Regretfully the Britannia Coconut Dancers are not in a position to perform their traditional boundary dance on Easter Saturday April 16th 2022. This has been brought about by circumstances relating to funding of road traffic management for our day which has been withdrawn by Rossendale Borough Council (RBC). It is the statutory requirement of the local police to provide traffic and crowd control for "traditional public processions" under the town police clause of 1847 which our Customary procession falls under from within their existing budget. They have persistently refused to do this and hence the need for Rossendale Council to step in and provide the considerable costs of hiring a commercial Traffic Management Company to support our annual boundary dance procession. Although this funding is now withdrawn, we should still express our gratitude for this support in previous years. The Team have been notified in writing of RBC’s decision by the Chief Executive Officer, we feel the notification came rather late which left us with a situation which would mean our boundary dance may be unlawful without approved traffic management support. Despite meetings to resolve matters of funding & related issues in the time available we are unable to find a way through and are extremely disappointed with the way this has been handled, we are sure that our community and businesses who so looked forward to this day after two years of covid will share our disappointment. The Britannia Coconut Dancers feel very let down by Rossendale Borough Council and its handling of our tradition which has survived over 150 Years.