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RESIDENTS of Riverside, Low Moor,' attended the meeting on flooding held at Low Moor Club.


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away, one basic-fact is very clear:: namely tha t in 1972 the water authority pointed out to the Ribble Valley Council that the foundations of- houses at Riverside would need to be: at a height that would protect them., from flooding.


..When the excess verbiage is stripped ,


authority and the council from that time seems to indicate that the council ignored this point. v


Correspondence between the water


. Twenty-three years later, the council sent men to measure the height of the foundations and we are now toid that' the council is “considering possible or even partial” measures for alleviating the flooding at some time in the future. , The residents would prefer a more positive vocabulary. We require per-;


abolishing r all flooding from the River­ oprr


m a n e n t and c r want this now. om p le te .measures for ple


side development—■ from the farmland at the north end of the estate to the fields at the; other end. • We -


..and over the banking at the bottom of ; our gardens, is an experience not to be ; repeated, even-if the water never, reached our particular houses.


•, We bought, these houses believing that they had been properly planned and surveyed by the local authority. Now, nearly a quarter of a century later; we find this is not so. ,, No doubt, higher foundations- would


have cost more money in 1972. It will certainly cost money to correct the mistake. Penny wise, pound foolish? ■


L. PERRIN (Mrs) Riverside, Low Moor :


- - To see water approaching our homes, . both from the weir at Waddow Hall


} Brake on


. development proposals for the Wnalley area have had: : two items of good news which have received surpris­ ingly little coverage in the local press.


■ The first concerns Lancashire County’s proposal.- for, a growth point with large-scale development at. Whalley/Calderstones. A public inquiry into the proposal was held in May;


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and the panel conducting the inquiry has now. recom­ mended the idea be dropped.


opment to the south of the Ribble Valley should be selected.


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it seems inevitable that should-the NHS eventually withdraw from most of the main buildings at Calder- stones, and no other institutional use can be found for them, then there is going to be at least some redevel­ opment on the site. This brings us to the second item of good news.


cil's Planning Committee has taken , careful note of widespread local concern and has produced a posi-


To its great credit, Ribble Valley Borough Coun­ , O N E M A N S W IN E I S .


I READ the article by Sue: Lewtas, of Whiteside’s Wine Merchants, in last week’s “Advertiser and Times” with dismay and disbelief regarding Ger­ man red wines from the far north being, in her view, “unacceptable; to drink by themselves”. Perhaps she has read


that in some wine guide or o t h e r , b u t in my experience it is most cer­ tainly not true. Having on many occa­


about the same as most Frenchreds.


larly good wines from small, family-owned vine­ yards from the west bank of the Mosel upstream of Kues (one half of Bemkas- tel/Kues) and would recommend that on any buying trip that she makes to Germany she should make time to -Visit them and sample their excellent wines.


I have had some particu­ ■ „ For help and advice with your 'LET'S GO


ADVERTISING' Call Joelyn Capstick on


f O I 2 0 0 ) 2 2 3 2 3 " L J O NELSON


do not have the heaviness of the French reds and so can be drunk without the: after effects that one too many glasses the night before can result in, although the alcohol con­ tent, of around 11%, is


of the Ahr region from the Spatburgunder/Portu- gieser varieties have- excellent flavour and colour and the wines from the Mosel from the Spat- burgunder are even, better. The Halbtrocken wines


sions sampled the wines of the Mosel and more recently the Ahr region, I disagree most strongly with nor statement. The Halbtrocken wines


they are so good that they will not export them to us and most go to the many first-class hotels and res­ taurants m the popular holiday; regions of the Mosel valley and sur­ rounding areas.


Unfortunately for us,


time she could also bring back some of the really superb white wines which are not all-put together under the one "Bemkas-


something to rectify this sad state of affairs and we can look forward to seeing some on the shelves at Whiteside’s, instead of the more familier, but boring, French varieties. Perhaps at the same


Perhaps she could do


of such quality as to rival that of the famous Dr Willkemm label and at around one fifth of the price. - Ra th e r than make


tel/Kues” label, most of which ore produced in the large wineries from grapes the growers consider not good, enough to bottle under their own label. I have drunk white wine


they appear on the shelves of Whiteside’s.


“Prosit”.


W. E. PETERS, Leopold Way,


Blackburn.,


w ith th e co n t in u a l pressure to consume cheap w in e s , f rom S o u th America, Australia and other southern hemi­ sphere countries, because they are considered the “in” wines and from south-, em.and eastern European countries just because they are cheap to import.- In the meantime, I will


sweeping condemnations of German red wines, per­ haps it should be the task of wine merchants to bring to us the less known hut first-class products of the small but excellent, family owned in most cases, vineyards. I personally am fed up


Mosel and Ahr regions and: look forward to the day


continue to enjoy the excellent wines of the


• The r em a rk was ac tu a lly intended to explain how Gluhwein evolved and not as a total condemnation, although red grapes grown so far north will have a high acidity content due to the climate. ; Wine is, of course, a


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Whalley; residents but also for those of Barrow and elsewhere in the Ribble Valley; However, even without a recognised growth point;;,


, The panel’s findings must be good news not only for


needed in East-Lancashire in the future, then a more ; suitable site along the main corridor of urban devel-.


It further concludes that should a growth point be ■ ; , ■ ;


- SINCE the withdrawal of the - draft Calderstones c Hospital Development Brief, people concerned about -.


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■ tion • statement: detailing, well; thought-out principles it wishes to see followed in guiding any future devel-- opment of the site. “


i to protect the existing wooded and open areas includ- - ing the playing fields.


.: - These are; designed:to limit any. development- to the existing centrally-developed area.of the site and-


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•: surrounding areas and provide protection for the - visual and environmental aspects of the site. .. It is particularly pleasing that the committee has indicated its wishes - to see the principles form the basis for the replacement local plan; and" we - under­ stand a change to the plan, is due to be released for consultation early in the New Year.


, The aim is to prevent dereliction, minimise the , impact of any development on the existing village and


rural location and the existing village of Whalley, is making sigmficant headway.


. 400 houses on the site have still to be fought but, hopefully, common sense will continue to prevail.


CALDERSTONES REDEVELOPMENT AWARENESS GROUP


Whallcy. Make life easier on A


ARE the planning engi­ neers a t Lancashire County Council really try­ ing to make, the A59 a saler road?


burn, and now we have the narrow lanes m the traffic calming at Copster • Green.


- in te n t io n to offend anyone and, if I did so, I apologise. Whiteside’s have, in-


very personal thing and thus, if I may paraphrase the old adage, "one man’s wine is another woman’s poison”.- ? However, it is never my


fact, stocked German red wines in the past, so, my personal opinions do not prejudice our buying policy in any way. If I am ev e r f o r tu n a te enough to be sent on a buying trip to Germany, I will certainly seek out the wines mentioned. SUE LEWTAS


. They are supposed to make life easier for the pedestrian, and I suppose they help, but standing in the middle of one of those bollards while a lorry shoots past inches from one’s nose while another whizzes past just behind, is very frightening indeed.


mg a bollarded area, with a lorry topping 40 m.p.h. close behind, the rider has simply to pray that the driver will slow down, as there is not enough room for both. But perhaps the rider will do as I did the other day, jump off and .walk, as it is far too dan-


has become unndable. Pedalling along approach-


For the cyclist, the road g First we have the dan­ er of overtaking at Chat- -


planning could have avoided all the -risks. If money: was the problem, shouldn’t some of the £0.8m. of unused bypass money have been applied for to calm the village properly? Pedestrians and cyclists


gerous to nde. I am sure that careful


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of this area deserve better than this, and I urge the traffic planners in Preston to smarten up their ideas and produce a road we can use with as much pleasure as is possible these days.


W. A. KEMBERY, Jersey Croft, Knowsley Road, Blackburn.


They didn’t help us


I SERVED in the Army from 1939-46, defending not the UK but countries whose generals had become sub­ servient to a corporal.


against continental countries, but when did any such country come to our aid?


Throughout our long history we have fought for and


are being ill-directed by those in authority in the Euro­ pean Union. We should never permit them to have a say in what our Armed Forces do. „


Never! They lined up against us. Fishermen, farmers, judges, those in Westminster,


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the peace. Since she was demoted the world is in chaos, the government having put its faith m foreign- dominated, incompetent, costly soothsayers.


When Britannia ruled the waves, Jack Tar kept


with the Commonwealth and get out of the United Nations.


J. ROBINSON, Corbndgc Court, Clithcroc


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