RESIDENTS and conservation campaigners have raised questions about why their local council has decided to prevent a free ecological study of nearby green lung land. Gib Hill, located between Nelson and Colne, was designated for housing by Pendle Borough Council in 2005 and has been targeted by developers in the years since, while local campaigners hope instead to ecologically protect and enhance the area and keep it for community use. To do so, the Lancashire Wildlife Trust offered to carry out a comprehensive wildlife survey of the area to assess its ecological value, however their suspicions were raised when Pendle Borough Council turned down this offer.
Pendle: Campaigners raise suspicions over council s refusal to survey Gib Hill land
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Liberata is asking for views on the design of housing at Further Clough Head, Nelson RESIDENTS opposed to a new housing estate on a town’s ‘beauty spot’ have raised concerns over former mine workings on the site. The Further Clough Head Action Group which opposes Pendle Council s scheme on green fields between Barkerhouse Road and Southfield Street in Nelson, say the work has causes unacceptable noise and mess. And they fear that coal mining in the area makes it unsuitable for he project by Together Housing and PEARL which would see 200 two, three and four bedroomed properties and has been awarded a £1.15million grant from Homes England.
The Conservative Party leaflet A CONSERVATIVE local election candidate has been ordered to correct a claim that he was a solicitor in a campaign leaflet. The flier from Bradley ward hopeful Mohammad Kaleem standing for Pendle Borough in the May 6 poll prompted a complaint to police from rival Mohammed Iqbal. Inspector Darren Irving investigated and wrote to the Pendle Council leader saying: I have confirmed that Mr Kaleem is not a solicitor but a consultant for a law firm. There has been a breach of the law. In order to rectify the situation the leaflets describing him as a solicitor have been removed from circulation and a statement is to be put out by him clarifying that he is not a solicitor.
A DISABLED man says he was verbally abused by workmen when he complained that building works near his home have invaded his privacy. Stephen Allen, 67 of Burrell Avenue in Colne, lives in a property owned by the Together Housing group and says that building at a nearby site on the former community centre on Glenroy Avenue have impacted his privacy and has affected his garden. He says that his fence was removed by builders and that he lost a quarter of his garden space, where a new metal fence has been put in up preparation for a car park being built, and been left with no privacy in his bathroom and kitchen, with works taking place just 12-13 inches from his garden window.
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