Monthly Archives: July 2017
Published on July 27, 2017 at 5:49 pm
Members of the Rossendale Together Barnfield (RTB) Partnership have paid the Spinning Point site a visit to see progress that has been made.
More details can be found here.
After visiting the site, Councillor Andy MacNae, Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, Leisure and Tourism, said:
“We have worked really hard to bring in investment to our town centres to help them flourish.
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Published on July 26, 2017 at 9:32 am
A new campaign aims to highlight the common causes of collisions involving child pedestrians in Lancashire in a bid to cut the number of deaths and injuries on roads.
‘Look Out Lancs’ is being run by the Lancashire Road Safety Partnership and encourages everyone on the roads to look out for each other.
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Published on July 25, 2017 at 4:49 pm
Rossendale Council has published its draft local plan which guides how the borough will achieve its targets for housing, employment sites and facilities over the next few years.
Residents and businesses are invited to have their say on the plan which will guide development for the next 15 years.
As well as earmarking sites for development, the plan will also propose sites for environmental protection.
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Published on July 25, 2017 at 4:29 pm
Spinning Point, the multimillion pound redevelopment of Rawtenstall town centre has won a prestigious award.
You can read all about the award here.
Welcoming the news, Councillor Andy MacNae, Portfolio Holder for Regeneration, Leisure and Tourism, said:
“This is brilliant news and shows the progress being made to redevelop the area.
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Published on July 25, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Local residents will soon be able to access Rossendale Council’s new and improved website.
The new site, which will go live on Wednesday August 9, features a re-jigged layout – with an A-Z of services – that makes it quicker and easier for residents to access the information they need.
In the latest in a weekly series of blogs leading up to the launch Cllr Steve Hughes, Executive Member Champion for IT, discusses the new site’s additional and improved online forms.
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Published on July 24, 2017 at 10:52 am
Rossendale Council’s Planning Team has won a top regional award for its practice.
The team won the Best Practice Award at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) North West Regional Awards for Planning Excellence 2017 for its work on the new McDonalds at Rawtenstall.
A new award category was created for this scheme and the judges confirmed that the scheme was given special status because it demonstrated how a small local planning authority can achieve an excellent outcome in dealing with an application from a world famous company.
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Published on July 20, 2017 at 2:17 pm
Three friends have found the perfect recipe to raise money for charity, by staging a 24 hour bake-a-thon.
Abigail Wrench, Becca Astin and Kirsty Lauder are holding the marathon cake making session at Abigail’s Burnley home in aid of Pendleside, Hospice.
The group plan to stream the 24 hour bake-a-thon live on Youtube and are also inviting people to drop by for a cuppa and a cake in aid of the charity.
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Published on July 19, 2017 at 11:05 am
Adrian Smith, a father-of-three from Bacup, ran a marathon in the heat of the Middle East in May to support families affected by war and persecution in the Middle East.
Adrian, 56, the principal planning officer for Rossendale Borough Council had previously visited Iraq and saw for himself the suffering faced by families following the invasion of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), which forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.
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Published on July 18, 2017 at 9:41 am
Local residents will soon be able to access Rossendale Council’s new and improved website.
The new site, which will go live on Wednesday August 9, features a re-jigged layout – with an A-Z of services – that makes it quicker and easier for residents to access the information they need.
In the first of a weekly series of blogs leading up to the launch Cllr Steve Hughes, Executive Member Champion for IT, discusses the new site’s simplicity and customer friendly content.
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Published on July 17, 2017 at 10:55 am
Community Assets Standing Tall (CAST) has been awarded £49,400 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to undertake a two year listing project of Rossendale Heritage assets.
You can get more details here: http://www.communityasset.org/listing-project-press-release/
Councillor Annie McMahon, Design and Heritage Champion, said:
I am delighted to hear this news. CAST are a superb organisation and this is a very exciting piece of work.
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