Campaign groups meet Ribble Valley MP for action talks

8:00pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 in News

RIBBLE Valley action groups have met with MP Nigel Evans to discuss development plans for the area.

With the borough’s core strategy almost ready for submission, Mr Evans said that some applications needed ‘proper scrutiny’ and that the council must have the power to back residents without the financial threat of developers winning on appeal.

He said: “I am fully committed to supporting local councillors and residents who are rightly concerned about opportunistic and over powerful developers damaging the rural nature of the Ribble Valley and forever changing the character and traditions of our area.

“I have been involved in an ongoing dialogue with the Department for Communities and Local Government and recently wrote to Eric Pickles to highlight my dismay and bewilderment that an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) had not been granted for the planning proposal at Barrow.

“It is staggering that such a large proposal that will be double the size of the existing village could not be deemed an appropriate site for an EIA.

“It is precisely these types of decisions that make people feel ignored and that their opinion carries far less weight than the developers’.”

Comments (8)

9:34pm Wed 17 Oct 12

2 for 5p says...

HA ha HA
Get it up you
NIMBYs
HA ha HA Get it up you NIMBYs 2 for 5p

8:00am Thu 18 Oct 12

shytalk says...

Thing is though it's Nigel Evans party that is promoting all this development.
Thing is though it's Nigel Evans party that is promoting all this development. shytalk

9:40am Thu 18 Oct 12

Noiticer says...

Make Nigel work for his money for a change
Make Nigel work for his money for a change Noiticer

9:54am Thu 18 Oct 12

accy lad and proud says...

Sore losers !! Bulldozers in on Monday Yip-pee ! Loads of work!!!!!!
Sore losers !! Bulldozers in on Monday Yip-pee ! Loads of work!!!!!! accy lad and proud

4:32pm Thu 18 Oct 12

shytalk says...

accy lad and proud wrote:
Sore losers !! Bulldozers in on Monday Yip-pee ! Loads of work!!!!!!
For foreign agency workers...
[quote][p][bold]accy lad and proud[/bold] wrote: Sore losers !! Bulldozers in on Monday Yip-pee ! Loads of work!!!!!![/p][/quote]For foreign agency workers... shytalk

9:03am Fri 19 Oct 12

Plasticbertrand says...

It's time that Nigel Evans grew a pair downstairs and stood up for the constituents he is supposed to support. I bet he hasn't got the courage to demand a face to face meeting, so he writes to him instead. I can see a UKIP candidate taking his seat at the next election, so perhaps he was a little hasty in selling his family business down in Swansea.

For all those who keep posting about NIMBYism, this has nothing to do with it. There isn't a single spare place in a Ribble Valley school and there are no plans to build any new ones either. So if the target of 2000 homes brings in more than 3000 new children, where are they going to go ? The developers walk away with a packet, yet every other child already in the Ribble Valley education system suffers because of it. For the council tax payers in Mellor, Wilpshire and possibly Langho ,you can look forward to your kids going to the new super school in Shadsworth.
It's time that Nigel Evans grew a pair downstairs and stood up for the constituents he is supposed to support. I bet he hasn't got the courage to demand a face to face meeting, so he writes to him instead. I can see a UKIP candidate taking his seat at the next election, so perhaps he was a little hasty in selling his family business down in Swansea. For all those who keep posting about NIMBYism, this has nothing to do with it. There isn't a single spare place in a Ribble Valley school and there are no plans to build any new ones either. So if the target of 2000 homes brings in more than 3000 new children, where are they going to go ? The developers walk away with a packet, yet every other child already in the Ribble Valley education system suffers because of it. For the council tax payers in Mellor, Wilpshire and possibly Langho ,you can look forward to your kids going to the new super school in Shadsworth. Plasticbertrand

9:28pm Wed 24 Oct 12

Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...

Accy Lad why don't you tell everyone the story of your ex wife :) How half of Accrington & Clitheroe have been through her. LOL and how you still begged her to stay. Best of all tell us what she told you LOL
Accy Lad why don't you tell everyone the story of your ex wife :) How half of Accrington & Clitheroe have been through her. LOL and how you still begged her to stay. Best of all tell us what she told you LOL Michael@ClitheroeSince58

11:50pm Thu 25 Oct 12

accy lad and proud says...

Michael@ClitheroeSin
ce58 wrote:
Accy Lad why don't you tell everyone the story of your ex wife :) How half of Accrington & Clitheroe have been through her. LOL and how you still begged her to stay. Best of all tell us what she told you LOL
Nonsense !!!!!
[quote][p][bold]Michael@ClitheroeSin ce58[/bold] wrote: Accy Lad why don't you tell everyone the story of your ex wife :) How half of Accrington & Clitheroe have been through her. LOL and how you still begged her to stay. Best of all tell us what she told you LOL[/p][/quote]Nonsense !!!!! accy lad and proud

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