The Friends of Lever Park

We expect United Utilities to formally apply to Chorley Council for planning permission for their new car park and traffic management at some time during December or early January. We must make sure that the application for objections doesn’t get lost in the Christmas holiday rush.
So I invited United Utilities to publish their proposals on [...]

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If I was to go into Astley Park (Chorley) this weekend with a chain saw and trim one of their trees to the ground, how long would it be before the law was taking me before the courts.
So come on Chorley tell us how long it is going to be before you take go-ape to court [...]

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I cast my mind back to what is probably one of the most important events in this whole charade, namely the Rivington Parish Council meeting at which GoApe gave there presentation, ably assisted and supported by United Utilities, the day before the deadline for objections to the planning application. Take note GoApe and UU, the [...]

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Here is the graph showing the weekly number of visitors to the site. You can see that over the past couple of weeks we’ve had over three thousand visits per week. Our busiest day on the website was 17th November when we had 1620 visits! In total, since the website went online at the beginning of September, we [...]

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Several people have asked for a short summary of our case against Chorley Council. Here it is:
1) Chorley’s Use of Delegated Powers.
Delegated powers allow planning decisions to be made by a small group of three council officers, rather than a full planning committee which would include elected members. They are designed to be used for [...]

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Having just read the article in this weeks Chorley Guardian, I can’t help thinking that CBC, GoApe and United Utilities have decided upon a media strategy early doors and shipped it out en masse to all concerned, to insert into any article that may question there actions. Well frankly their  response is becoming a little [...]

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The next meeting of the Friends of Lever Park will be on Tuesday 2nd December 2008 at Horwich Liberal Reform club on Winter Hey Lane. 8.00pm start. Note that this is a new venue (as our numbers have grown, Horwich Conservative Club was unable to offer us a larger room). Here a link to a [...]

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Read their edition 19/11/08, and digest the comments made by Go-ape, United Utilities and Chorley Council.
Go-ape have moved from using the word CONSULTED to using the phrase “Was in touch with”.
United Utilities are refering to Great House Barn and its commercial ventures, somebody should tell them that the Barns where set up as tea rooms [...]

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Thank you to everyone who turned up for the public demonstration, the turn-out was excellent.
It makes a bigger mockery of Chorley Council’s interpretation of ( No opposition ).

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