C litheiov J.22.U!, (Editorial), 222.122 (Advert hi,,;/). IS linden .',22.1.11 (Classified) Six-day hospital site inquiry ends
RiKKi w'sn0n?s HosP,tal has come to a close at Kibble Valley’s council offices. „f
™ La i fNnrtti
nf p.,ilfy . f batHe wage(I over the future use
inquiry into the appeals of the refusal applications, submitted to the borough
(North West), finished on Wednesday last week. ine NHb. on one side, wants to build up to 400 houses ami supply thousands of square feet of Indus*
m1 r ^ :{51(Jnal Health Service Executive
tna! and office space on the site of the mental hospital, which is due to close in 1998. Kibble Valley Borough Council, which did not deal
with one application in the permitted timescale last year — this constitutes a refusal — and refused a second application in August, believes there will be too much development, that open spaces will not be safe guarded and that the impact on Whalley and the sur rounding area will be harmful.
group — Calderstones Redevelopment Awareness Group (CRAG) — formed in 1995 to make people aware of the impending plans for the hospital. It had representation at the public inquiry through a planning consultant paid for by donations to the group. Mr David Walton, solicitor for the borough coun
It had support from a Whalley-based residents* Letters Denied rightful representation
I BELIEVE that 300 Area Health Authority, as objectors to the origi- the appellants, and the
Ho spi t a l planning applications were den ied rightful represen
n a l Ca l d e r s t o n e s council to conjoin both
tation at the appeals inquiry from Septem ber 10th to 18th.
ate act was perpetrated by the Ribble Valley Borough Council, according to the Planning Inspectorate. I was told by the inspec torate that, if it had been informed by the council
This seemingly deliber
from the second appeal, either the date of inquiry would have been put back or th a t only the f irst appeal would have been heard on September 10th.
between the applications, it had agreed with the
School s ta f f dedicated
School did nothing to help her daughter, Charlotte. Bowland has a strict
I AM very sorry Mrs Reed feels that Bowland High
year at Bowland High School. Her years spent there have been a very happy time. I am proud to be t he mot h e r of a “Bowlander”.
J.K. PICKUP, Padiham Road, Sabdcn.
- Week” in the September 12th issue of the Clithoroe Advertiser and Times, submitted by the Rev. Peter Shepherd, left me spellbound and blinded by science. I hope Joe Stans- field will continue to keep his thoughts easy to read by common people like myself.
Keep it simple The “Thought for the
A. DICKINSON, Whittle Close, Clitheroe.
anti-bullying policy. I am certain Mr Colling and his caring and dedicated staff will have done everything possible to help Charlotte. My daughter is a fifth-
that the first appeal was h o n eX riven substantially different T tthV ln q u i .y , no pro- tection was given to Whal-
As it was told little or that, if the inspector is ' difference existed minded, the council would
ley village. No defence was given to parking problems. The written evidence given by the council says
not object to the building of 300 houses and 50 con-
councillors making prom ise after promise that they have the interests of the electorate of Whalley at heart. I tell you, they most certainly have not. They have misled the pub lic in a most shocking man ner and betrayed a trust
mission to build 400 houses. I have listened to our
appeals. Yet the second appeal was the subject of
great detail, while the first one simply asked for per
versions — the very figure the last planning applica tion from the Area Health
Authority had requested and the very figure the council had rejected in that application.
figures for the Ribble Val ley, we are told, is satis- * fied up to the year 200G, yet the council did not defend that statement.
The housing allocation
the emerging county structure plan was given, especially to policy one statements regarding Cal derstones Hospital and policy 37 settlement strat egy policy for Whalley. Most of the public pres
No detailed defence of
why so little time was given for the county sur veyor to prepare his case. The Ribble Valley Council wishes to weaken
extended to the county chief planning officer and
ent at the inquiry sat in disbelief as the council’s policy was brought to light. A hidden agenda of the first order.
objectors were cut out and th at no invitation was
We now realise why the We’re flourishing
MAY I assure Dennis Mackey (letters column, September 19th) that the Clitheroe Civic Society is alive and flourishing. We work very hard to protect the interests of Clitheroe.
We inspect all planning applications and put in our observations to Ribble Valley Planning Department.
inquiry into the Ribble Valley District Wide Local Plan. This inquiry was held over several weeks and a great deal of care and attention was put into our writ ten submissions to the inspector.
meeting called to discuss the Ribble Valley Council’s bid for lottery funding for the Castle field project. I am afraid I have not had the pleasure of meeting Mr Mackey, so I don’t know whether he attended this meeting. Once again we made the views of the Civic Society known to the architects and planners present.
Recently we were well represented at the public
last week’s Advertiser and Times with regard to the society’s AGM. All the relevant details are there and we would welcome his attendance at our future lec tures for the 1996/97 season. He might even become a
Perhaps Mr Mackey would like to read the report in
years ago — we have only held three coffee mornings, the most important of which was specifically organised to raise money to help set up the Stanley Westhead Room in the Castle Museum. Stanley was our greatly- admired past president, a well-known geologist and an expert on fossils. We raised, incidentally, £457.
BERYL H. CASSIDY, Chairman, Clithcroe Civic Society.
This is an emergency
SEVERAL people have contacted me since last week’s arti cle in the Clitheroe
Advertiser and Times. The most distressing
was a resident who, 1 believe, suffers from seri ous heart problems. He claimed that he had been caught in the grounding emissions from the tall stack, yet again. Unable to get a reply
from the cement works on a Saturday afternoon, he said that he had rung the emergency freephone number of the Environ m en t A g en cy (0800
807000). He says he was told that
all the agency could do was to contact Castle Cement, but it could not
the emissions, nor stop the pre-existing respiratory Cemfuel from being burnt, and/or cardiac disorders." unless there was an emer- Also, that “short-term gency at the plant. Every increases in air pollutant time this resident is forced concentrations may pro to breathe in undiluted voke a c u te a s thm a fumes from this tail chim- attacks, or aggravate ney, I believe it is an existing chronic asthma,
emergency. He is one of The tall stack, which the category defined by caused the distress at the th e D e p a r tm e n t of weekend, is the one deal- Health’s Chief Medical ing with the emissions Officer as most at risk from kilns five and six from increased levels of which burn Cemfuel. particulates in general. Nothing has been pro- All doctors, even those posed to stop the plume-
member! Just to put the record straight, since 1976 — some 20
We feel we have a rapport with the officials and they respect our views. One of our committee members attended the public
is about time our council lors had policies of their own and fulfilled their duties and obligations to their electorate. The pres ent state of affairs will not do.
JOHN S. CHADWICK, Moor Edge, Whalley.
its own case; the public and county would have strengthened it. Now the inspector of appeal is left with the understanding that our council wishes him to arbitrate the plan ning applications upon the single view of the coun cil, a view peculiarly unbalanced towards some former promise to the applicant. What a miser able exercise. The council has been off icer-led for far too long. It
ing the inquiry, argued that the issues of a com prehensive approach to the development and the environmental impact upon the area gave reasons for
cil, in his final submission to the inspector conduct
refusal. He said: “The appealed proposal relates to less
than one half of the site. It is, therefore, not compre hensive. It includes no proposals for the part of the site which will remain in trust ownership. The area of the option land also may or may not be retained in NHS ownership and therefore the impacts are difficult to evaluate. The Calderstones site covers approximately 8(» hect
ares, of which Calderstones NHS Trust is to retain about half, mostly woodland and agricultural land. Within both applications, there is 4.2 hectares of option land set aside for the Trust to take up at a later if it needs to expand. Mr Walton contended that a letter from the trust,
impact will not be greater than that existing. The proposals plainly represent a greater impact tiian the existing, particularly upon the attractive, open-lawned areas north of North Drive.”
final submission to the inquiry, criticised this point. He said: “The central-built campus philosophy of the coun cil’s document, ‘Calderstones, The Way Forward’, con flicts wholly with the established developed ami policy of the local plan. Mr Bailey (Ribble Valley’s planning officer) concedes that point and it is a disturbing fea ture of this case that the councillors have never been told, in unequivocal terms, that the document is con- tmry to the adopted local plan. “The development will have no adverse impact on
Mr Roger Lancaster, solicitor for the NHS, in his
the open countryside when compared to that of the current development. Indeed, its impact will be less.” In arguing the comprehensiveness of his client’s
which stated “there are no foreseeable circumstances that the trust would wish to build major new facilities at Calderstones”, was submitted as evidence of its long-term intentions, but only indicated current policy. Concerning the environmental impact of a devel-.
opment, he said: “We say that it should be contained within the central-built campus so as to ensure that the
Mr Stewart Bailey, in cross examination, accepted the NHS letter and its contents and, on that basis, he said: “The local authority has no evidence whatever that the trust would ever wish to build major new facilities at Calderstones.” Concerning the greater environmental impact arising
He claimed that Ribble Valley’s planning officer,
proposals, Mr Lancaster introduced NHS policy for “care in the community”, which, he said, enjoyed wide political support and did not indicate a return to. mass institutional care.
Increased Pennines access is the aim
SUNDAY is Forbidden Britain Day and Clithcroe ramblers are among those throughout the country seeking increased access to the Pennines. The Clitheroe group is
CUthcmc Advertiser & Times, September 26th, J99C 13
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supporting a rally at Haworth on Sunday, dur ing which Janet Street Porter, Kate Ashbrook and Paddy Tipping MP are speaking. Members are asked to
meet at Waterloo at 11-30 a.m. or to make their own way.On Wednesday, a walk is planned in “forbidden territory” in the Forest of Bowland. Members are
again asked to meet at Waterloo, at 9-15 a.m., or
make theii: own way. Permission for the ram-
from the development, when compared to the existing development, lie said: “What is in discussion is a tiny, negligible area, which in no way can justify refusal of the proposals on ecological grounds.” Air Lancaster also claimed that the county council
agreed that no basis existed for refusal on highway grounds and that the impact of traffic on Whalley vil lage centre was approached simplistieally by other par ties. He said that, with everything taken into consider ation, the roads in and around Whalley could cope with an increase in traffic and parking, although he agreed there would be need for a mini-roundabout at the junc tion of King Street and Station Road. The major points of the non-determined applica
tion are listed below, with the additional points of the August application and further undertakings added in
hectare (34 hectare) site. • To have the option to demolish existing hospital buildings (this option is deleted in the August
brackets. • To build 400 houses (350 houses) and supply 9,293
square metres of industrial and office space on a 39
application). 0 To have the option to re-use existing buildings
for 50 units of the proposed 400 houses (350 houses). • To lay out recreational open space on Whalley
Moor — to the north of the application (this is deleted from the August application). • (The August application deals with a site of 34
hectares and the site’s two accesses are to be used separately by industrial and residential traffic). •
and Whalley every 15 minutes, between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week and maintained for five years).
and a contribution of £200,000 has been offered to start its building). •
Classic twist to success
Peter Harrison is on the move
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propinetor Judith Hit chen — one of Clith- e ro e ’s best-known high street traders — has set uj) a new “clas sic collection” at larger premises.
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established Peter Harri son shop in Castle Street and moved to the former Ladyfair premises, only 50 yards away on the same side of the street.
She has closed the long- wear S(ore by Derek and ran£e buyer, and her Lorna Jebson, who have collection includes such since retired
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“I have retained the
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in Clitheroe, received the grounding in the tall stack. “February Update", from Indeed, as long ago as the Chief Medical Officer, May, at the Castle Cement which r e p o r te d th e liaison meeting, the national conclusions from minutes record that Castle th re e health surveys Cement admits there was released in late 1995. They no economic solution to the those most at tall chimney which it could
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Disappointed
I WAS very disappointed to read that Ribble Valley Borough Council had decided to turn down an application by Clitheroe Scout and Guide Canoe Club to build a new lodge at a site in West Bradford. E v er since Barrow
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Lodge has been e a r marked for commercial use the canoe club has been looking for an alternative location. The canoe club desper
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