Campaign groups meet Ribble Valley MP for action talks (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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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)
shytalk
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8:00am Thu 18 Oct 12
Noiticer
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9:40am Thu 18 Oct 12
accy lad and proud
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9:54am Thu 18 Oct 12
shytalk
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4:32pm Thu 18 Oct 12
accy lad and proud wrote:For foreign agency workers...
Sore losers !! Bulldozers in on Monday Yip-pee ! Loads of work!!!!!!
Plasticbertrand
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9:03am Fri 19 Oct 12
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.
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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9:28pm Wed 24 Oct 12
accy lad and proud
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11:50pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Michael@ClitheroeSinNonsense !!!!!
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
2 for 5p says...
9:34pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Get it up you
NIMBYs