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A spr ing baby hops in with a headache for a West Bradford family.


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A BLAZE of publicity surrounded the unveiling of final plans for the old Cl i th e ro e Au c t io n Ma r t s i te on Monday.


which once sparked the imagination of the community, seems to have been reduced to a few glowing embers which Ribble Valley councillors, officers and many traders still believe will be enough to set local tourism alight.


B111 the s c h e m e ,


the Ribbie Valley Council chambers represented the culmination of more than £100,000 worth of research and over 15 years of intense and often bitter debate about the future of the massive central site.


The press conference in


create a showpiece that would take Clitheroe into the 21st century, its rede­ velopment was originally going to entail an ambi­ tious £8 million scheme complete with shops, a civic centre and under­ cover parking for 150 cars.


Considered a once-in-a- iifetime opportunity to


by Elizabeth Huffman


million development revealed with such a flour­ ish on Monday included a new market area with a storage building arching over the Station Road entrance, 39 improved market cabins, a 71-space car park and 20 flats.


Highlights of the £2.5


question not only whether more visitors will be attracted to the town, blit whether some will be driven away when they cannot find a place to park.


The scheme called into


last market day when dri­ vers have the full benefit of the old auction mart site. From Monday, the section nearest the physio­ therapy centre will be closed, as construction of the new market area begins.


For Saturday will be the


site will, in turn, become off-limit for cars in May, when work starts on the Bradford and Northern Housing Association fiats.


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ual acceptance of the tem­ porary car parking on the auction mart site. We did this on the understanding that one day we would be developing it," he added.


want to go shopping," he said. “There has been a grad­


Trade president Mr Peter Fa veil said during the


Clitheroe Chamber of


press conference that parking and the lack of a retail element were the two reservations Chamber members had about the scheme, which they other­ wise thought would be highly successful.


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parking, but nobody wants to finance it. There is a large piece of land on the other side of the railway. With a pedestrian bridge, that could be used for ear parking,” Mr Favell said, speculating that 200 to 300 cars at present used the site on market days and noted that the chamber would be campaigning for additional car parking.


"Clitheroe is short of ear


Perhaps representing the views of many people


we are going to get any more people with this


scheme? — Mr Thomas Boulton


"Car parking is at a pre­


Mr Philip Bailey empha­ sised that the scheme would ultimately incorpo­ rate car parking spaces


Director of development


6 Clitheroe is short of car parking, but nobody


wants to finance it? — Mr Peter Kuvell, Chamber of Trade president, who estimates that 200 to 300 ears at present use the former auction mart site on market days


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who have watched and waited for more than a decade was Mr Thomas


market for 35 years. As he spoke during the press conference, it became clear the watered-down scheme had failed to ignite his enthusiasm.


Boulton, who has been selling underwear on the


he said. “As the town is at the moment, it’s a tourist attraction, i don’t think we are going to get any more people with this scheme. It’s an old estab­ lished market town. It gets a lot of visitors as it is.”


“I have mixed feelings," *1 don’t think


than to take a leaf out of its book to describe the town’s new “dream” centre. After all, the scheme unveiled this


Lancashire prosperity cake for Clith­ eroe.


week really is PATHETIC. Tills is the scheme, remember, which was going to carve out a slice of the East


The original plan — bronze bull and all — was an exciting concept, whether you


impression form — featuring no more than a cluster of low-cost houses, an entrance building leading to an open market, however aesthetically pleasing, and a minute car park — spells out clearly just what an opportunity the town has lost, not to mention the thou­ sands of pounds in expensive market research to come up with the correct formula.


agreed with it or not, and those who saw it as a future boost for the town were almost prepared to help with the demolition of the old auction mart build­ ings to make way for a new complex con­ taining a mixture of shops, market, civic centre, homes and parking spaces for residents and shoppers alike. Looking at its replacement in artist


SO this is what we have all been holding our breath for, the new look that was going to take Clith­ eroe into the 21st century. We do not like tabloid journalism. But, for once, we cannot do better


ter of Clitheroe’s main street would have been enhanced and, nearby, there would have been a shopping development which browsing and buying visitors would have found a delight. This morning, as the public of Clith­


might just be thinking that the town would even have been better with a large, free, award-winning car park that would welcome shoppers with open arms. Is it really too late for a rethink? Let us put the low-cost housing where


eroe and district take a look here at what is being offered in its place, they


it belongs — out of the centre — and give Clitheroe a scheme which will be


the talk of the town, for the right


centre, which would have given Clith- eroe the best of botli worlds and avoided the type of development which, some argue, has ruined towns like Skipton. With the original scheme, the charac­


market town when the new rail service starts need more than a few market stalls there to attract them and tempt them to return. We could have had a bustling shopping


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