14 Clitheroe Advertiser&Times, Thursday, December 4th, 2008 . A few thoughts


about the market I COULD say a lot about the mar-, ket,’but would be here all night; ■ ■


- First, they should have left the market’where it was.and put a cov-; ered area over it using the walls that are already there;


. ■: . r , vSecond, put the parking where the


market is now instead of., th a t pathetic building. : Third; you go up Moor Lane,


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.• down Parson-Lane to Station Road then turn right on to the car park, when coming out you turn right or left to Bawdlands then either up


, King Street or go past the bus sta- . . tion out^of town. . ; F o u rth , make Castle S treet a pedestrian walkway to King Lane and Kjng Street. i


F ifth , in Station Road for the-


pedestrians put an up-and-over walkway for everybody then they . are not stopping the flow of traffic and put barriers all the way down so nobody can cross. ; Sixth, Moor Lane - p ut barriers


up on the left or bollards all the way from top to bottom to stop parking. ; And that is only the start. Instead •


of all the so-called do-gooders and council staff from, out of town, get someone local. - ' .


' I always go out of town to either:


. Otley, Ilkley, Skipton or Harrogate ■ to do my shopping. This town is and always will be pathetic while we have. ■ this lot in charge. Get rid as soon as • possible.


IAN COOPER, Edisford Road, Clitheroe


Clitheroe needs


something to offer WITH reference to your front page ■ article about national stores coming into Clitheroe. I wholeheartedly agree as I have stated in your letters,


I section in the past.. ' We can only benefit from this. Clitheroe is a town suffering. I t


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- needs to offer something for local people. Why are we spending our hard


earned money elsevvhere? Because Clitheroe does not provide the shops for the necessities th a t we need at a reasonable price. Clothes are expensive and choice


is few, especially for a man, shoes are the same. I don’t want to go out of town,


but I have no choice. Christmas is coming and we need to buy.our presents. Where, apart from Wool- worths, can you buy th e la te s t games console? , We pay top prices because i t ’s


Clitheroe. You only heed to com­ pare the petrol prices. I t must be possible to allow these: • companies into our town centre to


' nestle in ■with our lovely local shops.^ Skipton does this with great'sue-^ cess. I t is always busy and bustling.- Is th is not what we want for Clitheroe? ; As for pedestrianisationv yes


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please. I t is awful walking through^ th e town centre and even worse dri-ving through.


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? Cars are already double parked in ; Castle Street because;people park-


: . th e ir cars outside Cowman’s and A: Boots. People”are'trying to cross the road through parked cars.""'


;: ;;:lJParking may. not. be an issue if we v.-could oKer'a park'and:ride service, ■


•' perhaps from the old Barker’sNurs- .■ery'on-Whalley Road, or from th e ; ,„,l|ink 59site.'


This, thought fills


me with horror! ■"GOULD town attract big name stores?"


'■ v I was horrified to read your


leader of November 27th; 2008. " - Do we want Clitheroe to become


like hundreds of other towns, with pedestrian precincts filled with the same array of shops? I think not. . The charm of Clitheroe is that it


is not like anywhere else and, superficially a t least, the town cen­ tre has changed little in 100 years. The attached picture of King


Street, dating from about 1905, is instantly recognisable. Will it still be,recognisable in another 100 ■ years? Not if we fill it with "Big Name Stores." ■ •


TONY GOODBODY, Hawthorns, Wuddington Road, Clitheroe


So, le t’s see some sense before


: Clitheroe dies completely. We must serve-the local people as well as


; looking after the tourist. We are proud folk in Clitheroe, so give us a town to be proud of.


CHRIS JACKSON, Littlcmoor Road, ■ Clitheroe


....... In my opinion -


Bah, humbug! THE genius consultants.on the


■ “Local Development Framework’’ conclude th a t a proportion of the available spend in Clitheroe is spent;


• locally in the town centre and the, rest in out of town locations and- elsewhere.


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• Br illiant.; I t : would be more’ encouraging for them to “twig”, the fact th a t shoppers would not be driven away .if more reasonable, parking existed. By amazing deduc--


' tion, folks from other places may^ also want to ■visit our lovely town. A fool could identify at least 50 extra' street parking places in Clitheroe


, town centre with revision of yellow - lines and street furniture inserts., Could we not also have democra­ cy and support from councillors so


■ that disastrous pedestriahisatiori or silly:schemes such as'changing: ::Moor Lane are not implemented-


. unless majority, voted for, by the rel-' ■ evant residents and businesses,- ■vvhich certainly is not the' current analysis? : If the co n su lta n ts have their


; plans introduced, in conjunction • with shop rents remaining unrealis-: tic, , then there is little likelihood of


.■ a “congestion charge’’ ever being ■ necessary in.Clitheroe, b u t then


• perhaps the councillors would vote : i for a levy to be introduced for even : ' entering the Ribble Valleyl. ■


• No d o u b tr th e se '“ex p e r ts ,’-’ to. All cut and dried


from the outset I AM one of the older retired busi­ ness peoplein Clitheroe.


‘ ;; D. Lord and Son will be 108 years old at the New Year. I have watched with interest the outcome of the new parking in Moor Lane. ;■ K - ■


;.; =years, but what has been dohe:in • Moor Lane is an outrage; n o t a ’ change for the better. ,


: • The powers th a t be in-Preston i ’ think they know about how things tick in a country market town,: Pre-


[ ■.the one in Lowergate being used," only very rarely? - Yes, we were all given the chance


In my younger days we had park­


ing at both sides of the road. I realise tha t traffic has increased over the


many other residents of Calder-


. stones Park, including many other . villagers, are severely concerned.


, -with the effects the proposed devel-• ■ opment of 60 new homes on Calder-, stones Park will have, not only on - the existing development, but on the ■village as a whole. • We are concerned about the over crowding of our village schools/doc-


/ tors/dentists, the increased traffic to and through our village and the added risk to the safety of our vil­ lage children and other residents and visitors alike. To broad, brush : call mcj and other concerned vil-


- ston being a city. Disabled parking is ■ ,^:fine (loading bays) has anyone seen


- to have our. say- No'one; listens.. I t ’s Si all cut and dried before'^ begin. w«.5.I'hope;that business people in :


. “Moor Lane will not have to sue for [' loss of trade. We used to have a town . 'to be proud of. I only.hope th a t Ssomeone is not knocked,down get- i ting out of their car. The only thing good to come out of it all is the pave-. ments. ' - ^


IS • Progress, is'that what you call i t ! :


;’f PAULINE LORD"(MRS), D.)Lord and Son, ."-N ' ‘‘i--- ’ . Moor Lane, s - Clitheroe :


This is not about being a NIMBY


[ I AM drawn to reply to the anony-' mous letter "A little bit of their own . medicine’’. - November 27th, for two


-'. reasons, firstly because I am express- >: ly cited in it and secondly because ■ :, the writer seems to have no grasp of


; attempt to justify their, importance, - ■will go on their blinkered and merry! -way. Bah. Humbug! _


JOHN AUSTER, Hillside Close," Clitheroe -


the issue th a t ! am campaigning about. I ■ _ • ' -


: ' The writer clearly.has their own ■ agenda'and makes'rude and d is - ' ;, paraging remarks about a broad sec-


: : tion of the local community -with no V evidential m'erit 'whatsoever. ■ ^The simple'fact is th a tT ,'an d


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• • lagers "NIMB Y's" is not only factu­ ally iftcorrect but insulting. ' From experience I can also state [ that it is not only "Chelsea tractors"


[. that unfortunately speed through : ourvillage.


.. I t seems to me to be clear from your le tte r th a t you are merely addressing your own selfish concerns and, clearly, have an issue with the


' residents of Calderstones Park as a whole. Why this would be is not suf­ ficiently expressed in your letter. To be clear, the residents of


Calderstones Park, so far as I am - aware, had nothing to do with its pi;iginal. develppment, but merely


,:;.wished to live in a pleasant area and ., bring up their children in a safe sur- rounding,'the same way, I suspect,


' as all residents of the village do. In fact I regularly enjoy a pint with the' original leaders of CRAG who are satisfied with the way that the cofn- munity has now turned out due to their influence and input.- We, as a development, are also a


very positive contributor to the vil­ lage and village life. Look at the fan- ■ tastic changes to the -village centre over the last 10 years along with the resurgence of the Aspinall Arms,


- Three Fishes, Mitton Hall and other local businesses. I aril certainly not ■ saying this to solely due to th e


:. development a t Calderstones Park,' . but it clearly has been a contribut- ■ ing factor. I also know from personal' experience, which has been ade­ quately recorded and documented in ' this paper, tha t many of the resi- dents are, and have been, regular


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f: a wliola t f e Sporting its"schopls,‘%*sinesses arid-


'i^^humerous charitable causes."Calder- ; stones Park is as much a valued par^ of Whalley'as any other part. -


; :|- If the writer was, truly concerned ' ■' with tHe-village as a whole,'and the - impact this proposed nevv develop-' . ment wiil have on i t, th en they /should voice their concerns directly .


to John M a cholc 'the. planning- department of-Ribble-Valley quoting


reference nuniber 03/2008/0826 I certainly do not wish to hold any


debate with an anonymous party -via


- :the pages.ofthis ■valuable paper, but if the writer, or any other concerned;


villager, would like to contact me directly then please do so on 07776 202 306 or a t the following: andrew- bury@ilands.co.uk. ;


ANDREW BURY,


■Ribbleton Grove, ' Caldcrstoncs Park, Whalley | S


• Save the grounds


--and the flowers I AGREE -with Miis Openshaw (Let-


'ters, November 20th); ; Not only should we try to preserve


:_at least the facade of the Clitheroe ■ Hospital, blit also we should save our snowdropslwhich are such a pleasure every spring. I live in Chatburn Road and wait to.see them in time


- for mybirthday every year.. . //irWe d o n 't want them going the same way as the cherry trees in the Castle grounds - chopped down before anyone,knew anything about it;


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There must be a sjnnpathetic way to develop ;the hospital grounds


'without ruining' its approach. The • building would make lovely flats, and the trees, drive and grounds, including th e snowdrops, would


' make ah attractive featime. . 'Ropiri should be made for this, despite what the Contrarian says.


PENNY MONK (MRS), Chatburn Road,. Clitheroe .


Goheerns oyer the


state of trees A SHORT time ago I spoke to a tree


^ adviser- to Ribble Valley; Borough Council about'the state of the trees. which border the footpath across the Caistle Field parallel with, the rail- vvay ■ All through the summer 20 to 30,


^ p l in ^ have grown from the roots of thffie trees.- I-khdw nothing about ■; the cultivation of trees; but my com-' in b i^ n ^ tells me if this is allowed to continue; i t will cause severe damage to the main tree,


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; ;-Myrtree 'ad-viser bid riot reply. - Do Ribble Valley Borough Coun-;


cil, Clitheroe Town Couricil, Keepers . of the Castle,'intend to let the gar­ dens return to natuie in their efforts ; to tu rn th e Castle into a tp u r is t ;; attraction .which brings in' revenue,. - which well kept garderis don’t? -


H. DUCKWORTH,' Castle 'View,


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