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Clitheroe Residents’ Action Group welcomes the news of a legal challenge against the decision to surround Standen Hall with 1,040 houses. I’m sure most Clitheroe
residents will applaud the at tempt by Newclose Properties Ltd to halt the building of this - carbuncle of an estate on the edgeofourtown. For the first time in a long ■
while it appears somebody is . siding with local residents in stead of consistently ignoring them.
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•Hundreds oftownsfolk ob
jected to this application, and ■ more than 2,000 signed a peti- •
tionagainsttheStandensuper estate. RVBC chose'to ignore all those local voices. '. Of the village councillors
who voted in favour, only two " had the courage of their con victions to explain how they had arrived at a decision. I can only assume the rest adopted a sheep mentality!
bv Steve Rush, chairman of Clitheroe Residents’ Action Group
As I See It... This is the same planning
committee who gave permis sion for Aldi to build a new su permarket on Whalley Road -or did they?
• It is true permission was
granted, but with a proviso that an access road had to be built on land Aldi does not own.: I’m not sure how that’s pos
sible, but perhaps RVBC plan ning department has come up with a new tactic. Grant plan
ning permission, but add an unachievable extra require ment. What a pity it didn’t think
of that before all our green open space disappeared. On average the new Aldi
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’ store will have around 100 people shopping at any one time, with 50-60 cars on the carpark. Thenewi,04oStand- en Estate will have over3,ooo residents and 2,000 cars. Here’s the anomaly. Both
applicants are required to provide two accesses. If Aldi requires two entrances, the
'super estate surely requires many more. Apparently not in the,eyes of RVBC! Waddow View raises its
ugly head again with a re vised plan to satisfy the inspector who refused an initial appli cation. A decision arrived at after RVBC got cold feet and bailed out of the appeal proc ess, leaving local residents took up the gauntlet. . Our three local landowners •
are still very keen to line their pockets by building another 275 houses, but will, of course, oifer the obligatory “consulta tion” at which residents will reiterate there is no require
pletely ignored and the ap plication put forward. The question is: will the Core
ment for any further housing. This message will be com
Strategy beinplacebefore the application is submitted? if it
is, we have been led to believe it will save us from this type of opportunistic application. If it’s not-why not? I wish Newclose Properties
Ltd every success with its at tempt to stop Standen Estates destroying what is left of our countryside. Whilst I’m sure it will have
every angle covered, if CRAG can be of any assistance along the way we would be only too pleased to help. After all they mightlistentous! Oh and by the way, still no
sign of a public meeting on the Core Strategy or any oth er housing issues! Come on Coun Hill, less
bluster and more informa tion please.
Youngsters at St Leonard's CE Primary School, Langho, were given aspecial lesson about the history surrounding Maundymoneybyoneofthe honour’s recipients.
Year 6 pupils.were visited by Mrs Lilian Hargreaves, of Myt- ton Fold Hotel, who is the War den Emeritus of St Leonard’s Church. Mrs Hargreaves was one
of the recipients of Maundy money from the Queen at Blackburn Cathedral. Every year, the Queen
presents Maundy money to a group of pensioners in rec ognition of their services to their local communities and churches. The children were shown
the Maundy money and Mrs Hargreaves explained the his tory surrounding it and what had happened on her visit to the cathedral. - Class teacher Lucy Holt
said: “She told the children how she
had.received the let ter and her disbelief that she
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Club s touch rugby sessions attract bumper turnouts
Atthestartof June, Clitheroe Rugby Club started a touch rugby series on the Castle field on Wednesdays evening for anyone aged 16 and over - and the re sponse has been incredible. The series has seen a combined number
of nearly i2opeople attend thefirst two sessions, made up of people aged from I6up to 50-plus.
As well as regular players from the club, the numbers have been signifi-
cantlybolsteredfrompeoplenewto the game who have just gone down to
have a run around and some fun in the process.
In some cases, athletes from other sporting clubs have turned up en bloc.
Touch rugby is a non-contact sport and really easy to pick up.
It certainly doesn't seem to have fazed those new to the game who have been already, as the growing numbers of
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The Hyndburn and Ribble Val ley pdlice cadets spent two days completing their prac tice expedition for the bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award. They set off in separate
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also doing community work like gardening and tree plant ing.
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Barrow -
25 YEARS AGO the ‘industrial village’
: “ IN A BLAZE of publicity, a plan that could create another 2,000 Ribble Valleyjobsand cost in excessol £50 m. has been relaunched. The village of Barrow is 'poised to reap the benefits o f this second industrial revolution' claim London developers Pilot Properties. To strengthen their case, they have now launched a new company, North West One, to deal exclusively with the 45-acre site. Outline plans were lodged with
Ribble Valley Council in September. Access proved to be a stumbling block and late last week the firm
submitted new plans fo r the site, with access from a proposed new roundabout on the A59. The council's
Planning and Transportation Committee will attend a presentation on the proposals on Friday."
oftown. Walking becomes the ob
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vious and easiest way to get around and to do most things. This gives me a pedestrian’s
eye view of the road and apedes- trian’s sense of speed. Iwasreallypleased when the
new 20 mph speed limit signs went up, especially on Well Ter race, which I cross twice daily. It is obviously safer for cars
togoslower.betterfortheplan- et and somehow just feels to me like a move towards great er harmony with the speed at ...
am one of the lucky peo ple who doesn’t need a car most of the time. I can catch a train to work and we live in the middle
which those of us on foot or cy cle travel. . Now, one year on, my pleas
ure at these new signs sits alongside a frustration that so few motorists seem to take no tice of them.. It is a significant change
moving from the old expecta tion of 30 mph to 20 mph - at" least one gear change down in most cars just to try andmain- tain the new slower pace-but it seems that for many it is a shift we don’t want to take. Even with lots of schoolchil
dren crossing that road, very many car drivers do not wish to slow down. Given the easy acceleration of most modern vehicles, it is
ironic that those going fastest wish to brake the least, but the logic of the convenience of the motor car has meant that we travel as fast as possible door to door, even repeatedly circu lating supermarket car parks to get a parking space closer to the store. So here’s a plea for motoring
mindfulness, that we may see the process to be as important as the task, that we come to in- habit Robert Louis Stevenson’s insight that “to travel hopefully is better thing than to arrive”. Speed may be about pleas
ure but it is often, I suggest, about destination trumping the experience of ourjourney. - Slowing down, a good max- ■
im for life in general, allows us to see more of those we travel amidst, to create better con nections,.to make better re lationships, to be among our neighbours rather than passing “them”bysealedawayinmobile tin living rooms, cut off by ster eos and mobile phones. If we can let go of some of the
desire for technology and our passion for speed, even open our windows and slow our driv ing down, I suggest we will find the divine all the more alive in the abundance that can flood in when we move at a more lei surely pace.
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