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it says in the observer that the war memorial is set to be improved....by chopping a tree down and having a ornate railing around the momument!:D

also the co-op car park, they say by 'sprucing it up' people will be less inclined to drop litter:rolleyes:...............yeh right:rolleyes:

oh and also pruning nearby trees outside st pauls school;)


have they missed summat here?
what about the bloody paladium?

shouldnt they be thinking about doing something with that sh!t hole??:rolleyes:

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How can they spruce up a car park? :confused:

There's the old fire station too that's an eyesore.

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The Paladium and fire station don't belong to the Council so how can they tidy them up. Do you think our council tax money should be used to renovate private property because the owners has let it decay?

I saw the plans for this work at the Area Council meeting and welcome most improvement work in our town.

Your post is typical of someone who is not interested in finding out what is really going on and just want to complain about everything the Council do.

Next you will be saying they should not put up 3 new cctv camera's in Ossy or that the Council should not have spent money renovating the pets corner in Rhyddings park.

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Neil, I was at that meeting too and I'm not sure if I can remember right but didn't they say that only two out of the three were definitely going to be done? Didn't we have a vote as to which two it was going to be?

I hope, if the report is correct, they've found the funding for all three as that would be great.

As for the Paladium and Fire Station - yes, they're horrid but they're privately owned, along with the space outside the Civic Theatre which has had planning permission granted for some houses but since knocking the old folks home down ages ago they haven't laid a single brick. Unfortunately, I doubt there's anything the council can do about that either!!!!

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3 CCTV camera's and renovating the pets corner are worthwhile ventures which benefit the community and serve a specific purpose, I don't see how anyone could think otherwise.

Does the Co-op car park belong to the council? Or are they talking about sprucing up the 'garden' area around the front of the co-op which is full of overgrown shrubs & weeds? Cutting them back or making the car park more attractive unfortunately won't stop littering. As for the the war memorial although it may improve the aesthetic of the monument an ornate railing won't stop school children from sitting on it eating their lunch and leaving behind their rubbish!

I'm not saying I'm an expert in council matters, but sometimes it seems like the council throw good money after bad. They do have good intentions of improving the town, but unfortunately they cannot change the poor behaviour of those who have no respect for the war memorial or their town's pride by dropping litter.

We know that the Palladium & Fire Station are privately owned but surely either the Buildings Regulator or Environmental Health can take action over derelict buildings?

Sprucing up the town 'paints over the cracks' but isn't a long-term solution.

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The Council do have the powers to make safe derelict buildings, but they seem reluctant to do so. It's just the same with derelict buildings at Church traffic lights.
May be they would take action if some one got hurt by objects falling from these buildings, but then it would be like closing the stable door after the horse had bolted.

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Called in at the new booze busters store this afternoon, was well impressed with it, it's clean, well stocked, and the staff were very pleasant.

On the other side of the road just before 'ossy mills' entrance there is a row of what was empty shops that are being refurbished so that to must be a plus for Ossy.
Anyone any idea what the building/shops are going to be used for?

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I went in the other day too, the staff were really welcoming - makes a pleasant change!

The shops that are being renovated are linked to Ossy Mills, I think it's going to be the Hothouse section and a coffee shop.

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i heard it was going to be the new chemist:confused: , and forgot what the other is going to be:rolleyes:

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There was a sign in the window a few weeks ago with Ossy Mills Logo saying coffee shop & (I think) Hothouse coming soon. Unless they've split it up - one part was the big fancy dress shop & the other a small TV repair shop from memory? I'll have a nosey when I pop down over the weekend.

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It the railings have spikes on, and presumably a locked gate, it will deter those idiots that desecrate the monument by sitting on it.

I've mentioned on here many times before, my grandfather was killed aged twenty two in Normandy, six months before my mum was born. To her this is the nearest thing she has to a grave for her father, and I applaud the council for this initiative.

Hats off also to Roy and Jean Lockwood, who through the British Legion, are collecting all the names of those from Oswaldtwistle who have died in the various wars, to be inscribed on our war memorial.

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Just out of interest, how long have they been doing it and when will they be ready to add the names to it?

They will not be any locked gates on it Gary.

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What are the railings going to look like? I presume they are going to be robust, and tall enough, to stop any passing hedgehogs jumping over them?

I don't know when the names are going on, sorry.

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Regarding the pruning of trees on the car park opposite Saint Paul's school - I hope the silver birch trees aren't going to be felled - we have few enough trees on Union Road as it is!

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that logo as always been on there, not anymore!, they have gutted the place now, im sure its gonna be a chemist, i live near there and recieved a letter stating what they where doing to it:p

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If it is gonna be a chemist that's handy for me - my doctor's on the next block up!

I'm not that far away either, why didn't I get a letter? (No sulky smilie I can use either!) I must be on the wrong side of Ossy Mills!

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Attachment 10627how about that one;) or this....Attachment 10628
:D

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I like this one! Ta!

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...up-ossy-39.gif

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I think silver birches have preservation orders on them and can only be felled if they are diseased or dangerous

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I bet that is not a problem when the people who want to fell them are the ones who decide if they can ;)

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I think they're only protected within conservation areas and I don't know if that is in one.

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Somehow Gayle I don't think some of the estates I work on in Blackburn are conservation areas :rolleyes: but they are still protected...or so I'm told by our tree lads :D

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Fair enough, I wasn't sure so happy to be corrected. :D

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It seems in some parts of the country even the dreaded Leylandii are protected.:eek:

BBC NEWS | England | Kent | Row over 'scourge' tree preservation

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Well, they definitely protected in conservation areas Gayle, and the ruling is to ask if trees are protected in areas outside this.

Surprising how large these areas are e.g. Rhyddings is one and covers a large area and .. lol .. so is The Straits (as you probably are aware) so don't go cutting any of yer trees down from the garden.


http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloads/Staits_CA.pdf

http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloads/rhyddings.pdf

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I prune mine when needed and I think it is a silver birch. I am supposed to give 6 weeks notice of intent to do it in case they want to protect it.

Looking at the maps Kate posted Gayle I was wrong, the park is in the area. It always makes me smile when you look at the route of the Rhyddings one. It misses out certain streets on purpose by the strange route it takes.

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being a prominant member of the Tree Police i need to ask you Sir DO YOU give 6 weeks notice? supposed is NOT good enough.:cool:

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Nope I just cut bits off them when needed. If I waited six weeks someone would loose an eye one of the trees drops so low in summer when full of leaves.

When it starts touching the car roof when I park on the road it is time to trim it :D

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Think this may be it Panther, although not too good at the numbers on Union Road, as far as I know nothing to do with Ossie Mills,but will ask tomorrow.. doesn't say what type of shops though:-

http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/cu...11_07_0120.pdf

Could be totally wrong here :o

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Just to confirm .. property does not belong to Ossie Mills, and is as the Planning Permission .. confirm also is going to be one shop .. as stated earlier... a chemist.

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i thought it was gonna be;), handy for me then.

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I've been told that it is Emric Eccles that is moving there, and that their chemist near Ryhddings Street will be closing.

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Just been looking at the planning permission, no mention of the shop being opened as a chemist, unless I missed it.
If it is to be a chemist shop will there not need to be another planning application for the change of shop type?

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While waiting and waiting and waiting for a bus opposite the Palladium this morning, I watched two chaps with clip boards and measuring gear sizing the building up, then another man came and let them inside - and a flock of pigeons flew out through a hole in the roof. Perhaps the Palladium is going to be knocked down to create yet more parking space for Ossy Mills!

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oh i hope not, im bloody sick of all them cars, it does my head in having to live near it all, they should convert it into some youth club or better still a shop so i dont have to walk far;)

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There is already a youth club on Harvey Street, as for converting it to a shop, what kind of shop, its a hell of a big building for a shop, and multi national companies are not interested in this type of building as they seem to want purpose made newbuild properties as we have already seen in Hyndburn

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i was thinking of knocking it down then build a shop;)