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The public inquiry conducted by planning inspector Simon Berkeley on behalf of the Gov- ernmenttojudgeRibble Valley Borough Council’s Local Plan (Core Strategy) will be well under way as this item ap pears in the paper: Members, o f the Save
Whalley Village and other campaign groups will be hop ing that this inspector takes heed of the submissions of local residents and doesn’t simply pander to the wishes of landowners and develop- ■ ers, as have his colleagues in everyother inquiry whichhas been held in the Ribble Valley over the past three years. The insidious use of the
word “town” to describe Whalley instead of “village” is typical of the methods plan; ners and developers use to try to alter people’s percep tions in order to more readily achieve an acceptance of ever more housing estates.
As I See It... by Nick Walker chairman of Save Whalley Village
It’s similar to the way we
are told that we are all now “customers” of our GP surger ies rather than patients. - We have challenged con
sultants to name another place with a population of
just over 3,000, which is con sidered to be a town. None has yet been able to do so. Nathaniel Lichfield, the
consultants employed by RVBC, were asked to explain its use of the designation of town for Whalley, but has refused to do so. ■ The people of Hawkhurst,
near Tunbridge Wells, will recognise the problem. They fought to keep their village from being named as a town,
as it would affect planning policies and encourage more development. The village won.
It is this sort of underhand
tactic which has angered people. Telling residents that their views are sought as part of a consultation, only to find that theseekingofviews ticks a box in a process but doesn’t require any action to be taken on those views bound to irritate. This is exactly what has happened with the Core Strategy process. In the wider field we have
been told that we must have more houses because of the need for affordable homes, yet developers can now apply to ditch any requirement to build them. The Prime M in is te r
has said we shouldn’t have developments of more than 30 houses plonked (his word) next to a village. Now he says that in objecting, local peo ple are denying others the
chance of buying a house. Nathaniel Lichfield has
changed the criteria it used to calculate the number of houses to be built from the last Core Strategy draft to the current one. It has done this because by using the ’ same criteria it found that we" would actually require less, not more, houses than was proposed. Another example of manipulation, but done un- der the guise of professional conclusions. Having read the issues
inspector Berkeley wants to ■ examine, I am faintly encour aged, as they seem to be is sues about which residents are concerned. Willhebetheinspectorto .
stamp “approved” on a lower figure than the borough coun cil has been advised to ac cept and ensure thereby that Whalley stays as a village and doesn’t end up as a town? It’s in his hands.
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Awell-knownSabdenfigure who pioneered the medieval role of village lengthsman in modern times, has retired. David Bridges was the first man to take on the histori cal position in the Pendle area whenhe started thejob in 1997. He worked as lengthsman in Sabdenfori6years,which . saw him walling, hedging, litter picking and carrying ' out environmental im provement work.
The age-old role also saw himwalkingeverypublic right of way in the parish to assess what work was needed to stiles, paths, kiss ing gates and walls in p oor condition. Mr Bridge attended a meet ing of village representa tives at The White Hart ' and was presented with a memento of his work by Mr David Padley, Lancashire County Council Country- side Officer.
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The annual Johnson Matthey retired employees outing this year took in the delights of the seaside with a day trip to Blackpool.
Some 57 retired employees, wives and widows enjoyed theexcursion, courtesy ofthe Clitheroe chemicals company. The day started at Clithe
roe Interchange, where the party was picked up by coach. Lunch in Blackpool was fol lowed by the opportunity for some late Christmas shop ping and then it was on to see “Scrooge-The Musical” at the Winter Gardens. After the show, the par
ty continued on to Bond’s of Elswick, where everyone en
joyed having a catch up with old friends. The retired employees out ing is an annual event open to
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Old friends from Johnson Matthey enjoyed a day out in Blackpool on the annual retired employees’ excursion, (s)
anyone who has worked at the Clitheroe site and contributed to the fund during their time of employment. The event isusuallyheldin
the summer months, but was this year arranged to coincide with a Christmas show.
Lisa Sanderson-Hughes, of
the company’s community li aison department said: “The outing helps retired work mates keep in touch and con tributes to Johnson Matthey’s community engagement poli cy. It’s a way ofthankingour re
tired employees for their loyal service over the years and our current workforce also con-' tribute to the outing fund as a way of saying thank you for laying the foundation for the successful work place that they enjoy today.”
Digital timewarp goes beyond the pale
A mobile phone or digital There are also short walks in tablet can become a time ma- the area, chine to travel back 600 years The deer parks were once inBowland.
,.... part of the Royal Forest of A new application has Bowland and were patrolled
been created by the Forest of by the park keepers and their Bowland Area of Outstanding / staff to keep the valuable fal- Natural Beauty and local low deer in and the poachers historyenthusiastsfor,“ALeap out. Over time the parks fell in the Park”, a project funded out of use, but their fascinat- by the Heritage Lottery. -
irig history can still be read Using an audio guide and j in the landscape today. Rem
an interactive map, the app nantsoftheparkboundary.or will lead visitors around two pale,canbefound,alongwith medievaldeerparksandshow place names such as Park Gate themhowthearea used to look and Pale Farm. 6ooyearsago,usingamixture . • Thenew app, and details of illustrations, photographs ofall walks, can bedownload- and historic documents.'
• ed from the AONB website There are two deer park ^
www.forestofbowland.com- •
walks, one at Leagram near For more information contact Chipping and the other at Rad- the AONB on 01200 448000 holme near Whitewell, both . or em a i l c a th y .h o p le y of around six miles in length. @
lancashire.gov.uk
'■ ■ y-i.y- JijBpsSS ✓ PavidBridgesispresentedwithamementobyDauid Padley, Lancashire County Council Countryside Officer LOOKING BACK
100 YEARS AGO Shops Act, 1912
NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the council propose
to make an order extending the provisions of section 4
of.the shops act 1912, to all shops in the borough of Clitheroe, in which the sale by retail of cooked
chipped potatoes and fried fish or either of such - articles is carried on and fixing Wednesday as the day of the weekly half-holiday for such shops, with - a proviso enabling any shopkeeper to substitute SaturdayforWednesdayonqffixinganoticeto thateffectirihisshop.Anypersonwishingtomake ■ objectiontotheorder.orsuggestionsastothe provisions of the order, should address a statement '
in writing to the clerk to the council before the 23rd day of February next"
50 YEARSAGO Attendance record
“PUPILS ATT0SSIDE School, one of the most remote schools in the Bowland area, have set a '
record for school attendance in Bowland. During
the13weeksoftheautumn term,notone of the nine pupils was absent at all, and the attendance for the whole term was 99,3 per cent Atthemeetingof •
the Bowiand Education Committee on Monday, the West Riding Education Welfare Officer told members
that a letter of congratulations 'on such a fine
: record' had been sent to the school’s headmistress. Later, the welfare officer told a reporter from the
AdvertiserandTimes thatin10years,hehadknown
of only one school with a similar record, which was Wigglesworth School some years ago."
25YEARSAGO Superstore set to open
“READY F0RTHE off... Staff at Clitheroe’s latest
superstore are all raring to go. The newTesco supermarket off Duck Street in Clitheroe, will officially open at 9 am next Tuesday with a special presentation for the first customer. Heading a staff of about 170, most of whom are local people, willbe manager Mr Peter Hampson. He is moving to the
Ribble Valley from Bolton and will live in Billington. The16,500squarefeetoffloorspacewillsellawide
range of groceries and food specialities and there will be various non-food items for the home on offer.-
. Thestore.whichwill use the latest laser checkouts, has toilets and special facilitiesfor mothers and babies".
made an undemanding places. New Year resolution: to Now in the main retired, contact two fiiends with these former youth hostel- whom I had nearly lost lers had seen the relevance touch.
• of the Christian faith as they Phoning the first led to an approached adulthood and
enjoyable Saturday bus ride no doubt had gone on to influ- in the Yorkshire Dales with . ence others.
' a short walk to a waterfall. My second conversation Emailing the second led to a waswitha43-year-oldmother 25-minute telephone conver- -of-two, who is also a spe-_ sation with a lot of catching cial needs teacher, although. up.
- ‘ . My walking friend, a re- member ofmy last church.’ .
-tired Methodist minister, . She told me, among oth- - mentioned, in response to my er things, about one of her prompting, the great reward foster brothers who, after, he had experienced in seeing a difficult time in his teens -
^some of his youth group of 50 involving drink and drugs, years agotakingtheirplaceas had become the excellent fa- , Christian ministers in various ’ ther of four children, one of
whom - a young man at col- whichsomehadinouryounger lege-sings in London’s West years are softened as life End every weekend. As we ’ teaches us to be a little more look back over our lives, we mellow, understanding and may well think of people who compassionate, were'“hard work” at times, Of course, we must be but who through those prob- aware of the opposite danger lem years have developed into- of settling for laziness and very caring and responsible complacency and losing the adults.
We may know others with once had. I knew her best as a young '
idealism and vision which we , '
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whom, in the past, we have Slippers on, feet up and the had cross words or a fraught attitude of “I’ve seen it all be- relationship, but who have fore: why bother?” is the dev- emerged as people for whom il’s temptation to the over-6os we can thank God. -
-o r indeed the over-os. They have been so spe- I like the attitude ofthe
cial and given so much. It’s all . 90-year-old Burnley woman about ripening and maturing. ■ who said: “I’ll collect for Chris- The h a rd edges and tian Aid until T drop down thoughtless way of speaking \ dead - then I’ll stop.”
A painting by artist Jennie Anderson, commisionedfbrALeap in the Park, depicts park keeper Sir Edward Stanley (centre) with his own family and the Marsden family of workers, or pallisaders, in the early 16th Century.
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