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“End at last in right; Tm more amused than angry”. He presented himself as a hard-pressed
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proparty developar beset by irrational oppo sition and I wasringled out forgiedalmei- tion. This is my aftanative perspective on this long-rutming saga. When finished, Brockhall Village will
comprise around 370 new houses with over 1,000 adults and children. Old Langho is now as large as Chatbum or Sabden, which in contrast have developed ova a couple of . hundred years. I’m sure i t will develop into a cormnimity attractive to many. The houses appear to be selling wefl. But given all the energy its developer has devoted to it, has the development turned out as well as it could have done and if not, why not? Without doubt Gerald Hitman played a
sound tactical game and won a comprehen sive victory, running rings round our plan ners and a majority of the plarming com mittee. To him it was probably a bit like chess, moving parcels of land around the board rintil he arrived at the endgame last March with a postscript in December. He got almost everything he wanted and my views vfere completely ignored. On my reckoning he has taken a rite that
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he acquired virtually for nothing and obtained gross revenues of about £25-30_ million. Some of us might wonder quite what he has to he even slightly angry alMot? Surely the real purpose of his article wasn't to shift the blame for any imperfections in his development on to me and my col leagues? The article appear^ to blame us • for the delays in the project, the lack of a swimming pool and gymnasium, the reduced size of the village hall and the qual ity; of some of the architecture: In fact, the parish council, of which I am,
of course only one member, has been consis tent and unanimous down the years in its views on this rit^ it includes one Conserva tive borough councillor who worked a t Brockhall for over 30 years. G«ald Hitman was making mischief in introducing party politics into his article by lauding the sup-
ome time ago Gerald Hitman used this feature to give us his verson of the his tory of Brockhall under the headline
A s i s e e i t . . . by Graham Sowter
port lecaved from four local Conservatives while making an equal numbo' of negative comments about the Liberal Deinocrats. Party politics mnst play no part in planning and on my part they never have done It is expressly outlawed by legal statute and in codes of practice. Our sole purpose has been to rtiake the
Brockhall development sustainable and the hest possible place to live in the long term. We always aidorsed the long term aims for Brockhall enshrined in the Cormcil’s bespoke policy, A2. Let me list briefly a few of those policy objectives. O Redevelopment/re-use should not place
imdue pressure on local services and facili ties; a new access road to the site was required directly from the A59; the open land setting of the site must be protected and enhanced; there should be no net increase in the developed area of thesit^ the central adrrunistrative block should be pro tected and re-used if possible; additional public rights of way should be introduced within the rite. To back up these objectives, a master plan
was drawn up which provided 30 acres of accesrible 'open space within the rite These policies were drawn up in 1994 by Ribble Valley’s plarmers to guide the development. Over the years, however, we gradually moved into an Alice in Wonderland situa tion where the objectors sneh as the parish council and I were defending the council’s planning policies while the platmas increas ingly imdermined them with their regwnses to succesrive appEcations which were clearly at odds with their poEcy for the rita To anyone who knew the rite before Mr
Hitman acquired it, its main glory was the greenery and open spaca Now, despite the fact that the houses are buflt at a vHy low density, much of that sense of space has
been lost because the open areas are Emited and fragmented. Was it really necessary to
100 y ears ago
RESIDENTS in Rimington wanted a burial ground of their own in the village. Parishioners from the local chapel pro posed to acquire land next to their sanc tuary as a place of intament. For one eld erly gentleman from Twiston, who was in his 90s and had been in for years, the news was music to his ears. He apparently com mented: “If they will be quick with it,” he said, “I'll wait for ’em.” O Chatbum farmer Mr R. Frankland
claimed the distinction of first place among farmers in the locality for having the first bom Iamb of the season. This was swiftly follovpcd by the birth of a couple of Iambs at Mill Hey Farm. ® A Grindleton poultry fanner was the
talk of the village after one of his hais laid three eggs in one day. Whatever the rea son, the correspondent commented that the fowl deserved to die naturally after a fair period of superannuation!
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
TENANTS of Manor Road allotments — the site was to be used for houses — were given an assurance by Conn. J. Entwistle, chairman of the Allotments and Food Protection Committee that they would not be disturbed before October this year. The growers were wor ried about their summer crops O Was this a record? A hen b e lo n ^ g
to Mr S. Harrison, of Newton, had Imd an egg which weighed nearly 8oz. The hen was a cross-bred RI-Brown Leghorn. 9 'The happy postman was asked “Is
there a letter for me?” by the girls of the Vanderleue School - Brenda Coates, Barbara Woolnougfa, Elsie Veevers and Jean Holker. The postman was Dick Geldard and
all were playring parts in the Clitheroe Amateur Operatic Society’s production of “TuEp Time”.
build on the bowling green? In earEo- days Mr Hitman said he wanted to recreate at Brockhall the spirit of Lord Leverhulme’s celebrated villa^ of Pbrt SunEght. To do that he would have needed to devote more areas to pubEc space and the pubEc reahn." Sadly he seems to have let his developer’s drive for profit overtake those noble aims and his claim to be a champion of the aes thetic. Sad too is the fact that so fittle is left of the old fabric of the ho^ital which could have provided a valued historical countff- point to the mass of modan houses. Was it really necessary to demolish the beautEul old administration building or the large hall/theatr^ which was three times the size of the replacement that Gaald now feels is too modest? And most crudally, where have the 30 acres of opai giace gone? My ovHTiding parspective on BrockhaD is
of an opportunity lost 'The drive to fit more and more houses onto the site (most of them large and detached) has devoured the acres and rendered the objective of “an open land setting” stiEbom. Ironically it is the hospi tal houring in Brookride and TjarkhiE huEt ova- 50 years ago that enjqy a much more
. opensetting Anotho- irony is that the “extra” houses
buflt at Brockhall have been a major factor in Ribble VaEqy exceeding its new housing quota, resulting in the current “moratori um” on virtually aE new buSding in the bor ough. Thae has been, so far, only one breach of the moratorium, forablockof 26 houses- and yes, you've guessed it, it was in the last big appEcation at Brockhafl. I t was present ed to Planning Comrnittee without officers making it plain that thK was a breach. When I look back on all my hours of
effort in trying to achieve a greener and more sustainable outcome at BrockhaB, I am sad, but have no regrets. I feel I have ranained true to the original virion, but pw- haps imderestimated how hard i t is to resist a detomined developa: I hope our plann«s have learned a few lessons toa ® THE original article referred to was
published in the CBtheroe Advertiser and 'Times on Aprfl 13th, last year, a t which time
CouTL Sowter requited the r i ^ t to reply- Editor ■
awards ceremony. John Green, from Highmoor Park, was
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named “Dealmaier of the Year” a t North West Business Insider magazine’s annual TjvncashinpDFalinaVpr Awanl<; The former Clitheroe Royal Grammar
School pupE, who is managing director of Pierce Corporate Finance Ltd in Blackburn, also headed the team which retained the Cor porate Finance Advisory Team of the Year award. More than 300 corporate finance, hanking
Airborne hero’s flying visit
burn. Ribble Valley war veteran Thomas
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Dugdale was there to present a very spe cial framed photo of the treasured Lan caster Bomber he pEoted during the Sec ond World War: Tom, vvho lives in Dutton ilanor, near
Ribchest^, chose to donate the norialgc photograph after the leading northern brewery suppEed a very giecial reunion with some free beer - with a famous name. Inscribed on the back of the photo,
Tom, who trrrns 85 in June, has written: “This pictnre is ^-en to Thwaites Brew ery in recognition of their provision of Lancaster Bonflier beer lor the final din ner of the Manchester Branch of the Bomber Command Assodation.” Speaking to the CEtheroe Advertiser,
he added: “The crates were gratefully received for what was probably the last meeting before the group disbands next month. Donating the lovely picture was the least I felt I could do in return.”
25yearsago
ONE of Ribble Valleif’s historic coimtry homes and grounds was to become the setting for an 18-hole golf course and lesi- dential clubhonse: Tlie ambitious trans formation, which was estirnated to cost at least £250,000, was th e idea of Mr Christopira- Hindley, owner of Gishurne Park. Althon^ it was anfldpated it could take about two years to complete, it could lead to the creation of 40 j o ^ • A Ribble Valley vicar was quitting
his two cormtry parishes after a “differ ence of opinion” with his churchwardens. Only 14 months after his induction, the Rev: George Robert Wood told a congre gation at St Bartholomew’^ in Chipping and St Michael’s, in Whitewell, that he wotEd be leaving His dedsion foEowed a meeting between 56-year-old Mr Wood and his churchwardens a t Chipping who expresed concern at the vicar’s image and some of his attitudes.
NE of a sadly dwindEng band of airborne heroes made a flying virit to T hwar ts Brewery, in Black
The photo of the Lancaster A4E of ‘C’
F h ^ t , 115 Squadron (EEnEy) was taksi alongside the Control Caravan by the runway at RAF Witchford, near Ely, a t sunset on a night raid to Stuttgart in
■ July 1944. I t wEl now be gven pride of place in the brewery museum. By the time Tom had successfully fin
ished his toiir in November 1944, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the “lucky” aircraft had completed 90 operations. ■The father-of-two, who joined the'
RAF at 19, trained as a pEot in Pensaco la, Florida, and got his “lo'vely golden” American Navy Wings at the age of 21. .Mter leaving the forces in 1961, he
became a flying instructor a t the Lan cashire .Aero Chib - the oldest in the country - and was appointed club preri- dent in 1991. He stilTgoes out flying today with his daughter, but pEoted his last ffight in 1985 after developing heart troubla Our picture shows Tom handing over
his treasured photograph to Th-waites m a n a ^ g director Brian Hickman and his assistant Joan Halse. (s)
T H O U G H T for the week
the nesvs recaitly. One of the more bizarre com-
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mQits 1 read vvas someone writing in a netvspapa- calling on people not to allow thor briMs to aifect thrir bdiavioun Behaviour is alwajs governed
by beheL This morning when I came to write this article I bcheved that when I came into my study that my house would be connected to the National Grid, ^ving me electricity enough to Hght my housa I acted on that belief by pushing a switch and
NE caimot have f^ed to notice that rehgion and behds have been much in
Keep to our beliefs
sure enough the hght came on. Whether you are a Secularist, a
Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, an Atheist or an Agnostic, you -wfll act on what you behev'a Behefs and behaviour are inextricably
: linkedandthishasbeenafoirefor both good and evil in our world throu^out our history in ah cul- tuns and rdigons. I write as a Christian and this
year wc celebrate the 200tb anniversary of the abolition of riavety. William 'WilberfOTce ■was a Christian who, acting on his bdie^ worked for 30 years to pct- suade Govermnent to outlaw this practice On the other hand we
remember too the Crusades, a bloody time of conquest in our Christian history. It seems to me that a Govern
ment that .seeks to ride ron^iriiod over people’s beEefe, throu^ leg islation that controls behaviour, shoiEd beware Firstly, le©riation will result in the briids of onesec- tion of the community taimping another section. Secondly, it may wdl hinder the
works of service in our communi ties that is such a force for good. FinaEy, how should we regjond
to those who do not share our befids? This wedc we enter the season
of Lent. We would do well to remember Christ’s attitude to those who didn’t agree with Him. Firstl3; He wasn’t afraid to state His casa He was ringle-minded, uncompromising. Secondly, he treated others with compasrion. Yes, there were disagreements, but Christ continued to serve Hiis riiould be the way that we
foUovc It is not an ea^ way. I t is a way that led Christ to the cross, but it is a ■way that is foBmved by millions and a way that has shaped our culture. Let us not be ashamed of iL ■
REV. MASK PICKETT, Vicar of Si James’, Clilhcroe
and l^ a l profesrionals from across the county attended the ceremony, which was held a t Ewood Park, Blackburn. John, who is cap tain of Chtheroe Cricket Club’s second team and a member of Chthmoe Golf Club, said: “I am ovajriyed with the award wins. “We have been proud to have worked with
some great companies across all types of deals; sales, mergers and acquisitions and management buyouts. “We have a great team here and these
awards are down to everyone’s sinll and com mitment The future looks great not orEy for Pierce, but for the whole Lancashire corpo rate finance community.” North West Business Inrider is the re^on’s
largest buriness pubheation. The magazine judged the awards by carrying out research amongst Lancashire’s deal makers and polled votes from hanks, accountants, law firms, venture capitalists and specialist corporate finance boutiques.. Pictured is John Green receiving his Deal-
maker of the Year award from Elaine Hurn, managing partner a t Taylors Sohdtors. (s)
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