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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burnley 422331 (Classified), www.eastlan 24 Clitheroe Advertiser & Times, December 2nd, 1999 ews from the Villages MARTlMTOP


Gradely sing There was a good gather­ ing and a gradely sing on a


stormy evening at Salem Congregational Chapel, Martin Top, on the occasion of the annual "Songs of Praise" on Sunday. Pastor Jeff Jones wel­ comed everyone and opened the evening with a Bible reading before introducing M r Roy Porter, of Chat- burn, who led the singing. Mr Porter gave many inter­ esting insights into the lives of some of the composers of the numerous hymns requested. A large percent­ age of those chosen were from the Sankey Hymn Book, and Sir Cliff Richard's "The Millennium Prayer" was also included in


the requests. Accompanying the


hymns on the organ was M r Don Carson, and the evening closed with the singing of "Jesus Shall Reign" to the tune of Rim- ington. M r Jones expressed thanks to every­ one and refreshments were


served. READ


Panto time Read and Simonstone


Players are presenting "Cin­ derella" in the United Reformed Church, East View, Read, on December


9th to 11th. Performances are at 7-30


p.m. each evening with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Satur­ day. Tickets are £3 for adults and £2 for children and can be obtained from Pollard's garage, D. Collinson (tel. 778382) or S. Lightbown (779461).


Home defeat Read United F C first


team lost 4-1 at home to M i l l H i l l St Peter's on Saturday. M a t t Birch scored the goal and man of the match was Kirk Mars-


den. The second team won 3-1


away against Rock Rovers. Goal scorers were Andrew


Rushton, Dan Walker and Gavin Yeoman, with Steve Meehan named man of the


match.


Coffee morning A coffee morning held at


the home of Vicky Longton, of Woodhead Road, Read, was well-supported and raised £380 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. She thanked everyone


who helped or attended.


Winners Winners of the whist drive held in Read Consti­


tutional Club on Monday evening were: Ladies - Mrs S. Law, Mrs M . Grime. Gents - Mrs E. P. Larkin, Mr L. Grime. Special prize was won by Mrs M. Red- path and M C was Mr G. A. Holden.


... NEWTON


Christmas fair There was a Christmas


fair organised by members of Newton United Reformed Church, on Sat­ urday, held in the village


hall. The event was opened by


Mrs Helen Mason, wife of the minister, the Rev. D.


Mason. She was introduced by


M r D. Bagshaw and pre­ sented with a plant by Mr Ryan Hargreaves. Raffle winers were: Mrs


E . Haslewood, M rs D. Pearson, Mrs M. Rushton, Mrs P. Cowking, Mrs W. Cowking and Mrs M .


Lund. The final total for the day


was £540 which will go towards church funds.


SLAIDBURN


Tricks and spots The Christmas whist and


domino drive was held in Slaidburn Village Hall on Saturday. M C s were W. Brown and M. Briggs. Whist winners were: Mrs


Green, D. Knowles, W. Brown, J. Kenyon.


Whist drive A Christmas whist and


domino drive is to be held in Pendleton Village Hall on Monday at 7-30 p.m. Admission is £1.50.


Council leader back home


A F T E R suffering a heart attack, Coun. Peter Red- path, the leader of Ribble Valley Borough Council, is


back home. Last week, the 72-year


old councillor from Read was taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary, but was later moved to Queen's Park Hospital. A spokesman for the


council said Coun. Red- path, who became council leader in May, was much


better. Dominoes: F. Lowe, J.


Oddie, P. Metcalfe, J. Pye, A. Lowe, F. Taylor, J.


Howarth, L. Dawson. Raffle: P. Metcalfe, H.


Pickard, F. Calverley, M. Briggs, J. Kenyon, D. Knight, R. Kennedy, W. Husthwaite, W. Wilson. The next whist and


domino drive will be on January 22nd, and a chari­ ty drive on January 29th.


La n g h o


Christingle There will be a special


Christingle service at St Leonard's Church, Lang­ ho, on Sunday at 4 p.m. to raise money for the Chil­ dren's Society. A l l are welcome to


attend.


Concert Members of St


Leonard’s Church, Lang­ ho, Mothers’ Union are presenting a Millennium celebration concert on December 10th at 7-30 p.m. in church. Tickets are £1.50,


including refreshments, and are available from


church.


N ational support for residents in farm row


A GROUP of residents protesting against a plan for a 950-cow dairy plan,at Withgill says it is attracting


national support. Details of the project by the Barnes


family, of Bashall Hall, Bashall Eaves, were reported in this newspa­ per last week. The plans will be con­ sidered by the Ribble Valley Borough Council's Planning and Development Committee in a month's time, and include an assessment of the likely environmental impact of the proposed


operation. . , Residents of Withgill Fold just by


the site have, like the applicants and the council, appointed their own expert adviser. He has had many suc- cesses in opposing "inappropriate


Meeting


I hears of home plan


changes RESIDENTS and councillors attended a special meeting on Monday night, held to discuss an amended planning application for a housing develop­


ment in Whalley. Amended plans for


development at The Cop- pins, "Whalley, have result­ ed in modifications from 15 to 14 houses at the site, at the bottom of Queen


Street. Organised by a local


action group, the meeting was held in Whalley V i l­


lage Hall. Those attending heard


that the amended applica­ tion retained the access of Queen Street, had a reduc­ tion of one house and a slightly different site lay­ out. There was some con­ cern expressed regarding proposals for three-storey properties on the site. Residents were told that,


if they intended to com­ ment on the amended scheme, they had until


Tuesday to do so.


planning applications in rural areas throughout the country and, says the group,-his initial response to the assessment has been less than compli­


mentary. "It is more a support document to


the application rather than an impar­ tial technical appraisal," claims the group, saying there are no figures to help ascertain the amount of waste products and their effect on the envi­


ronment. The group also disputes some of the


applicants' technical points about dairy operation, and claims that the 300 acres of summer grazing available is totally inadequate for 500 cows, far less than the one acre per cow regard­ ed as standard. A new slurry lagoon is


proposed, but the application is not accompanied by technical support. "Concerns are being expressed that


such an unproven major engineering operation with potential pollution risk has not been fully assessed." The landscaping, alleges the group,


will not integrate the development into the area of outstanding natural beauty. It amounts to "a crude motor-, way type embankment, totally alien1 to the character of the existing high- quality landscape and with potential technical problems which do not appear to have been adequately


assessed." The residents continue to meet on a


regular basis,


Council to pay compensation after ‘dream h om e ’ debacle


COMPENSATION on a country dream home that never was and may never be is to be paid to its would-be occupant by borough council officials brand­


ed “unreasonable”. Local builder M r Stuart


Horsfall was granted plan­ ning permission to convert the dilapidated barn at Great Dudlands Farm, Sawley, formerly used as a dog kennels, into his rural retreat. Having started work, planners from Ribble Valley Borough Council then ordered him to stop. They decided that M r Horsfall’s alterations were so extensive, they constitut­ ed demolition, with any resultant home a' “new


build”. With “new builds” not


allowed in such locations under the council’s country­ side protection policy, Mr Horsfall was ordered to demolish the structure, but he took his case on appeal


Club’s winners


W IN N E R S of the solo whist at Clitheroe's Pendle Club on Monday were: M rs M . Parker, M rs M . Parkes, Mrs A. Foster. New players are wel­ come each Monday at 7-30


p.m. Winners of this week's


bridge drive held in the club were: Mrs D. Green and Mrs J. Walmsley, Mrs J. Lavery and M rs V. Heald.


to the Government’s plan­ ning inspectorate when it was realised that the barn had a “listed building” sta­ tus, taken from the adjoin­ ing house. To have pulled it down would have then been tantamount to a criminal act, with the listed status invalidating and therefore forcing the council to with­ draw its demolition enforce­ ment notice. In awarding Mr Horsfall


compensation to meet his expenses of taking the case to appeal, the Government report concludes: “The Sec­ retary of State has conclud­ ed that a full award of costs against the council, on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour, is justified. “The council did not


exercise sufficient care in their consideration of the planning circumstances of the alleged unauthorised development, before issuing the enforcement notice. As a result, the council’s behaviour in issuing and then withdrawing the


Escort target


WELL-equipped, well- informed thieves stole a Ford Escort RS Turbo worth £3,000 from Chat- burn Road, Clitheroe, on Monday night. The vehicle was immobilised and secure and police want anyone who saw anything suspi­ cious to contact them. The vehicle is G-registered and


red in colour.


enforcement notice is con­ sidered to have been unrea­ sonable and to have caused the appellant, Mr Horsfall, to incur wasted expense in appealing against the


notice.” Although Mr Horsfall is


to submit his compensation claim, the row over the barn, which began in Feb­ ruary, 1998, when planning permission was first grant­ ed, remains unresolved. Listed building watch­


dog, English Heritage, has suggested there is little case for allowing any re-building of the barn, as its original character has been destroyed by the work already undertaken, while council officials have sug­ gested they would be pre pared to consider a revised planning application, pro viding it was for an alterna­ tive use to a home such as holiday lets or a business deemed appropriate to rural regeneration


Bucking the trend


PARISH councillors in Whalley have bucked the last three years' trend of keeping the village's council tax precept at the same amount - by reducing it. Last year's precept of


£18,700 had remained the same since 1996, but this year's figure has been reduced to £18,000.


° iC 5 W S. HayhJrst (U) 6 ( Iw ) : I. a cmn rK defeat for leaders Royal British Legion


League First Di\T^on. _ . above j^ o n , who now Billington A and Talbot B ™° rlifcheroe conservative Ai


Pendle Club. B; Billington AvSlaidbum.


fixtures Moor B; Downham v


i Clitheroo Conservative B 48; 5, Dmmtan146p6, Club 38; 8, Police, Low Moor B34N0,^7addingto


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(20) 60; I. Middleton (21) 46, R. Turner (21) 61, R. Alston t-d) ud,r. Clark (-13) 35; S. Duckworth (-17)


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61, J. Whitford (21) 75; R. Procter (12) 75, C. Gorzella (26) 59.


WINTER LEAGUE RESULTS


RIBBLE VALLEY LADIES' DARTS


Low Moor 11, RBL 1; Brown


Cow 7, Catholic SC 5; Craven A 4, Langho FC 8; Station 8, Bridge Inn 4; Billington BC 6, Craven B 6; Bay Horse 9, Black Bull (Old Langho) 3. High Scores: 140 - J. Cunlitfe, R. Hayward; 133 - M. Bowman; 128 +100 - L. Cook; 126 - 1. Seed; 120 +113 - J. Peace; 113 - J. Hamer; 106 - L. Shoreman; 105 - C. Tunaley, S. Flannery; 100 x 2 - A. Bellanca; 100 - L. Johnson, S.


Passmore, L. Celestial. Pat Dobson Competition


Craven B 2, Langho FC 10;


• 3, CSC 47; 4, Station 44; 5, Craven A 42; 6, Brown Cow 41; 7, Bridge,


Bridge Inn v Billington BC no result; Catholic SC 7, Kings Arms 5; Low Moor 7, Station 5. High Scores: 135 - K. Peel, B. Parker; 134 - D. Steven­ son; 122 - B. Speak; 121 - A. Webster, E Dewhuret; 116 +100 - M. Livcscy; 100 - L. Brooks, L. McDonald. POINTS AND POSITIONS 1, Low Moor 62; 2, Langho FC 61;


Legion, Billington BC, Craven B 40; 11, Bay Horae 36; 12, Kings Arms 34; 13, Black Bull (Old Langho) 25.


CLITHEROE AND


DISTRICT DARTS LEAGUE TABLES


First Division P W L P


The Dog................ 8 7 1 53 Kings A................. 7 6 1 44 PendleA........ . 8 7 1 ‘12. Royal Oak...... . 8 3 5 39 Craven.................. 8 3 5 32 Black Horse....... 8 3 5 28 Mangrove.......... 8 2 6 28 Judge....................


Second Division P W L P


7 0 7 12


Kings B.............. 8 7 1 47 Pendle Witch..... 8 6 2 43


Swan..................... 8 5 3 38 Brown Cow A..... 8 4 4 36 BBC A.................. 8 3 5 35 Bay Horse.......... 8 3 5 35 Black Bull.......... 8 3 5 35 Brown Cow B..... 8 1 7 23 Third Division P W L P


Buck..................... 7 6 1 46


New Inn............. 7 6 1 40 Brown Cow C............ 7 5 2 33 BBCB.................. 7- 4 3 31


Pendle B............ f 2 4 26 HorscShoe......... 7 2 5 23 Starkics.................


7 1 6 22


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