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Published on September 12, 2017 at 4:08 pm
Rossendale Council has won a Crown Court appeal following its decision to revoke the taxi licence of a driver who refused to take a passenger with a guide dog.
Taiwo Osazuwa, 50, of Teddington Road, New Moston, Manchester, was prosecuted in February for failing to allow a passenger to travel with their assistance animal in June last year, an offence under the Equality Act 2010.
Published on September 12, 2017 at 3:54 pm
Ongoing works by Electricity North West in the Weir area has meant that Council was unable to service green bins today at a number of properties. Arrangements have been made for the bins to be emptied tomorrow from 7am.
The streets that are affected are:
Any missed recycling collections from previous weeks will be dealt with as soon as possible once the roads works are removed.
Filed under: Refuse collections
Published on September 12, 2017 at 3:18 pm
Across the valley, volunteers from all sectors of the community give up their own time to help others either directly or indirectly.
On Saturday 21st October, from 11am to 3pm Civic Pride will be hosting a day of celebration at Kay Street Baptist Church and are inviting other local voluntary groups to join them to thank volunteers’ past and present and encourage others to join them.
Filed under: civic | civic pride | clean and green
Published on September 8, 2017 at 2:48 pm
Rossendale Borough Council has announced a crackdown on landlords who fail to maintain their rental properties to a decent standard.
It follows the prosecution of a landlord who was then ordered to pay over £4,000 for failing to provide habitable living conditions for his tenants.
Bernard McKay, 65, of Ashworth Road, Rochdale, was convicted in his absence of failing to comply with improvement notices served by the Council.
Filed under: Barbara Ashworth | landlords
Published on September 8, 2017 at 11:07 am
Rossendale Borough Council has received a planning application from the East Lancashire Railway for the redevelopment of Rawtenstall Station.
East Lancashire Railway says the £600,000 proposed development will see Rawtenstall Station redeveloped to ‘provide enhanced facilities for not only visitors to the East Lancashire Railway but the local community too’.
Planning permission is being sought for the following:
Filed under: East Lancashire Railway
Published on September 5, 2017 at 3:43 pm
The Environment Agency has launched a Duty of Care campaign to help combat waste crime and to encourage people to take responsibility over what happens to their waste.
It follows an increase across Lancashire in the number of incidents of fly tipping on public and private land.
The campaign has included a crackdown on the illegal movement of waste in Lancashire with rogue traders targeted in three county wide multi-Agency roadside stop checks.
Filed under: Councillor Jackie Oakes | Environment Agency | Fly tipping
Published on September 5, 2017 at 1:46 pm
Rossendale Council has introduced strict new policies on taxi licensing.
Find out more in our new short film below:
Published on September 4, 2017 at 11:50 am
A family are getting ready to tackle the Tough Mudder challenge in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
Joanne Hargreaves, Customer Relationship Manager at Rossendale Borough Council, husband Barry and daughter Chloe are preparing to undertake the challenge at Cholmondley Castle
The 12 mile long challenge on September 9-10 will see them take on more than 20 obstacles and plenty of mud.
Published on August 31, 2017 at 3:13 pm
An exciting four-year £5.85m scheme is now well underway across Rossendale and East Lancashire to create and improve cycling routes.
The East Lancashire Strategic Cycleway project is designed to create 23km of new multi-user routes and improve 95km of existing routes between 2015 and 2019, including the Valley of Stone connecting Rawtenstall to Whitworth.
Published on August 29, 2017 at 1:38 pm
Get ready to take a trip back in time at the Rossendale 60s Festival.
The valley wide festival with unique events in Rawtenstall, Bacup, Haslingden and Whitworth is aimed at attracting and exposing visitors to the beauty, heritage and culture of Rossendale.
This year’s festival that promises to be even bigger and better than before runs from September 8-10.
Filed under: Rossendale 60s Festival