Protest to top minister over Rossendale windfarm access (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Protest to top minister over Rossendale windfarm access
7:30am Saturday 24th September 2011 in Whitworth
PROTESTS over the road to a controversial windfarm are set to go to Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman.
Town councillors are angry they were not consulted over plans to deregister land from Shawforth to the turbines at Crook Hill, Whitworth.
Residents along New Line, Bacup, and Market Street, Shawforth, already fear the impact on their property foundations of HGVs deliv-ering equipment for the steel turbines.
Coun Tom Aldred said: “The first we heard about this was when we saw a notice pinned on a tele-graph pole.
“Town councillors are now going to write to the Secretary of State and complain because we just haven’t been consulted.”
However, county council-lors on Lancashire’s comm-ons and town greens sub- committee have already approved the proposals.
Several footpaths and bridleways are in the path of the access road, which will be built by Coronation Pow-er, along with the disused Middle Hill and Hades quar-ries.
The company, which wants to build 12 turbines, is prep-ared to exchange the comm-on land for nearby plots.
Campaigners are also marshalling their opposit-ion ahead of a planning application for the access road, which will be cons-idered by Rossendale Coun-cil’s development control committee on October 4.
Edenfield residents rem-ember the disruption caus-ed during the construction phase of Scout Moor wind farm, which saw equipment transported from the M66 along narrow lanes, and fear a repeat.
Comments(3)
Steve4x4
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1:33pm Sat 24 Sep 11
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Who the chu-ff wrote this? don't know how much you are paid but it is too much....get back to school and learn your English, come on L.E.T, this is not good.
Tony1949
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2:20pm Sat 15 Oct 11
Incidentally the deadline for objections is Friday 21st October. Plans are on RBC website, reference 2011/0363. If anyone cares anymore.
Quite right Steve4x4. Looks like the hyphens that would have been in the original narrow column in the printed version. You can get "hard" or "soft" hyphenation in word-processing. They used the wrong ones so they stayed when it got transferred to the web page. Sloppy. So they need IT skills as well as English. Of course just reading the stuff they put out would be a nice start...
hamneggs says...
9:45am Sat 24 Sep 11
Unless some form of leviation is to be used here, New Line can only be reached by first using the full length of Bacup Road from Rawtenstall through to Waterfoot and then Newchurch Road through Stacksteads. This 4 mile stretch is probably the busiest route in the valley and even after removing parking from both sides is still quite narrow for much of its length. It also, along with New Line has terraces of houses right up to the edge of the road so major property damage cannot be ruled out.
Anyway looking at the way that these things tend to go when put in front of local authorities, i suggest that preperations to move cars are made and cameras charged up ready for the convoy to begin.
Anyway for those of you lucky to be away on holiday when the 9 turbines are safely in place at Crook Moor there will be a repeat performance to get excited about when Todmorden Moor and Reaps Moss equipment is delivered. This time that huge arterial road system called Market Street and Yorkshire Street in Bacup can join in the fun.
Then Edenfield can sit back and watch as phase 2 of Scout Moor starts rumbling through the village.
I would imagine that the next few years are going to be a good time to be a heavy construction machinery spotter but a lousy one to be a valley resident.