YOUR VIEWS
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WHAT you’ve been saying on our Facebook page:
●CONTROVERSIAL plans for 131 houses in Helmshore set for D-Day as Taylor Wimpey amend plans (see page 20):
Laura Walden:
Horrendous, let’s contribute to the sports centre and ignore the effects on wildlife, flooding and traffic. There are deer and bats in that land I thought bats were a protected species. Also is this in addition to the properties going on Birtwistle mill land? Kerry Crompton-Harris: Exactly the same concerns at Loveclough, still got passed and building commenced...
David Ormerod:
Pointless asking for people’s opinions on this matter as the planners, local politicians and builders don’t give a s###. Protected wildlife, flood risk, traffic congestion and total lack of infrastructure.
Lynne Swindells:
Absolutely ridiculous, building where it floods
Paul Jackson: Stop paying council tax maybe then the council will wake up.
Walker Walker: Planning is ace. They can build here what ever they like but I wasn’t allowed a double extension at the back of my house because “it was complicated”
Andrew A Quinton: Worst council in the country. Where does all the council tax go? Rossendale is getting worse and worse - no improvements at all.
Betty Warren: Do we have the facilities for more houses and US? The answer is NO!
●AIR pollution hot spots named in new report (November 11):
David Clegg: The more houses you build the more traffic you create.
Carl Anderton: And more traffic lights put up the more congestion caused
Jo Jo Clarke: How will slowing Grane Road down change anything? It won’t force people to take a different road. It will create more traffic jams surely.
Ross Endale: Stinky wagons don’t help either.
Lorraine Ashworth: Pray tell me where on Grane Road this excess pollution is found. The road in the 50mph zone has about five houses on it. Going on the M65 there are loads of houses by the side of the road, and much more traffic.
●‘UPCYCLED’ tube trains could get Valley on line (November 12):
Les Nuttall: Rossendale to Burnley, Blackburn and Preston would be better. I would like to go from Ramsbottom north to Blackpool like we used to be able to do
Keith Knowles: How would all the commuters get to Rawtenstall station?
Si Badger: Retired tube trains. So still a heritage railway then
Jack Eastwood: Great news
Steve Smith: It’s good for Rawtenstall but not really much use for rest of Rossendale
David Evans: What new trains? ‘Strategic business plans’ aren’t trains!
Gabb Strzelecka: Finally gonna get a train yasss
Robert Marsden: The rail lines should be reopened to Bacup
David Blackledge: Is this what they mean by “Levelling up”?
London can send their cr*p up here for us to use even though London has finished using these railcars and would normally would be sent to the scrapyard!
Stu Gill: Boris pledged on his election campaign the first two rail lines to be reconnected to the rail network if he got into power were to be in Fleetwood and Blyth...all pie in the sky talk
Peter Winstanley: I wonder what the cost of completely stabilising the slip at Summerseat will be?
Pie in the sky, dream on.
Anthony Boocock: They are ex Underground trains as in the body but they are really new trains with kit on them, that state of the art.
Colin Bracewell: I’m surprised anyone falls for this nonsense - it’s multi millions to get it double tracked and up to modern rail standards