Builders • press on with plan for estate


A LEIGH building firm is pressing on with its iplan to put up houses on land next to Clitheroe’s Moorland estate. fn the wake of objec­


tions from people who live on the estate, the Ribble Valley Council’s Develop­ ment Sub-Committee m October — against the advice of its officers — turned down a scheme for 54 houses. It considered the number is too many to the acre and that there would be traffic problems. Now the firm, Brosley


to the county council, it would be too dangerous to put another access from Pimlico Road. But it would be no more dangerous than the existing Moorland Avenue-Moorland Cres­ cent junction, she claimed. The Moorland estate


She said that, according


residents feel that the increased traffic generated by the owners of the prop­ osed new properties will put local children in peril and there will be problems at the Moorland Road- Pimlico Road junction. Mrs Speak said that the


Estates, has come up with a revised plan to build 50 houses. Although the Sub-


Committee has yet to con­ sider the latest application, Clitheroe Town Council, which broadly has been opposed to the develop­ ment, has already had a look at it and on purely planning grounds can see no objections. Clerk to the Clitheroe


county surveyor consi­ dered the builders’ scheme acceptable, provided that road markings and signs on the estate were improved. “They’ve now put down


Parish Council, Mr Leslie Telford, told the Adver­ tiser and Times that, hav­ ing been assured that there are no sewage or highway problems, his council agreed to the plan, but considered there should be another pedest­ rian access to the estate, next to Rock Mount. The revised scheme is


not on the agenda for tonight’s meeting of the


But members of the Moor­ land Pimlico Residents’ Action Association — formed to fight the Leigh firm's proposals — have had it outlined to them. Eight members of the


Borough Council’s Devel­ opment Sub-Committee.


committee spent the after­ noon talking to a represen­ tative of the firm, but so far as they were concerned nothing new emerged to make them change their opposition or allay their fears. On behalf of the Associa­


tion, Mrs Barbara Speak sa id th a t th e y had suggested to the builders a compromise scheme for 30 houses. “But we were told they could not afford to build so few . . . there would not be a market for the prices they would have to charge." Mrs Speak commented


white lines — it’s the only estate in Clitheroe with them — but that to us is an admission that the juction is dangerous. It eases the situation now, but with another 80 or so cars likely to be coming in and out it will not make things any safer." Mrs Speak added that


Don’t hide new offices


IT appears that there has been little com­ ment about the scheme for the Ribble Valley Council offices behind Church Street. 1 Surely nobody, least of


dale Pool project it first consulted the ratepayers at a packed public meeting. It was only after receiving public support that it went ahead with planning the pool and ways and means


all the council, will be sur­ prised? With folks deeply involved in Christmas and New Year preparations it was a stroke of near geni- ous to invite public com­ ment at a time when thoughts were firmly fixed in another direction. Even so, it is quite clear


of raising the cash. That was real public participa­ tion.


time for the Ribble Valley t Council to think again and


I hope that there is still


hear something from the d o rma n t Clit he ro e members.


from the details given in the Advertiser and Times that the council is commit­ ted to going ahead with the scheme as it stands. The exhibition, in present-day jargon grandly referred to as “public participation,” is of no real value as a means of changing opinions. Wh e n C l i t h e r o e


B o r o u g h C o u n c i l embarked on the Ribbles-


Promise of lorry park


when residents first went into the matter, they had been informed that the sewers would be adequate for the new houses, but could not take the surface water as well. At the council meeting


Water Authority had a scheme for a new sewer by the side of the ICI works which would take effluent and surface water from the new houses.


s een refused, it had been tated that the North West


will be adequate when a new system is built, pre­ sumably at the ratepayers’ expense, but as things stand they are inade­ quate.” Mrs Speak said that


“Of course the sewers


while the latest proposals were not to their liking, they would have to wait until the outcome of the D e v e lo pm e n t S u b ­ c om m i t te e ’s meeting before deciding what to do next.


While they had been aware two years ago of


, firoposals to build on the


on two aspects of their pro­ test . . . traffic and sewer­ age arrangements.


and, they had certainly not been given the facts which had emerged in recent months, otherwise they could have presented their protest very diffe­ rently.


Tories prepare to choose Euro-MP


COUNTY Councillor Graham Woodcock, of Helmshore, has been elected chairman of the Conservative Council for the new Lancashire East Euro-Constituency which comprises the eight Westminster Constituencies of Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe, Darwen, Heywood and Royton, Nelson and Colne and Rossendale. County Coun. Woodcock is chairman of the Rossendale Conservative Association.


MONEY STICKS


SOME months ago Whal- ley upholsterer Mr E. Clarkson, handed to Coun. Jimmy Fell, a large bag of pre-decimal copper coins which, over the years, he has salvaged from three- piece suites sent to him for renovation. The coins were to be sold


Whalley, a former chair­ man of the Clitheroe Con­ stituency Association, has b e e n e le c te d vice- chairman. Miss Mary Dut­ ton, agent to the Clitheroe Constituency Association, has been appointed agent of the Euro-Councii, which will be administered from the Clitheroe Constituency Office in Railway View, Clitheroe. The first task of the


Mr Brian Cunliffe, of


ment of the Rev. Graham Vickers, the coins, some 15lbs in weight, have been sent to the BBC Blue Peter Medi-Bike Appeal with the object of provid­ ing well-equipped bicycles for medical auxiliaries in underdeveloped regions of Africa.Thus, two deserving charities will benefit from Mr Clarkson’s generosity.


CLITHEROE


NATURALISTS SOCIETY THURSDAY,


JANUARY 11th THE ROCKS” “READING


MR R. T. DARBY (Langho)


RJbblesdale school 7-30 p.m.


seemed remarkably “thin on the ground” although one interested party aid give £5 to the church — and returned the coins. Now, with the agree­


for the benefit of the local Methodist Church but, unfortunately, buyers


arranged during January and it is hoped to announce the name of the successful candidate at the end of the month. A council compris­ ing 25 members from each of the eight Westminster Constituencies will make the final selection.


Council will be to select and adopt a Conservative Candidate for the election on Thursday, June 7th. Interviews have been


Paintings


on show PASTELS covering a wide variety of subjects by Simonstone man Mr Ken­ neth Crabtree will be on show at Whalley Library from Saturday. His paintings, which will


be on view until January 2(jth, however, are mostly


landscapes and animal por­ traits. Mr Crabtree, who is


v *"


married with two grown­ up sons, w,orks in the printing department of Mark and Spencer, at Burnley. He attenaea Burnley Art School as a youth.


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THIS picture, taken by accident in which a Advertiser reader Mr J. Barlow, shows the scene ori the Clitheroe/Whalley bypass on Friday after an


year-old Liverpool woman died, vv hen her car was crushed by an articulated lorry. She was Mrs Doreen


Kathleen Campbell, of Downham Road, Liver­ pool.


The lorry ran over the central reservation near


the main Clitheroe exit and turned over onto the car after swerving to avoid another vehicle. The road was blocked for four hours.


-t


at which the Leigh com- any’s application had


ARISING from the scheme to tidy up the quarries at Salthill, I look' forward to assur­ ances that a previous pledge will be kept — to provide an area for the parking of heavy lorries, so that there obnoxious fumes will be kept away from residential areas. If evidence is needed let


th e p u b l i c h e a l t h a u th o r i t ie s rise from their beds before dawn as these vehicles start to warm up. But let them choose a morning with


little wind for it is then p a r t i c u l a r l y t h a t t h e


dangerous fumes hover like a cloud of doom. These “ modern gas


hat possibly we might


will be the first major civic building in the town centre for some 60 years and Clitheroe is entitled to something that will add distinction to its centre and of which people can be proud. A million pound building should not be hid­ den away down a ginnel. Incidentally, who will pay for the making up of the


The offices, when built,


Lion archway are the words “Private road.” Will there be in the market place one of the new RVBC signs indicating “Council offices down the ginnel?”


ginnel? The ratepayers of the brewery? Chiselled in the White


offices ought to be in Church Street, with a frontage that would har­ monise with the town hall and the library and thus befitting an official Con­ servation area. A frontage which, as I have said, would add distinction to the town.


The entrance to the


suggested site did any one consider that there could be problems with rock? When the electricity sup­ ply was br ought to Clitheroe in the late 20s the workmen had to spend weeks drilling into rock in


And in choosing the


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR


Christian Aid: The facts


MR FLEMING in his letter challenges the work of the World Council of Churches, in its support of the “Guerilla warfare” and “Liberation move­ ments” but unfortunately displays a very real inaccuracy by aligning this with the work of Christian Aid.


p Christian Aid is not a


of Churches as Mr Fleming implies.


art of the World Council


chambers” are such a threat to health that, in December, Parliament spent time discussing the matter. One statement in the


of f icial document of Christian Aid entitled “Christian Aid and a cur­ rent controversy.” Is Christian Aid part of


May I quote from an


the World Council of Churches?


House was that the fumes were capable of causing mental retardation. It could be that the “heavy vehicle school” are the first to be really affected. We don't want it to hap­ pen to the rest of us.


PRIORITY


of Churches is what it says it is, a council of Churches, or denominations. (The Roman Catholic Church always sends consultant observers to all major meetings). But surely Christian


No. The World Council


Fossil-hunters may need restraining


YOUR report on the future of Salthill Quarry is most reassuring and the Ribble Valley Council is to be commended on the proposals for its use.


amenity to our town. For many years its geological features have attracted the attention of geologists, professional and amateur, from far and wide and also from overseas.


Salthill is an unique


these features is special­ ised and peculiar to this particular area, one may, within the confines of the quarry, see splendid exam­ ples of reef or bank forma- tion to g e t h e r wi th associated features; con­ temporary boulder beds and, of more recent date, a spectacular glaxciated pavement providing evi­ dence of the Ice age. In addition, the quarry


While the nature of


area provides an attractive natural park with fine sci-


enic views in all directions.


ance of rubbish and some fencing, the development of salthill should not prove excessively costly. In view of the increased pressure of visitors, however, which this development will undoubtedly attract, some restrictions on fossil­ collecting may be disirable. But it should not prove impossible to designate specific places where col­ lecting would be per­ mitted. I am confident that the


Apart from the clear­


united Christian agencies concerned to help the needy of the world. But — and it is an all-important “but” — it is wholly up to the Board and committees of Christian Aid whether or not they respond to any World Council appeal or adopt any project that comes on a World Council list.


Christian Aid is part of a world-wide network of


to the programme to com­ bat racism? No. The Board has laid down that in no way, direct


Docs Christian Aid give


or indirect, shall one penny of Christian Aid money go


Aid has strong links with the World Council? Emphatically “Yes.”


to this fund. In August 1978 the


World Council’s officers made a grant to the Patrio­ tic Front of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia Christian Aid immediately made a public statement “formally and without qualifications” dis­ sociating itself from the grant.


Fleming is attacking the work of Christian Aid in his letter, it has presented an opportunity to make a clear statement to the people of Clitheroe in this very vexed matter and I trust to give confidence again to people to support the work of Christian Aid. Copies of the leaflet


Although I feel sure Mr


gests a grey building — it could almost be a factory — and this greyness seems to be a feature of council thinking. Consider the new' houses and the old people’s home in Low Moor, and th e new houses in Clitheroe. Why grey? If there is


Moor Lane, Castle Street and Church Street. The artist’s sketch sug­


one aspect of which all Lancashire towns need to rid themselves it is grey­ ness. It may have.been all right in the 1900s but is wrong in the late 20th century. Finally, is it not strange


th a t while the RVBC spends months looking for a site, a multiple firm with headquarters more than a hundred miles away collars a capital site in Castle Street?


BYSTANDER Clitheroe


L e t ’s s e e s o m e s e l f - c o n t ro l


THE 1978 season of “peace on earth, good­ will to all men” has now ended.


wonder, by the season of gr e ed, se l f - int e r e s t , jealousy and envy which has characterised so many British “workers” and which has so automatically followed in recent years?


Will it be followed, I


the proud possessor of a fine motor car and colour


“Workers” who, each


television set, fill in their football pools each week, take a Continental holiday each year, and cry “We’re not getting a living wage,” when what they really mean is: “We don’t have sufficient money to indulge ourselves in luxuries to the same degree as the fellow in the workshop across the road.


money than George, then good luck to him. He prob­ ably deserves it. And if George has a warm and comfortable home, a table well-spread and a bed to sleep in, with good clothes upon his own and his fami­ ly’s backs, how dare he try, “I’m not getting a liv­ ing wage,” and hold his bosses and the country to ransom?


If Charlie earns more


referred to are available. I am sure that your church minister can arrange to obtain you a copy, or please contact me directly.


THE REV. K. BROADHURST,


Ribble Valley Christian Aid Committee St James’s Rectory, Woone Lane, Clitheroe


development of Salthill on the lines proposed is a wise undertaking and that it will prove to be an addi­ tional asset to Clitheroe.


S. WESTHEAD,


“Crossall,” Claremont Drive, Clitheroe


LETTERS for publica­ tion must be accom­ panied by name and address as an indication of good faith, even if the writer wishes to use a nom-de-plume.


just another name for blackmail. For God’s (and the country’s) sake, let us this year see a little self- control and self-denial mong the industrial work­ ers of this country — not a denial of the reasonable necessities of life, but denial of the urge to acquire more and more non-essential luxuries.


Most strikes today are


spirit latent in all men is demonstrated throughout the land in the last two weeks of December.


That there is a better


press it for the remaining 50 weeks of the year?


Why do so many sup­


bourliness and generosity which characterise the Christmas season continue throughout the year and all the years to come. Not the tinsel and the glitter but the true spirit of Christian­ ity and Britain will soon become a first-rate nation once again.


Let the love, good neigh­ PENSIONER Fatal crash on bypass


Rigid----- control needed to curb spending-


YOU reported last week that Clitheroe’s Salthill quarries are to be tidied up by using a “cash windfall.” In fact, cash does not fall


in the wind and the scheme will be carried out not “. . . at the Government’s expense” but will be financed by the taxpayer. I was amused, in this


Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, January 4th, 1979 3. 1


Guiarnm Standard:


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plans for the new council offices, you quote the plan­ ning officer as claiming that there was little com­ ment either for or against these (and then went on, incidently, to add a little “puff” that “. . . comments were made that the build­ ing will be something that the town can be proud of”). The absence of comment and the small number of viewers is understandable for a number of reasons.


BUSY


tant, the public is con­ cerned not so much with th e det ai l s of some prettily-drawn plan as wi th the quest ion of whether or not any new building is required and the precise ultimate cost. Secondly, and, no doubt,


Firstly, and most impor­


qui te accidentally, the plans were put on show at the busiest time of the year for the public and traders. Thirdly, although the


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plans were claimed to be on show from Tuesday December 12th, a notice indicating where the plans wer e located did not appear until towards the end of the week and the visitors’ book, to which reference is made, did not make its appearance until the following Monday. As for making objec­


tions to the detailed plan ning application, the public is well aware that these will be considered by a committee acting as judge and jurv in its own cause in view of the fact that the


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correspondence columns to the reservation of 50 park­ ing places for the use of the


s r


0 leaving the council and its


the town centre. Finally,


appointed plans.


with the inconvenience pf temporary-parking-only in


townspeople staff,


your report on the Salthilli quarry scheme states that the


it is noted that VI-SPRING 5ft.


consultants to


£11,000 and it stood


at


recently on display, were produced outside of


that the


planning staff, increases


being demanded, one won are


FRANK S. L. MOON King Street, Clitheroe.


Ribble Valley planning office.


a


already been appointed to deal with the council office structure


C o n s u l t a n t s


is under­ plans


cost of the


With our present for which constantly


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