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Approval for four houses despite fears


A FURTHER four plots for housing in Billington have boon approved, despite fears about the effect they will have on school places in the area. Members of Ribble Val­


ley Council’s Planning and Development Committee read a report about the new plots, which men­ t io n ed th e con c e r n expressed by Billington Parish Council.


that they had “never been happy” with the continual increase in the density of the site at the Ryddings, on Longsight Road, and added that the schools in Langho are as full as those in Whallev and Salesburv.


Parish councillors stated


that this was not a reason to turn down an applica­ tion, they explained that this, together with contin­ ual requests for more houses on the site, led to their objection.


While acknowledging


however, approved certain building conditions before granting permission for the four new plots.


C o m m i 11 e e m embers,


TALKS ROUND THE TABLE BEAR FRUIT FOR ROEFIELD CENTRE


THE first step has been taken towards resolving the financial


dilemmas of Roefield Leisure Centre.


Clitheroe Town Council, Ribble Valley Council and the Ribble Valley Sports and Recreation Associa­ tion met informally to dis­


Repre sentatives of


cuss the problems plagu­ ing the two-year-old centre at Kdislbrd.


who chaired the meeting as Clitheroe Mayor, said councillors and officers were present in a listening capacity to learn more about tiie Roefield situa­ tion from association


Coun. Howel Jones, chairman .Mr Ron Pickup.


“ It was a very useful meeting in setting up the next step forward. A lot of good work has gone on at Roefield,” he said. “It is a voluntary body and a lot of volunteers have put in a great ileal of effort.”_____


mercial services officer Mr John Heap said the meet­ ing recognised that there "was absolute support for initiative at Roefield’’ and that the parties concerned were determined the centre should be as suc­ cessful as possible. “It wasn’t really a deci-


Ribble Valley chief com­


sion-making meeting. What did come out of it was that the representa­ tives of tlie Roefield Com­ mittee were able, face-to-


tives now ])lan to meet on Monday to discuss more formally possibilities for helping the centre. “Clearly there are finan­


face, to put as clearly as possible tbe position they found themselves in,” lie said. A group of borough and town council representa­


Crucial time for future mayors


by Sheila Nixon


S L A I D B U R N farmer’s wife Conn. Dorothy Pearson is expected to go down in the record books as the Ribble Val­ iev’s last borough council Mayor before local government reorganisation.


After a year as Deputy Mayor, she will serve as chief citizen in 19D5/(> — the final year before the present two-tier system of local government is scheduled to make way for unitarv authorities.


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ONE of the Ribble Valley’s most prestigious steam rallies has been forced to re-locate, fol­ lowing complaints from a local landowner.


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Slaidburn Steam and Vin­ tage Vehicle Display has had to change its tradi­ tional rallying place. After 13 successful years at the Hark to Bounty, Slaid­


I John King-Wilkinson has indicated that he does not want the rally to be held in Slaidburn any more. He alleges that the traction engines are causing struc-


Slaidburn landowner Mr


1 tu ra l damage to his properties.


I D a v i (1 M c N a m e e expressed his sadness at having to leave Slaidburn, saying: “It is a great pity,


Hally organiser Mr


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we have raised over £15,000, all of which has gone back in to th e village.” Recipients of the rally’s


burn, the rally is moving to the Parkers Arms at Newton.


success have been the church, the school and the village playgroup. The vil­ lage bowling green was also built as a result of financial help from rally funds. The rally, which has


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Bungalows approved


TWO new bungalows are to he built in Rimington. following approval by the Ribble Valley Council's P1 a n n i n g a n d 1) e v e 1 - opment Committee. lii a report to the coun­


cil, the committee heard that Rimington Parish


Council was split over adding support to the development, for land adjacent to the Black Bull public house. Back banc. Half the parish council­


Meanwhile, the current Deputy Mayor, bon- gridge doctor’s wife Colin. Kale Hodkinson, will lie in the hot seal as chief citizen for the com­ ing municipal year, when the Ribble Valley will be fighting for all its w o r t h f o r unit a r y status.


lors considered the devel­ opment proposal to he in keeping with the scale of Back bane and others saw it as a move towards over­ development of the area. Committee members


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roved the application pro­ vided that certain adjust­ ments are made to the site's access.


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Appeal for refugee aid


MORE than four million people in former Yugosla­ via are now living in refu­ gee camps and bombed-out houses — and they need


your help.Help th e Aged is ippealiug for donations to


Colins Hodkinson and Pearson were appointed Mayor-elect and Deputy Mayor-elect respectively at last week’s meeting of the full council and will be installed at the tradi­ tional Mayor-making ceremony. Their hus­ bands, Dr Robert Hod­ kinson and Mr Stanley Pearson, will serve as consorts.


Together they will set another record — by becoming the f irs t women to hold the two roles simultaneously.


Coun. Hodkinsou, who has represented the Dil- worlh ward in bon­ gridge since 1983, is


C’oun. Kate Hodkinson and husband Robert


She and her husband, a bongridge GP. have lived in the town for the past 21! years. They have three children — Alice, who is studying medicine at Cambridge: R i c h a r d , a r e c e n t Oxford graduate in phi­ losophy, polities and economics: and Kmily. an A-level student at a Staffordshire school.


"mother and wife.”


Colin. Hodkinson. of Dil- wortli bane, is a gover­ nor of two schools in bongridge and one in Derbyshire and serves oil the Community Health Council and the Arthritis and Rheuma­ tism Council in bon­ gridge. She lists music, bee-keeping and garden­ ing among her interests.


Conn. Pearson, of Hodder


View, lias lived for 31 years in Slaidburn, where her husband lias a stock-rearing farm. She was born at Alston, near bongridge, and went to school in Grimsargh, before starting work on her father’s farm in the bongridge area.


During early marriage she lived in Tiiornley and Chipping and lias four married children — two sons and two daughters wlio now live away from the area — and four grandchildren.


chairman of the council’s Housing Committee. She trained as a State Registered Nurse and State Certified Midwife in I.ondon before her


Farming tools


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Window broken VANDAbS smashed the window of a Proton saloon parked on Princess Street, Whalley, between 10 and 11 p.m. on Monday.


FARM equipment, valued at £920, was stolen from a farm outbuilding in With- gill between 11-10 p.m. on Sunday and 5 a.in. on Monday. An orange Stilil stone


s a w , s e r ia l n u m b e r 128I5810G, a Stild chain­ saw with a 20in. blade and eight various-sized ratchet screwdrivers were taken.


Clean away


S POT b ESS th ie v e s cleaned up when they stole a. White Knight tumble dryer, valued at £120, from a garage in Wiswell, between 6 p.m. on Satur- d ay a n d 10 a . m. o n Monday.


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Feeling the chill with snowfalls in February


SLEET on February 1st, with a gale and snow on the 3rd, heralded what was to be a cold and


half of February turned into quite a severe cold snap, with minimum tem­ peratures in the 20s Fahr­ enheit. Combined with snow


snowy month. Slight frosts in the first


Bigger size


El m r id g e F a rm , in Heights bane, were for the replacement of an existing workshop and office building with a big- g e r s e t of s i m i 1 a r buildings. One condition attached


opment Committee. The plans at b i t t le


A CHIPPING farm work­ shop is to grow in size, after plans were approved by Ribble Valley Council's P1 a n n i n g a n d I) e v e I -


Kibble Valley residents were in for an o 1 d - fashioned February.


and cold north and east- erlv winds, it looked as if


on tile 2.3!h saw a thaw set in. with temperatures recovering at the end of the month.


However, sleet and rain


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back to their respective councils, before any deci­ sions are made,” Mr Heap


cial constraints on both councils. The intention is to examine what would be possible in terms of finan­ cial and any other kind oi help. Then they will go


from an officer, and antici­ pated reduced heating bills as a result.


said.In the interim, help had been offered in the form of officer support from the borough council: for exam­ ple, the Roefield Commit­ tee had the heating system serviced, following advice


technical expertise to help the Roefiekl Committee, Mr Heap said. “It’s an


“We are able to use our


optimistic move. We are beginning to see the results of co-operation.”


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to tile application is that a landscaping scheme is pro­ vided round the proposed buildings.


m a r r ia g e and now describes herself as a


Coun. Pearson, who is vice-chairman of the council’s Planning and Development Commit­ tee and a member of Slaidburn Parochial Church Council, will be Kibble Valley’s fifth woman Mayor.


THIEVES stole a red BMW car, registration Gafi7 MFR, valued at £12,001), from a garage in Clitheroe Road, Whalley, iietween 3 p.m. on Satur­ day and 9-15 p.m. on Mondav.


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