CLEAN ROOF UK ROOF COATINGS

PLANNING applications lodged with Rochdale Borough Council up to the week ending November 12 include:

● AN application has been submitted partretrospectively for a part two-storey/part singlestorey side and rear extension, and patio above the lower ground floor rear extension, at 918 Oldham Road, Rochdale. ● DETAILS have been submitted to comply with conditions involving materials, boundaries, landscaping, site investigation, parking, drainage, construction hours, gpdo, and noise levels, in relation to a previously submitted application at land adjacent to 1 Gillbrook Way, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for prior notification for a singlestorey extension, measuring 4.5m from the rear of the original dwelling, with a maximum height of 3.8m, and a height to the eaves of 2.7m, at 1 Marland Old Road, Rochdale. ● DETAILS have been submitted to comply with conditions involving drainage, levels, parking areas, and tree protection, in relation to a previously submitted application at land at Royle Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a single-storey side and rear extension, following the demolition of the existing detached garage, at 23 Thornham New Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been resubmitted for alterations to the roof, including an increase in ridge and eaves height, rear dormer extension, and alterations to the fenestration on the front elevation, at 168 Ramsay Street, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for the installation of two air source heat pumps, including plant room and 3m high acoustic fence, at Rochdale Leisure Centre, Entwisle Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a certificate of lawfulness for a single-storey rear extension, and rear dormer extension, with the addition of a rooflight to the front elevation, at 123 Rugby Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for one air source heat pump, enclosed by a 3m high acoustic fence, located on the south west side of the school building, at Shawclough Community Primary School, Thrum Hall Lane, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for the erection of a 1 x 2 metre high pedestrian access free standing alley gate to the rear of 453 Whitworth Road, and the erection of a 1 x 2 metre high vehicle access free standing alley gate to the side of 435 Whitworth Road, at 435-453 Whitworth Road, Rochdale.

● AN application has been resubmitted for a two-storey front extension, at 2 Rose Hill, Ashmount Drive, Rochdale. ● DETAILS have been submitted to comply with a condition involving materials, in relation to a previously submitted application at 182 Milnrow Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for the installation of two air source heat pumps, enclosed within a 3m high acoustic fence, at Lowerplace Primary School, Kingsway, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a two-storey side and rear extension, at 126 Croxton Avenue, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a certificate of lawfulness for a single-storey side and rear extension, and rear dormer extension, including alterations to the fenestration, at 12 Leighton Avenue, Littleborough. ● AN application has been submitted for a single-storey rear extension, at Redeswood, Buckley Hill Lane, Milnrow.

● AN application has been submitted for prior notification for a singlestorey extension, measuring 4m from the rear of the original dwelling, with a maximum height of 3.65m, and a height to the eaves of 2.37m, at 16 Beechfield Road, Milnrow. ● AN application has been submitted for a single-storey rear and side extension, at 58 Croft Head Drive, Milnrow. ● AN application has been submitted for a single-storey rear extension and raised patio, with the addition of rooflights, including alterations to the fenestration, at 14 Harewood Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a first floor single-storey side extension, including the addition of a Juliet balcony to the rear elevation, at 12 Whittaker Lane, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a first floor single-storey front and rear extension, including alterations to the fenestration, at 3 Enfield Close, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for prior notification for the installation of a 25m monopole supporting six apertures and four dish antennae, including associated ancillary development, at land off Rochdale CLS, Bridgefold Road, Rochdale. ● AN application has been submitted for a first floor single-storey front extension, including the addition of a Juliet balcony to the side elevation, at 37 Riverstone Bridge, Littleborough. ● AN application has been resubmitted for a two-storey side extension, at 8 James William Street, Littleborough. ● DETAILS have been submitted to comply with conditions involving materials, and surface and foul water drainage, in relation to a previously submitted application at 452 Halifax Road, Wardle, Rochdale. ● AN application has been resubmitted for a rear dormer extension, including the raising of the roof ridge height, and the insertion of a new window to the side elevation, at 19 Birch Hill Crescent, Wardle, Rochdale.

MOORHOUSE METHODISTS

TODAY, Saturday, November 27, commencing at 4pm until 6pm, the minister is holding another “Messy Church” which is a fun time of worship and crafts.

We have tea together and it is open to all families, children, their parents, grandparents or carers.

There is no charge but people can make a donation.

Please note that children must be accompanied by an adult.

For further details please contact 01706 642 943.

Tomorrow is Advent Sunday, November 28, so our morning Circuit Service commences at 10.30am and will be held at St Andrews Church, 46 Entwisle Rd, Rochdale, OL16 2HZ.

The Advent Reflection Days will continue on Wednesdays 10am until 11am, December 1, 8, and 15.

These reflection days will be held at Trinity Methodist Church, William Henry Street, Rochdale.

This will be a time of reflection and prayer in preparation for Christmas.

We will share refreshments, worship, conversation and fellowship.

Feel free to join us; you do not need to attend all of them.

For further details contact Andy on 01706 642 943.

If you are still unsure about the government’s and Methodists’ more recent Covid guidelines and need more information, then you can telephone 01706 644 134.

For additional information our Facebook page is still online.

TRINITY METHODISTS

“COME, you longexpected Jesus, born to set all people free, from our fears and sins release us, let us find our peace in You.”

This Sunday morning we will decamp to St Andrew’s church, next to Rochdale baths, as we join together for the first week of Advent. Christmas is coming! The service, to which everyone is invited, will begin at 10.30am.

At Trinity this Saturday morning, December 27, at 10am we will be holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the Macmillan nurses, a worthy cause if ever there was one!

Why not pop in to show you care?

Every Wednesday between 10am and 11am, with refreshments, there will be a time for worship and reflections as part of our preparation for Christmas, as we sense again the mystery and the wonder of God’s love as “Being’s source begins to be and God Himself is born!”

LITTLEBOROUGH UTD REFORM

LITTLEBOROUGH United Reform Church, in Victoria Sreet Littleborough, welcomes worshippers to join us in morning service, which will be taken by Brenda Jones from St Andrew’s in Rochdale.

There will be tea/ coffee/biscuits after the service in the Cooper suite and the morning service time is 10.30am-11.30am.

HEBRON PENTECOSTAL

EVER wonder what Advent is and why many Christians observe it?

Every year Advent invites us to prepare our hearts once more for the gift; the gift that seemingly is too good to be true but is, in fact, miraculously and joyously true!

And, each year, we have the opportunity to say yes to that invitation, to prepare our hearts for the miracle of Immanuel, “God with us.”

The word advent comes from the Latin word adventus and simply means “coming” or “arrival.”

Advent begins each year on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, which is the Sunday closest to November 30.

It is a season in which Christians around the world celebrate the First Advent, Jesus’ birth and also anticipate the Second Advent, Christ’s return.

Although the themes of Advent sometimes vary, those most commonly observed during the four weeks of Advent are hope, peace, joy and love. What’s on this week: Sunday, 11am, is the Main Service at Hebron, with Sunday school during the service and café open after the morning service. 1pm is the Nepalese service.

Monday, 9.30am, is the ‘Peek a Book’ Parents, Carers, Baby & Toddlers Group.

Tuesday/wednesday are Home groups at various locations in Rochdale.

Thursday, 7am, is the early morning prayer meeting.

Friday, 5pm-6.30pm, is Power Pack Kids Club, 7pm is Youth Group and 8pm is the prayer meeting at Hebron.

For more information on our events or if you want to know more about Hebron, please visit our website at www.hebron pentecostal church.co.uk or email info@ hebronrochdale.co.uk

Love and serve God, Love and serve people, Share God with people.

THE BENEFICE OF LITTLEBOROUGH

ADVENT Church Services during this week:

Sunday, November, 28: 9am is Holy Communion at St. Barnabas’ Shore, 10.15am is Holy Communion at Holy Trinity and 11.30am is Holy Communion at St. James’, Calderbrook.

Refreshments are being served after the services.

You are warmly invited to come along and join us for the beginning of the season of Advent.

For more information about us or our service and events then please visit www.cofelittleborough.co.uk.

ST MARY’S, BALDERSTONE

THIS morning is our Women’s breakfast, 9am to 10.30am, in the parish room.

Catch up with old friends, make new ones and relax.

There is no charge for the breakfast but donations are accepted.

Please note this will be the last breakfast this year.

The next breakfast will be January 29, 2022.

Tomorrow our all-age altogether service starts at 10.30am.

As we head into Advent, we’re beginning a new sermon series on God’s promises.

We will also be lighting the first candle on our advent wreath. The candle of Hope. Hope dares to admit that not everything is as it should be, it is like a light shining in a dark place.

As we look at the light of the hope candle, we celebrate the hope we have in Jesus.

Tomorrow evening you are invited to join us for our weekly prayer gathering with Christ Church and St Saviour’s, 6.30pm-7.30pm.

This week the gathering will be at St Saviour’s Church, Bishopgate Street, Chadderton, OL9 9BF.

If you can’t come in person, you have the option of joining in via Zoom.

If you require the Zoom meeting details, please contact us via Facebook.

Smurfs (St Mary’s Under Fives) meet on Tuesday afternoon, 1.30pm-3pm, in the parish room for stay and play fun. New members are welcome.

There is a small charge of £1 for one adult with one child and an extra 30p each for extra children.

The Discipleship Explored Course continues Wednesday, 7.30pm-9pm, in the parish room.

There is also a Zoom group meeting between 7.30pm and 9pm on Thursday. It’s not too late to come along even if you’ve missed the previous sessions.

Although the course works through the book of Philippians, each week is a self-contained study.

You are most welcome whether you choose to join us in the building or online.

ST LUKE’S, DEEPLISH

ST Luke’s Church, Deeplish, will hold a service of Family Service on November 28, at 10am.

Monday, November 29, 11am, is Bible Study via Zoom.

Wednesday, December 1, 11am, is the Morning Praise service on Zoom and 2pm is Scrabble Club, open to anyone who wants to have a couple of hours of friendly social chat and a game of scrabble.

No need to book, just turn up.

Thursday, December 2, 10 am-11am, is Zumba Basic.

You need to book; please contact Sarah Shard on 01706 926 239/07976 498 629 or email sarah.shard@ link4life.org

We look forward to welcoming our regular members and anyone who would like to join our very friendly, caring congregation.

For further information please see our webpage on www.rochdaleonline. co.uk/sites/saint-lukechurch

ST ANDREW’S, DEARNLEY

WE have been partnered with St Thomas’s, Newhey and St James’s, Milnrow, in the Manchester Diocese’s new Mission initiative and our first link-up with those parishes and their vicar, the Rev Janet Pitman, involves the forthcoming Advent Course, which starts on Wednesday, December 1.

Each week in the run-up to Christmas the Advent Course will be held at St Andrew’s on Wednesdays at 2pm and at St Thomas’s, Newhey on Thursdays at 7pm.

The content will be the same each week at the two venues, the idea being that if the St Andrew’s meeting is not convenient on any particular week you can always go to the St Thomas’s course the following evening, or vice-versa.

In other words, each week you will have the choice of Wednesday or Thursday to attend that week’s Advent content, which will be led by four ‘teachers’; the Rev Rachel Battershell (vicar of St Andrew’s), the Rev Janet Pitman (vicar of St

Thomas’s and St James’s), the Rev Canon Roger Hill, a retired priest who is part of the St Andrew’s ministry team and Wendy Foote, a Lay Reader Emeritus at St Andrew’s.

Last night, Friday, we had Wardle Anderson Brass in church for our annual Big Band Night, which will kick-start for us the build-up to St Andrew’s Day on Tuesday, November 30.

Christians and Scots across the world will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day on Tuesday, an extremely special day in the history of Christianity in Dearnley and the sowing of the St Andrew’s seed and the first services in our beautiful church when it was consecrated and opened in 1895.

Generations of local people have been baptised, confirmed, married and buried there, leaving a legacy that hands down a huge responsibility on their descendants to keep and to maintain St Andrew’s as a beacon of faith and pastoral care in this community.

We must not, we will not let them down and just as Remembrance Day reminds us of the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many local lads so that future generations of Dearnley folk could enjoy better lives, so too does St Andrew’s Day remind us of what our forefathers and mothers did to help to make their local church the vibrant, active institution it is today.

Come Tuesday, a happy St Andrew’s Day to everyone!

Our next Family Service, ideal for those with young children and specifically designed for the little ones, is on the second Sunday in December at 4pm.

It will be all about the birth of the baby Jesus and the real meaning of Christmas.

Not one to be missed if you wish your children to know there’s more to Christmas than Santa, pressies and turkey dinners.

Bible Study continues on Mondays at 2pm and choir practice on Wednesdays at 7.15pm.

We are now taking donations for the

Foodbank, specifics required are cereals, long-life milk and jams and Christmas selection boxes for children who otherwise wouldn’t get them.

ST CHAD’S AND ST MARY IN THE BAUM

ST Chad’s, standing on Sparrow Hill, overlooking the town centre, has been Rochdale’s Parish Church for over 800 years.

On the other side of the town centre stands the sister church of St Mary in the Baum.

Today, Saturday, November 27, at St Chad’s at 7.30pm, Rochdale Music Society presents a piano recital by Luka Okros, with music by Scarlatti, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Liszt.

Admission is £15, £13 for over-65s, £5 for students and £1 for children.

Tomorrow, Sunday, November 28, is the first Sunday of Advent.

Holy Communion (BCP) is at St Mary’s at 9.15am and Choral Eucharist at St Chad’s at 11.15am.

The Celebrant at both services is the Rev Anne Gilbert, Vicar of Rochdale.

On Wednesday next, December 1, at St Mary’s at 12.30pm, the Toad Lane Lunchtime Concert features the international pianist Ugnius Pauliukonis. Admission is £6. On Saturday next, December 4, St Chad’s holds its Christmas Fayre from 11am to 2pm.

There will be raffle prizes, bottle tombola prizes, books, DVDS and CDS, bric-a-brac, handcrafted items and home-made cakes and preserves. Refreshments are available and admission is free.

Sunday next, December 5, is the 2nd Sunday of Advent.

Holy Communion (BCP) is at St Mary’s at 9.15am and Choral Eucharist at St Chad’s at 11.15am.

The Celebrant and Preacher at both services is the Vicar.

On Sunday, December 19, St Chad’s Candlelit Carol Service begins at 5pm.