Burnley 22331 (Classified)
Clitheroe 2232b (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Cldssified) Why plan for
hall deserves my support
AS a result of the intense public interest in the matter of community facilities for Billington and Langho, I think it is appropriate that, as a
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tally has been held by Bil- lington Parish Council over the years, is that the needs of the community would be best served by two community halls, one in Billington and one in Langho. Had there been any
serious attempt by the parish council or any other community-based group to
satisfy this need, as a Rib- ble Valley councillor I would have done my best to persuade the borough council to support this objective. However, since this has
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and this week’s official openinn will show what a marvellous job it is.
quite clear. My view, which inciden
not happened, I will fully support the efforts of the Billington and Langho Community Association to provide a single facility of a larger and better type adjacent to St Leonard’s’ Church and School. I do not disagree with
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any of the statistics put forward by Coun. Carr, whom I have known for many years, but I do dis agree with his interpreta tion and conclusions. He is right when he says that such a facility is only sup ported by a minority of the electorate. However, if he pursues
this argument to the ulti mate and examines elec toral statistics, he will find it impossible to justify any of the services provided by
to the genuine Unsolicited, views of the people I represent,Tn person, by letter, by telephone and, most of all, at parish or public meetings, and on this particular issue the majority of people who have contacted me support the community nail project. Although I myself do not consider it to be the ideal answer, I will now give it my full support. I was firmly convinced
any council or indeed any Government and it is very rare for any person to be elected by a majority of the electorate. As a councillor, I listen
by the enthusiasm of the public meeting and have been impressed by the hard work of this minority, of people, who have raised over £20,000 in a short time, purchased a plot of land, engaged architects to draw up plans and got planning permission. They are trying hard to
provide a facility which, like the swimming baths in Clitheroe, will only be used by a minority, but will nevertheless be a valuable asset to the com munity at large.
C O U N . B ILL FLEMING, Barnacre, Longsight Road, Langho.
Who are absent supporters?
IN reply to Coun. Carr and Coun. Mrs Robin son, I feel I would like the proof of Coun. Carr’s statement when he says: “The council lors who voted against the motion are very representative of all age groups of the parish.”
ple at the public meeting? If people feel strongTy against a proposal they will make every effort to make their views known.
Where were these peo Neither Coun. Carr nor
Coun. Mrs Robinson stated that the approxi mate charge on each household would be 35p per person eligible to pay community charge.
well-needed community centre? Billington parish has no facilities for the old, the young, youth clubs, recreational or educational meetings, as both school halls are fully used.
Is this a lot to ask for a Coun. Mrs Robinson
states that she is not against a community centre in principle. If this is so, why has she done everything within her power to prevent it? Why isn’t she helping to
raise funds, so the parish council does not have to be approached? Or has she any ideas of her own for raising £80,000 in the next year? I put forward that theirs
is the minority view of the parish, not the people waiting a community centre.
MI S S M I C H E L E EVANS, 3 Lowerfield, Langho.
Folly of my elders
IN reply to Coun. Carr’s letter regarding the fund ing of a village hall, I would like to say I strongly refute his allegations that I am showing contempt for my elders.
him no right to launch an attack about the blindness of youth.
Just because my point of view differs from his gives
proportion of the people of Billington and Langho now find themselves at odds with their parish councillors.
It is because of the folly of my elders that a good
reply, which is in stark contrast to the nasty letter I received from a certain councillor’s daughter (a copy of which has been deposited with the editor).
Having said that, I do appreciate his honourable
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I AM writing to express my thanks to the council lors who voted against the community centre plan. I ilive in the village of Billington, the mother of two
people; You have my vote in the next election; councillors.
VERONICA LYNE (MRS), - ■
Glenburne, ■ Whalley Road, ■ Billington..
Once again, thanks for listening to the majority of . .
teenagers who are wholeheartedly against the building of a community centre and also, when it comes about, the increase in the poll tax they will have to pay. In a nutshell, my family and I will not support the building of the scheme.
place for replies is through the columns of this paper and not sneakily through the letterbox at midnight.
I would like to remind this person that the proper
AMY M. ASTRIDGE (MISS), 143 Pasturelands Drive, Billington.
Totally disgusted
I AM totally disgusted at Billington Parish Council’s decision not to help with the community centre for Langho and Billington. I think that Bulington and Langho communities need somdwhere to go at nights and during the day
on school holidays. Being a teenager in Billington, I know there is nowhere to go, apart from the park, and we have to
be off there at 9 p.m. now. Usually we go to someone’s house, but that drives
some parents insane. As Billington Parish Council does not want the
community centre, will it provide somewhere else
for us to go after 9 p.m. It is not only teenagers who need a community
STEPHANIE BAILEY (Aged 15), Whalley Road,
Billington.
centre; there are mothers with young children and senior citizens, as well as many of our parents, who would benefit.
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LAST Thursday I was present with 22 other members of the public at the Auction Mart council meeting, held in . th e new c o u n c i l chambers. Well into the meeting
I looked on as two members of the council, without as much as a “by your leave,” took out their weeds and started to proceed to “light up” as the phrase
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were, a f te r a sh o r t spell, all sitting in a cloud of smoke, which did not do much for one or two people, who developed a throaty cough, and many .a dag ger was looked in the direction of the two offenders. Altogether there were
goes. Up in the gallery we
making agrand total of 50. The two offenders represented four per cent of the people there, so how come t hi s
obvious minority did not seek the permission (as once it was the cus tom not mnay years ago) of the majority to light up these foul- smelling weeds? Come on, you pollu-
approximately 25 coun cillors and 25 visitors.
tors of the air, don’t think it is your sole
right to just light up and expect everyone around not to mind. Ask first, then, if you have to, go and smoke
visitors gallery there are "no smoking” signs. W h y
discrimination? . t
T O T A L ANTI-SMOKER.
Our beautiful countryside is constantly under threat
I WAS interested to read in the “Advertiser and Times" of October 5th that the chairman of the Rural Development Commission, Lord Vinson, was unim pressed by the London- based Pilot Properties plans for the development of the former Barrow prin tworks site, which he pro nounced to be too large. On the same day, the
tions has to be right. At present,the planners are
winning the day and the quality of rural life is decreasing. To quote Chris Patten in the Foxley Wood case:
“Most of the important Council should listen to choices are decisions which the voice of the people. can and should be made locally to reflect the values BEN BROWN, which local communities Jay Cottage, place on their surround- 2 Chorlton Terrace, ings.” The Ribble Valley Barrow.
two news items might just be the turning point in the struggle between the plan ners oh one side and the environmentalists and local people on the other side. Our beautiful Ribble’
national Press announced that Mr Chris Patten, the new Environment Secre tary, was “minded” to reject the Foxley Wood new town in Hampshire. This announcement was made with a statement which effectively over turned the presumption laid down by the previous Minister, Mr Nicholas Ridley, in favour of devel opment for housing, in planning appeals. Let us hope that these
Valley countryside is. under constant and grow ing threat. The county council’s structure plans h av e a l r e a d y b e en stretched to allow for too much housing devel opment. Each week we read in our local paper of further development plans in the pipeline. In Barrow, on top of the
ish council is opposing plans to build houses on land off Whalley Road, where permission for a similar development was refused last year. In Sawley, permission
present development plan for 83 new houses, we have recently had a plan ning application for five houses behind Catlow Ter race. In last week’s paper there is a further planning ap p l ic a tio n for five detached bungalows near the junction of Whiteacre Lane and Whalley Road. In Sabden, the local par
Poor at listening to public opinion
THERE is a little confusion in your report of the discussion about fluorida tion at the Public Works and Health Committee. Evidence published in recent months makes out a strong case against adding fluoride to water, not in favour of it.
committee to write again to the health authority urging it to reconsider its policy of adding fluoride to the water, in view of the large measure of opposi tion and the results of the most recent research.
Hence the resolution passed by the
the General Dental Practitioners’ Asso ciation, earlier this year states “The margin between a safe daily intake of fluoride and a potentially harmful one is impressively small.” Fluoride'has a potentially harmful
A study in “The Probe,” journal of
effect on dental enamel, called fluorosis, causing a mottled effect to the teeth. Fluoride can be obtained through our diet, tablets or toothpaste. Many people do not require additional fluoride and to add it to water, forcing everyone to'take it, could prove harmful. John Colquhoun, recently retired
chief dental officer for Auckland, New Zealand, had been in favour of fluoride all his life; ■ Last May, he said: “When you are indoctrinated in a particular belief for a lifetime, it is hard to break out, But I examined the figures in my own city of Auckland and found that decay was less in the non-fluoridated than the fluoridated parts. The figures that had been given to the public had been shockingly doctored.” Britain and Eire are now the only countries left in Europe still adding flu oride. The World Health Organisation has withdrawn all assurances of safety and benefits made in their name. Eleven of the 14 district councils in Lancashire have expressed their oppo sition to fluoridation, as has Lancashire County and the majority of Community Health Councils in the country. Unfor tunately, the District Health Authority supports the Regional Health Authority in its request to North West Water to add fluoride. The health authority has a poor record in sensi tivity to public opinion.
COUN. HOWEL JONES, 4 Warwick Drive, Clitherbc.
School governor, but still learning
I DO not believe that the meetings of gov erning bodies are the correct place for political discussion.
has been given for residen tial development on land adjoining the A59, which was opposed by Bolton-by- Bowland, Gisburn Forest and Sawley Parish Coun cils and local residents. In Low Moor, the allot
eroe, the allotments are to be closed, probably with a v iew to h o u s in g development. These are just a few
ments are under threat from development. In Pimlico Road, Clith
outsider. I was born several leagues away in Oldham. However, xeno phobia is distinctly illogical in a Conservative sup por ter . Were we not encouraged by a Conser
Grindleton School meeting last week, I made no reply to Coun. Nevett’s com ments, in the “Advertiser and Times” of October 5th, especially as he had felt it necessary to tender his apologies for the previous meeting. I have to admit I am an
So when I attended the
vative to “get on our bikes,” to earn a living? My wife and I have been
doing that for over 20 years. I would have loved to have stayed and worked in Oldham, but not every body can stay in the place where they were born and earn a comfortable living. Does Mrs T. live and work in Grantham? I have also to admit that
ate management qualifica tion and a ,postgraduate certificate in education, which means that I am a qualified teacher, I still find teaching difficult! This is why I have to keep learning. My latest project is an Open University MA degree. As for my colleague on
the Grindleton School governing body, he will, no doubt, speak for himself.
I am still learning. My knowledge of the world of teaching extends only over a decade. Though I have a good degree, a postgradu
MR. J. S. KENT, Treasurer, Clitheroe Labour Party, 5 Fairfield Close, Clitheroe.
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examples. Something has got to be done to keep the countryside and local rural villages as we know and love them. The balance between planning and environmental considera-
Confused by loss of litter bins
I HEARTILY applaud the apparent concern of mem bers of the Ribble Valley Council regarding litter strewn about our streets, private and public gar dens. I am at a loss; how ever, to understand the “planning” of street light ing improvements in Esh- ton Terrace and Thorn Street, resulting in the loss of litter bins. There never was ade
1 apart from: a privately- owned one outside a shop. I am reliably informed
.new columns being erected. Several weeks later the old columns were removed, but as
yet.there are no litter bins along the entire length of Eshton Terrace ana Thorn Street,
quate provision, but early in July even the few bins were removed from the 15ft columns prior to the
■regarding l i t t e r is genuine? I am tempted to copy a
rather notorious tennis player and say “You can’t be serious.”
G. C. BRAITHWAITE, II Eshton Terrace, ■ . Clitheroe. . ■
that the council is “giving thought” to the type of bins to be provided, but’ meanwhile the l i t te r deposits increase. Surely this should have been resolved before the old bins and columns were removed, if the concern
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