Our unelected Lords and Masters at East Lancashire Partnerships together with Lancashire County Council have decided that we are all dropping off the perch far too early and this is having a disastrous effect on tax revenues. Perplexed as to the solution to this problem they decided to spend several million pounds in consultancy fees and feasability studies and outreach surveys and specially important weekend conferences in posh foreign hotels and came to the conclusion that the best way to keep us working, and thus earning and paying tax, was to get us to keep fitter.
They have decided that we all need to spend less time sitting down recovering from the exertions of the day and get on our bikes and spend more of our "free" time cycling ourselves around our green and pleasant land. To this end they have decreed that a county wide green cycle lane should be built so that we can cycle in a largely risk free monitored environment. How Nice!
The latest phase of this project is undergoing construction behind Scaitcliffe Palace.
The lodge has been drained and a roadway is being constructed between the old Manchester railway bridge pillars, it joins the remains of the railway track which runs from Baxenden and comes out in front of Scaitcliffe Palace.
This Lodge will also be the scene of a major redevelopment effort, as detailed in the current issue of the Observer.