Councillor Adrian Lythgoe
Published on December 16, 2019 at 10:09 am
Rossendale Council have identified two sites to locate the parks and cemeteries team.
The team needed to find a new depot to operate from as they are due to be displaced by works to improve the Whitaker.
The Council has identified a current depot at Tup Bridge and to establish a small scale operating centre at Marl Pits.
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Published on September 9, 2019 at 2:22 pm
Rossendale Council has today launched a new scheme to help residents who want to do their bit for the community.
Leader of the Council Alyson Barnes announced Council support for individuals who want to keep their clean and tidy by offering litter picking equipment for them to use.
The borough is blessed with a number of superb Pride groups, including Bacup Pride who are pictured, which have improved the borough enormously.
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Published on August 12, 2019 at 9:50 am
A man has been fined thousands of pounds for felling a tree under a preservation order.
Mr John Harvey, of Haslingden Road, Rawtenstall, was fined £2500 and ordered to pay £2500 costs for the wilful destruction of a protected tree. The 66-year-old also has to pay a statutory charge of £150 following being found guilty at Burnley Magistrates.
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Published on June 5, 2019 at 12:45 pm
A builder who repeatedly ignored Rossendale Council’s calls to restore land behind a former rural pub has been heavily fined.
The Council welcomed Preston Crown Court’s £81,699 fine for Stanley Ainsworth and Ribble Valley Luxury Homes Limited for ignoring a planning enforcement notice.
Ainsworth secured planning permission to convert the former Glory pub in Loveclough but he and his company breached Council planning regulations when he extended the rear boundary into the open countryside without the benefit of planning permission.
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Published on September 13, 2018 at 10:43 am
The council has published a report on excess winter deaths in the borough.
It has found that the rate of excess winter deaths is not significantly higher than that across England but recommends closer partnership working to tackle the issue.
A group of five Rossendale councillors was convened earlier this year to look into the issue.
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