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Letters to the Editor
Expensive property killing off the
villages
I- REFER to the recent article-in the Advertiser and Times reporting statements by Councillors Bob Ainsworth and _Joyce Lilbum i at a meeting - of the Development Control’ Sub-committee, that the: planning policies of the Ribble Valley Borough Council were killing-, the villages, in the valley. , | .
Rimington and ; Middop would like to qualify these statements.
The Parish ■ Council of
ible for killing villages it is the high cost of proper ty and th e lack of facilities.
If anything is respons
there are about 12 houses for sale in our village — hot one of them at a price which a young, newly- married couple could afford. Because of this the young people of the vil lage have to go to the nearest town to find a property. which '• they can afford to buy.
At the present time
two houses of the kind which were proposed at the Development Sub committee would not solve this problem.
The building of one or
this day and age to ensure that young people of the parish can remain in the village where they were brought up, after they marry, is to have a suffi cient stock of small, two- bedroom cottage-type properties in the village.
The only, real way in
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be within the means of young couples, and the Parish Council would wholeheartedly welcome them, whether built pri vately or by the borough council.
These would certainly
young married couples in the villages we would be a long way towards solving the decline of pupils in the village schools.
Parish Council will be on Monday next in the Memorial Hall, Stopper Lane, Rimington (8 p.m.) and any member of :the Development Control- Sub-committee would be welcome to attend.
The next meeting of the
would see that the affairs of the parish are con ducted in a very respons ible manner by persons who have the well-being of the parish close to their hearts.
At that meeting they
tion submitted is .given very thorough considera tion on its merits, as 'are all the other problems which arise.
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ton and Middop is far from dead. In fact, it is very much alive and, with; the right kind of support from the District Council, it will remain so.
The. village of Riming-:
COUN. MRS DOROTHY DUCKWORTH, Chairman, .Rimington and ;.
Middop Parish Council ■ ■
Let’s be generous
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COUN/MISS M. A. ,
. Ribble yalley Mayor.1. ; 4 >f ^ • cLETTERS; under ■ a
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those who gave their lives or who have suffered irqury,serving our country — if it were not for this suffering we could well be faced with an ■ authorita-1
IT is a pity that Coun. Jimmy Fell had to revert to-sarcasm in last week’s issue of the - Advertiser and Times when replying to Coun. Bob Ainsworth’s excellent letter on local government staffing.
casm is the lowest form of wit. From' the same edi tion. I note that .Clitheroe Town Council has elected a new town clerk. .One; wonders-if this appoint ment is necessary in view of the fact’that this body is, to the best of my knowledge, repsqnsible only for allotments and making planning recom mendations to the Ribble Valley Council.
As we . all know, sar ,
doubt that local govern ment reorganisation has merely served to add an
extra-.layer of costly bureaucracy to the burden borne by the ratepayers.
T h e re ’ seems l ittle VALLEY RESIDENT.
Socialist planning
■ readers to give generous- sly to this most worthwhile cause. v' „ .
; IN answer to your cprres- ’ pondent’s-"question- last j week(about- socialist- plan- ’ ning i during -the last. , Labour :Government,- I- ■ would ; pointr out', that •• it ; resulted in more'people in ; employment- ■
^nom-jle-plume cannot be 0,accepted .without ' the 'Nname .and address, of the ■. &vniter?j. as a token of ' good faith.-.“Resident of: ‘2'Billington" is asked to supply these details.^
‘ rate of'inflation.--. ?•-; | '. Eighteen - months - of, j Tory : misrule; has resulted ! in -:half a ^million “ people ilosing' their jobs'- andt.‘ a :doubling .of'• the -rate i of ; inflation:' ■ ’ -
and1 a I lower
(ALAN BARTON,1' . - ' ' " '• • Press Officer; / / ’ l ' ’ ' i Clitheroe LabourjParty, il8 Jubilee Street,' •Read'"'-’
If we could retain our •Valley. are ' 'M? savings?
IN', last week’s letter's column,' Coun. Jimmy Fell applauds .wliat11 believe is overstaffing, overspending, overpaying and underworking in the Ribble>Valley. Council.
rectly, that L have , not attended one single meet ing-of the council’s Per sonnel Committee. Why? Simply because I am . not on-that committee and if I attended , as . an observer I would not be allowed to speak. . ' ■ .-
He writes, quite cor
'help'~others - without asking for anything in return. What is Coun. Fell’s motive? When I look at the published list of attendance, travel and subsistence: allowances, I see my critic has claimed a total of-£663.57 for the period between April, 1979 and September this year. From 155 attendances he
My motive for being on the council is to try to
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Misguided, unworthy attack
LISTENING to my talk ing newspaper tape, I was horrified and disgusted to hear the diatribe directed against Coun. Bob Ains* worth by Coun. Jimmy Fell in his letter in last week’s Advertiser and Times. . ‘ However much I disag
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' Secretary Miss Pamela Jackson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ronald Jackson, of . ‘‘The Royds,” Chat- burn, married solicitor Mr : Peter Milligan Lavery at' Christ Church, Chatburn, on Sunday.
reed with Coun. Ains worth’s views on local government spending I would have been ashamed to make such an attack. Such, sarcastic and per
has claimed £218.57 for travel and subsistence. but, of course, he has to travel all those miles from Whalley and back. Since reorganisation the
Ribble Valley has neither increased in area nor population, yet well I 're member former Tory council leader Bill Flem ing saying that consider able' savings would be made once the new coun cil offices were built. .■ Well, they are built, al
though they leak and slates tend to fall on cars parked in spaces allotted to staff only. So where are the
salaries and council office running costs are, to me, staggering. So to suggest' that Ribble Valley staf fing levels are an example to other councils must surely be far removed from fact.
savings? The increased staff
tiser and Times will publ ish a full list of the money claimed by each coun cillor.
I. trust, that the Adver . ....
ing reading, but above all the ratepayers of the Ribble Valley must now realise that a complete change of councillors is needed at the next elec tion if any reduction in s taff is to be made. Always remember it is your money we are spend ing — or wasting! '
. It should make interest '.f
COUN. BOB AINSWORTH
Goosebutts Lane, Clitheroe
Costly extra
youngest son of Mrs M. J. Lavery, of Kings Drive, Hoddleston, near Darwen, and the late Dr G. T. Lavery. The bride, given away
The bridegroom is the •
sonal'remarks were un- gentlemanly and un worthy, however one may disagree with a fellow councillor’s views. Your letter, Jimmy, has
made you fa r . more enemies than friends.
always place the correct emphasis,- but I would agree with that excellent talking newspaper reader in ' in te rp re tin g your thoughts when writing your letter and can only assume you got out of the wrong side. of the : bed after one of those many heavy, free dinners the night before. The tone did not sound
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AN appeal to save part of Whalley’s heritage has been made this week.
as though you .were angry, which might have provided some: sort of excuse, but sarcasm is something in which no re spected journalist in dulges. If,. however, it was in
field Lane — said to date back to the 16th century — is the subject of a plan ning application for con version to a house.
Portfield Barn, Port- Wins at show AT the national champion
tended to involve some misguided ty p e of humour, a gift in which you are so - adept, then can only say it was a com plete flop. Your letter is a “Whalley window” which requires a new wash leather. CHARLES MUSSON 15 Pimlico Road,. Clitheroe
ship show of The Poultry Club, held at Alexandra
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I AM sorry if my comparison of “cities, towns and villages” has upset “Town Dweller.” To be perfectly honest I have never regarded Clitheroe as a typical town — more a rather large village which I hold in deep affection and try to serve as dilligently in absentia as I do the village in which years.
mendous stretch of the imagination to take my description of “tower blocks, vast complexes of mu ltiple s to re s and crowded streets” as ap plying to the castle town. I much prefer H. V. Moreton’s description of Clitheroe as “half in Lan cashire and half in fairy- iand.”
It surely requires a tre - •
and cities I had in mind those , places where church evensong is held in the afternoon because congre gations of elderly people walk home in- dread of mugging once darkness falls; those places invaded fortnightly by hordes of football" hooligans - and where a cheery greeting is assumed to have under lying sinister implications. I must a dm i t-m y “Window” becomes
When I wrote of towns I have spent the last 50
clouded with nostalgia when I look back at the town where I was born and spent my first 19 years'; where two of my forebears held office' as chief citizen and one became the second Free man of the former borough.
my affections with Whal ley where, incidentally, I would have’ been im mensely proud had the Ribble' Valley Council built their new offices; theywould add grace, dignity, and distinction and prove the most valu able asset to any com munity. And plaques bearing
It holds equal place in • •
the coats of arms of both dear- places • hang side by side on our hallway.
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Ribble Valley Council’s Development Sub-Com mittee deferred its deci sion when Whalley rep resentative Coun. Mrs
But members of the
Sheila Maw said that the barn was a listed building and should not be. lost to our heritage.
Deputy Planning Officer Mr Peter Nock, wants to hear from groups in terested in maintaining the barn in its present state. He says his department
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