Bacup
Published on May 15, 2019 at 10:27 am
Moorlands play area is undergoing a £130,000 transformation.
The play area in Stubbylee Park will include fantastic new equipment including a jungle climber, five-way swing, scooter roundabout, music cottage, wizard’s hideaway and a cradle seat swing.
Rossendale Borough Council worked with Bacup Pride to secure £30,000 from Lancashire Environment Fund and £80,000 from Viridor for the project.
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Published on April 15, 2019 at 11:14 am
Do you want to join in the country’s biggest-ever spring clean and help make Rossendale tidy?
Volunteers are being sought to blitz Bacup in a community clean-up as part of the Great British Spring Clean.
Taking place this Wednesday, April 17 from 10am-1pm the clean-up and planting day will see volunteers tackle the area from Alma Road to Industrial Street.
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Published on February 19, 2019 at 1:42 pm
A pensioner has been ordered to pay more than £300 after he was recorded disposing of his dog waste in the river six times.
Geoffrey Wright of Lee Road, Bacup, was caught throwing the waste between 12th and 14th October 2018. He has ordered to pay £200 legal costs to Rossendale Borough Council and £133.34 for investigations costs.
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Published on January 22, 2019 at 3:19 pm
Invites are open to all to take part in a walk around Bacup on Saturday, 26th January.
The walk will discover why settlers chose this corner of the valley and the social and economic evolution of Bacup to the present day. There will also be a chance to find out more about the Forest of Rossendale, the pack horse routes and much more.
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Published on January 16, 2019 at 10:57 am
Rossendale Council has issued the following update:
The travellers moved off site on Tuesday, January 15th due to impending legal action and a full clean-up operation has now been organised.
They have moved to private land elsewhere in the borough and we have been in touch with the landowners to make them aware and offer advice and assistance.
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Published on January 7, 2019 at 3:53 pm
After eight months of renovation a historic Bacup building has been given a new lease of life with the opening of Valley Denture Clinic.
Weir residents Kevin and Janet Abbott had been trading in Littleborough, but when they saw the improvements being made to the town centre as part of Bacup Townscape Heritage Initiative, they knew the town was on the up and decided to look for premises nearer to home.
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Published on December 24, 2018 at 10:45 am
The end of the year is approaching so I wanted to reflect on the last year and also look forward to 2019.
In many ways, it’s been a tough year for the Council but we have achieved a lot and I hope many people agree with me that the borough is in a better shape than it was at the start of the year.
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Published on November 30, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Would you like to have your say on the present and future of two of the borough’s town centres?
Two new surveys are asking for residents’ views.
The first is asking for feedback on Bacup town centre and THI works.
Complete the Bacup survey here
The second is focussed on Haslingden town centre and complements recent information sessions held at the town’s library
Complete the Haslingden survey here
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Published on November 30, 2018 at 11:32 am
The hunt is on for culprits as hundreds of rotting chicken legs were found dumped in Bacup.
The chicken legs were discovered dumped off The Sidings in Bacup. Staff cleaning up the waste had to be protected with specialist coveralls to prevent contamination from the rotting chicken.
The clean-up team estimated there were hundreds of chicken legs on the steep banking on Tuesday, November 20th.
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Published on October 26, 2018 at 3:37 pm
A stunning tapestry has created a celebration of the River Irwell and left a lasting legacy of Bacup’s heritage work.
Each of the four pieces weaves together the story of the River Irwell with the history of the Bacup area.
Community Artist Ruth Evans was commissioned to hold a series of workshops to empower local people to create art work which she then combined into the panels.
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