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o the planning application for affordable housing is submitted, with consultations and objec­


tions closed. It is now the turn of the planners to


decide the fate o f the proposed new Hentliom Road development. No one can deny that the Ribble Val­


ley has a requirement for houses that are affordable, so people born in the area are not forced to move away or live at home with their parents. We used to have Council Houses to


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meet this need... until someone sold them all! However, this affordable housing scheme is nothing more than a smoke­ screen, as not all the development meets affordability. The application is for 270 new homes


to be built, but who will afford them. This scheme requires only 30% of any new de­ velopment to be affordable. Therefore the Henthorn Road site will consist of 81 af­ fordable homes and 189 that are presum­ ably unaffordable? Of the 189 unaffordable houses, dif­


fering sizes of up to five bedrooms will be built and attract 189 new families to Clitheroe. Can our services cope with all


looking back 100 years ago


MEMBERS of Blackburn and District Incorporated Chamber of Commerce stated that they were willing to assist the Clitheroe corporation to get an improved train service to the town from Blackburn. Councillor Carter said that the only al- teption they were able to get was the


reinstatement of the 7-47 service in the evening. ® Regarding the feeding of local


schoolchildren, it was ascertained that public funding was not available to cover the full cost of meals needed and an ap­ plication would be made for “an amount that will meet the cost of the provision of such food”.


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these new residents? The answer, quite obviously, is no. Education and NHS budgets have been


frozen by the coalition government, so how and where are all the extra children to be educated? How long will it take to see a doctor? How will our already sub-stand­ ard roads cope with the extra traffic and where will we all park? An increase to our carbon footprint would be unavoidable. Interestingly the developers state, that


people living on this new estate will be discouraged from using a car! Instead they will encourage residents to walk, cycle or use public transport. Who will implement this brainwave?


Possibly a, sentry will posted on the en­ trance to prevent cars leaving the estate. In the hours of darkness are people walk­ ing up the narrow lane to be provided with


miners’ helmets and flashing lights fnr their umbrellas?


Now imagine over 2,000 new houses be­


ing built across the Ribble Valley (the bulk of them in Clitheroe). That’s the plan. Only 600 will be affordable and at least 1,400 new residents will flood the area. If you live on the edge of an estate


that overlooks green fields - beware' You could find yourself in the same posi­ tion as the Fairfield Drive residents. The Henthorn development is classed as an extension to an existing estate because new and old merge into one. In fact, given the amount o f proposed new prop'ertv, anyone with a garden should check each morning that they have not inherited a new house overnight. Our saving grace is that Ribble Valley


borough councillors and the planning committee are not stupid people. 1 am sure they will recognise the inherent dan­ gers this so-called “affordable housing” scheme represents to Clitheroe and the whole of the Ribble Valley. As such I am sure this application will


be turned down and a genuine affordable housing scheme investigated, where every new house built is affordable to Ribble Valley residents seeking their own home.


THE elderly resi­ dents of The Manor House, in Chatburn, helped by the staff, have been growing tomatoes, peppers, parsley and straw-


The tomato plants


were donated by pu­ pils of Ribblesdale High School and Technology College, who had learned about growing plants under the supervi­ sion of Mrs Angela Moyles. At the end of term,


the plants were taken to the Manor House where residents were delighted to have the opportunity to con­ tinue the youngsters’ good work. They soon hope


to invite some of the pupils back to The Manor House to sample what they started to grow.


GOING GREEN: Residents Jean Chambers (left) and Maria Armas picking the fruits of their labour together with other green-fingered residents.(s)


Inspirational author 50 years ago


HOUSES in the Whalley Road clearance area began to topple 50 years ago this week. The area, one of the oldest parts of the town, was between Whalley Road and Queen’s Road, taking in the streets of Marlborough, Grimshaw and Harrop and all the allotments behind. • Hodder Valley Show, held by the riv­


erside in Slaidburn, was for the agricultur­ al purist. It was a show with no gimmicks, the only things to attract the layman were the exhibits, the horse jumping and, of course, the delightful setting. Mr James Read, of Slaidburn, won the Hanson Cup for the best dairy bull. Mr Clem Seed, of Dunsop Bridge, took the reserve.


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enough to wear it and from the sheer joy of watching a long line of wool turn into a piece of clothing, I unravelled it and did it ■ again. It felt like magic. I have less time than I would like to just


sit and make things, but I have come to realise the value of knitting. It is creative


and meditative and, best of all, knitting is slow. I hadn’t put this into words but was of­


fered book on “Zen” and knitting and understood what I had been doing. It has never really been “in” and it has never been something I have been very “out” about, but knitting had helped me to deal with stress at various times and to have an amazingly relaxing way to vent creativity. So it was no surprise really to be sitting


in a Meeting for Worship with a picture of perfect, cream, cotton, stocking stitch in my mind’s eye. As I looked at the piece I


thoughtfortligweel I


LOVE to knit. I must have been a strange child because at eight years old I knitted a cardigan for my baby sister and then, both because she was not yet big


25 years ago


PLANS for the new Ribble Valley Coun­ cil Chamber and Mayor’s Parlour were unveiled at a special meeting. Assuranc­ es were given that the building in Church Street would be developed in sympathy with existing architecture and adjoining buildings. Building on the former Myt- ton House site was possible following the council’s acceptance of an “undisclosed sum” for the old town hall building. 9 The Clitheroe Auction Mart site


would not be used for any major shop­ ping development after the company’s move to Salthill, it was revealed. The site was affected by covenants restricting cer­ tain types of schemes.


CLITHEROE Library’s teenage read­ ing group was thrilled to be joined by local author Robert Williams. The Bookies Reading Group read


Robert’s first novel “Luke and Jon” for the August meeting and were pre­ sented with the opportunity to put questions and comments to the author himself, who is a former pupil of Clit­ heroe Royal Grammar School. Along with discussions about the


story, Robert also talked about what is involved in writing, editing and pub­ lishing a novel, providing a fascinating insight for'some keen young writers. “Luke and Jon” is aimed at teen­


agers. Written in the first person, through the eyes of a young boy, the book is about the thoughts and expe­ riences of a boy who starts a new life with his toy-maker father, after the sudden death of his mother.


BUDDING WRITERS: Robert (centre) speaks to children from the library’s reading group about his book, (s)


Vital volunteers


VOLUNTEERS make a vital contribu­ tion to all communities here in the Rib­ ble Valley.


Ho\yeveryou help and even if you have


only a couple of hours spare per week, there could be an opportunity for you to make a real difference to someone’s life. Lancashire County Council offers all


of its volunteers full support, training. Criminal Records Bureau checks and the opportunity to obtain qualifications. By volunteering, you can gain experience, new skills and knowledge to use when ap­ plying for jobs or college and university. Open house roadshows will be held by


the council’s Voluntary Service at Sales- bury Village Hall, October 14th (12-30 to 4 p.m.); Gisburn Festival Hall, November 11th (9-30 a.m. to 2 p.m.); and Whalley Village Hall, December 9th (11 a.m. to 3-30 p.m.). For more information visit www.lancashire.gov.uk/volunteer. Alter­ natively, e-mail joanne.szostak@Ianca- shire.gov.uk or call 01257 248118.


Hunt is on for giant sunflower


noticed a dropped stitch - how much does that distract you if you are a knitter? Perhaps we all do it, focus on the prob­


lems, the bad news, the stress and not the p o d and the celebration. There we are looking at something perfect, and then we


notice the flaw and then that is all there is.


Buddhists, amongst other groups, talk


of the monkey mind”; this describes a mind that jumps from thought to thought like a monkeyjumps from tree to tree The monkey mind is not content with existing m t p present moment, but rather engages in the thoughts that pass through.


Often these thoughts are a flow of eve­


ryday things, sometimes a circle of diffi- p l t issues going round and round in our heads. In different kinds of meditative practice it is possible to settle the monkey mind, to stop these thoughts.


^ I wonder if, as well as monkey mind


w ^ suffering from a monkey body’ We are under such pressure to do, do


do. Pressure from the world and pressure


from within ourselves to “do well”, to be successful, to have a career, a nice house, big car, good social life, perfect family, or whatever. How do we have the time just to be?


Are we running ourselves ragged trying for “perfection”? So there is the knitting, cream, cotton,


perfect with its dropped stitch. What do we do? There are no knots in knitting, it is all loops, you can pull the end and it all unravels. You can even pick at one small stitch and unravel it from there if you are not careful.


Sometimes it is worth pulling the wiiole


thing back to put right mistakes that would ruin the whole piece; sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is wise not to pick at the flaws and ruin everything. With knitting, as with life, I am learning to embrace the spirituality of imperfec-


WENDY HAMPTON, Sawley Quakers


CLITHEROE resi­ dent, Steve Davies, is on the search for a sunflower bigger than his. Steve, of Highmoor


Park, wants to find out if anyone locally has managed to grow a six foot tall sunflower. “This sunflower grew


from a seed dropped from the birdtable,” he explained, referring to the one pictured. “It is 5ft 101/2 inches


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tall and the flower has a diameter of 121/2 inches. “Does anyone have


a six footer?”


STANDING TALL: Steve’s almost six-foot sunflower in all its glory, left, and its brightly coloured head, above.


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