The Friends of Lever Park

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Napoleon Bonaparte—Farewell to the old guard—1814 Tony Blair—To the Irish Parliament—1991 Winston Churchill—Blood, Sweat and Tears—1940 Bill Clinton—I haved sinned—1998 St Francis of Assisi—Sermon to the birds—1220 Now lets see how many of you can guess who made this speech in 2008. “We are aware that some residents are frustrated with the Go-Ape project and  [...]

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Go Ape have opened a forum on their website to discuss their proposal for the Itchen Valley. This interesting question and answer appeared a few days ago: Q: The Friends of Lever park claim that you applied to cut down 3 trees, but you actually felled 21 with no felling license, before you were stopped [...]

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There will be a meeting for “friends of Lever Park” and their supporters on Thursday the 10th December 2009, it will be held at HORWICH CONSERVATIVE CLUB, Church Street Horwich, with an 8-00pm start. Agenda: (i) Report on the Ombudsman’s final decision. (ii) Report on complaint made to the Information Commissioners Office. (iii) Outlining our intentions [...]

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It doesn’t pay to take your eye off the ball. Remember Go-Ape notifying us that they would be submitting a planning application week commencing the 16th November. It’s not that date we need to keep our eye on, it’s the validation date. It’s only after this date that the public etc need to be notified. [...]

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Don’t forget that Go-Ape may be putting in a planning application week commencing 16th Nov/09. Odds for day of notification:     Monday 7/1,    Tuesday 6/1,   Wednesday 5/1,   Thursday evens  and   Friday  1/5 on. Friday will be favorite then the offices won’t be open until Monday to allow viewing,(2 days lost). Don’t forget, everybody isn’t on the TINTERNET. [...]

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If you want to know how NOT to lay tarmac, look no further than the MESS the highways department have made to the footpaths along Westoughton Road in Adlington. It is such a cheap and shoddy job, it’s coming up within 24 hours of being laid. One section of footpath (that was laid last week) [...]

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   We have been notified by go-ape that they intend to submit a planning application for another zip wire which will run from tree 411 (stockade at primary school end) taking a E.S.East route towards the bridle path. They say that the new zip wire will be approx 50 metres in length. They intend to submit [...]

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Looks like we’ve been here before, GoApe are at it again, this time down in Eastleigh in Hampshire. Eastleigh BC are threatening local protestors with fines and possible jail for displaying protest signs in their gardens. GoApe state their only involvement is that their name is on the signs, wonder why. Lets hope we can [...]

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A recent email to mail@leverpark.co.uk: I have recently completed my 22yrs service in the Armed Forces, and have not been home for the past 3yrs, I am absolutely sick to the stomach at what I found on one of my runs round the first creek, this Go Ape is a hideous blemish on my local landscape [...]

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