but this is not the case.”

The councillor will be joined by residents of streets near to Moses Gate, where there have been more than two years of complaints over the state of the roads and ripped up trees, and the Hazlemere estate.

Lisa Coote, who lives on the Hazlemere estate said: “We understand that the work needs to get finished and we are quite happy about that. But it seems that some of the workers on the estate have got no respect.”

The meeting will be held on April 26 at Trinity Church in Farnworth at 7.30pm.