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Objectors overruled in housing row


| The Planning Inspector j has allowed the appeal by | the Clitheroe Auction j Mart Company for outline I planning permission to I develop five acres of land I off Chatburn Road for a ! scheme which will have 60% social housing. The decision follows


THE hostclrics of Clithcroc were hit by an unusual sight when two St Trinian girls, a vampire and a tourist in bright shorts and sunglasses toured the town on a sponsored pub crawl on Friday night.


K a r e n i s a w a r d e d a P h .D . a t N o r w i c h


A FORMER Clitheroe Royal Grammar School pupil has been awarded a Ph.D. in chemical sciences from the University of East Anglia.


O'Neill’s three years of study were rewarded in a ceremony, when she received her certificate and her cap and gown at the Norwich university.


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university. Despite studying away


.Sc. awards at the B in gaining both ilf.Sc. ami


from home for several years, Karen still has close lin k s with th e a re a through her parents Mr and Mrs P. O’Neill, who live in Fairfield Drive, Clitheroe.


to put her years of study behind her and head off into the world of work.


Now, Karen has decided


lyst at Fisons pharmaceu­ ticals, in Loughborough, means that Karen can now look foward to the blos­ soming of a successful career.


A position as a bio-ana­


Film location for walks


down the wind — thanks to a series of guided ram­ bles around Downham.


RIBBLE VALLEY walk­ ers can literally whistle


“Whistle Down the Wind” filming locations, are part of a fundraising drive for leading children's charity "Save the Children Fund.”


The walks, around the


Tuesday, starting next week, until the end of Sep­ tem b e r , leaving the Assheton Arms at 11 a.m. F u rth e r details are


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available from Peter Whitby, a voluntary worker for the fund and the walk organiser (tel:


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for 26-year-old Karen fol lows on from her success


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Clark (24), Shirley Ann Williams (20), Richard Noble (16) and Wavnc Binder (16), raised £168 for the Blackpool Vic­ toria baby unit with their intrepid fund-rais­ ing. The four, former and current pupils of K ib b lc s d a le High School, also went on a walk in Blackpool on Sunday afternoon, tak­ ing the total to £327.


The four locals, Carol


ning practice on the one hand to suppor t the quarry extension, which I do, and also support the housing extension. The biggest complaint I have from my constituents in the Grammar School ward j the story I like best: ‘Sutl- is about the dust and noise ; denly a great scream went pollution from the quarry, i out in the dining room. It “The three proposed ; was the people in the housing developments will ; RSPCC (but really they only add to these com- I w.ere witches). They all p la in ts . Clitheroe is j stood on their chairs and


get a built-up area all the way from Clitheroe to Chatburn. It also means that the green buffer between Clitheroe and industrial development is being eroded. I think that the two things are totally incompatible,” he said. “It seems very bad plan­


P h y ni s F a rm , High Bentham Road, Slaidburn, is a pupil at Brcnnamls Endowed School, and has written a winning review of "The Witches” by Roald Dahl. Her review reads: “This is a typical Roald


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(Clitheroe), who shared the views expressed in 42 letters of objection and opposed the application, called th e P lan n in g Inspectorate’s decision “regrettable.” “It means that we will


to a head last January, when an outline applica­ tion came before the Plan­ ning and Development Committee and was refused in a vote which saw the Liberal Demo­ crats opposed and Conser­ vative ranks divided. Coun. Frank Dyson


nearly two years of debate surrounding the proposed development, which has been a bone of contention since the Clitheroe Local Plan review in November, 1991. The controversy came


! has been given the | green light, despite | the opposition of the i Ribble Valley Council, Clitheroe Town Coun­ cil and local residents.


A MAJOR Clitheroe housing development


look. It was a nice safe piece of road and pave­ ment. Now there will be a road to cross and greater traffic. It will be a great inconvenience.”


development Mr Philip Bailey recommended approval subject to strict planning conditions, argu-


In January, director of


the council can’t have a say in running its own affairs,” he said. “I t ’s more bureaucracy and overruling from White Hall. “It will spoil our out­


signatures against the application. “What a shame it is that


Mr Timothy Parrish, the owner of High Brake House, which last winter submitted a petition of 18


becoming a dormitory town and losing its charac­ ter. There must be some limitation on the spread of d e v e lo p m e n t ,” he concluded. Equally frustrated was


opment Committee chair­ man Coun. Stan Thomas (Mellor), who is in favour of the development.


encourage people to live in the Ribble Valley. It makes for a better work­ force, it brings in money and that’s what i t ’s all about,” he said.


"I think it’s appropriate in that area. We want to


is e n v i ro nm e n ta l ly friendly, I don’t see a problem, providing we don't go over the top. But there is no way we are going to let the volume of development spoil the Ribble Valley,” he added. The Planning Inspector


“As long as it fits in and


concluded that the devel- o p m e li t w ould not


“adversely affect” the open character and rural


Witches book is a winner


hobbies of our Month. Gemma Taylor (10), of


CRAFTWORK and swimming are among the latest Junior Reader of the


suddenly to everybody’s surprise they were very gradually turning into mice. When they had turned into mice they scuttled away.’ “The saddest part was


Dahl book. I like those types. I have a lot of them. The only thing I don’t like is the pictures, because of the way he draws. This is the part of


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Brownies and saw a play about "The Witches.” It was brill! The best charac­ ter was Bruno — he was turned into a mouse as well. I like this book because it was scary. At one part I hid under the pillow because it was so scary. I chose this book because I wanted to read a Roald Dahl.


that the little boy (who was now a mouse) never turned back. "Once I went with the


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recipe: ‘Boil wrong end of a telescope until soft. Take 24 brown mice, chop off their tails and fry them in hair oil. Simmer the rest of the mice’s bodies in frog juice. Roast an alarm clock until crisp and tender. Put all the ingredients — with­ out the whole mouse — into a mixer.Mix at full speed. It will give a thick paste.’ “1 enjoyed this book. I


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would like to read it again.”


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business and industry — and the Education and Business Partnership are proving very successful in local schools, with £12,995 going to schools in the last financial year under the um b r e l la of th e s e schemes.


Mountain bike


A RED, green and yellow Emmellc mountain bike, valued at £150, was stolen from Clitheroe Auction Mart on Wednesday last week.


als and will be submitting a report to the Rural Development Commission by September 30th.


goes ahead. Director of development Mr Philip Bailey raised the question of the effect of the change’s on Objective 5b — the council’s apjieal for aid for rural deprivation from the EC. He said: “It may well undermine our claim to the EC if nationally we are no longer seen to merit the status of a Rural Devel­ opment Area.” The council intends to lobby against the pro|>os-


regeneration of Whalley town centre — and Ribble Valley Borough Council has expressed serious con­ cern about the potential loss of the grants, which also contribute to job creation and the promotion of tourism. There may be wider repercussions if the review


from the greatest concentration of economic and social problems, currently cover 70% of the Ribble Valley. If the proposed changes are made, how­ ever, the area would lose its RDA status and thus the financial support provided by the Rural Devel­ opment Commission. The value of such aid to the area can be seen in the


GOVERNMENT grants worth thousands of pounds, for development and regeneration of poorer rural areas within the Ribble Valley, may be under throat following a recent review of Rural Development Areas. The RDAs, those parts of rural England suffering


Rural area grants are under threat


scheme — which teaches youngsters the skills of


SIX months of hard work at Ribble Valley Careers Office were reported by district careers officer Mrs Dorothy Masked to the District Liaison Education Committee meeting in Clitheroe. Highlights of the period included a higher educa­ tion conference for Ribble Valley sixth-formers at tlie University of Central Lancashire and an evening for governors to come into the careers office to see their resources. The Young Enterprise


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ing that the proposal com­ plied with Clitheroe Local Plan policies. Supporting him was Planning and Devel­


subject to conditions on siting, design and land­ scaping, safeguarding existing trees and the retention of the stone wall along Chatburn Road.


Development Committee will consider the decision at its meeting on August 17th, when another outline application for residential development on an adja­ cent site is also likely to be discussed.


The full Planning and


councillors deferred the application after receiving 26 letters of objection to the development concern­ ing a site currently used as grazing land, which is bounded by Dorset Drive and Denbigh Drive.


At their last meeting,


ment would make a contri­ bution to Local Plan tar­ gets over the next few years. The appeal was allowed,


appearance of the area and that the social housing ele­


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