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I noticed this morning that yet again the heyes playing fields were damaged by what appears to have been a wagon driven on it last night.What i fail to understand is why LCC who own the land,hynburn council and St Marys who want to refurbish the area spend some of the monies they say they have to make the area more secure,ie an earthern bank,even if it is only on a temp basis,but then again the famous health and safety laws might mean that the brussel sprout brained horse riders that gallop across it on a very regular basis or the local numbties in the obligatory corsas who use it as a main road might injure themselves trying to get on.:confused:

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LCC Consultation: Full: Construction of a Heys Playing Field Heron Way
05/10/2009
single storey football pavilion including new Oswaldtwistle Accrington car park, footpath, 2.4m high 2D security fencing, conversion of existing all weather pitch to natural grass football pitch and
redraining works to existing pitches
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/cu...20TO091009.pdf

The plans were approved, so hopefully when the work's completed, it won't be happening in the future.

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We locals have been told that public access to the playing field will cease on 23rd due to commencement of drainage works and construction plant on the field.

So if you 'excercise' your dog there you will have to find somewhere else for it to crap
.....and not on our lawns please (I am ready with a camera to record offenders)

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Temporary fencing was going up yesterday.

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The permenant fencing looks about 50% done.
Even though it is 8' high it isn't obtrusive because you can see through it easily.

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Today the fencing firm has been using a sthil saw continuously for the last two hours at the main construction area next to my flat.

....keeping windows closed and hoping for heavy rain

PS Wow - the power of thought! - rain stopped play as I typed

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Rain stopped - 'play resumed' - it is difficult to maintain brain power with a two hour headache.

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Obviously your spells have lost there potency, time for a rethink and a call to Merlin me thinks Margaret:D:D

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The novelty of having something to watch from my ivory tower has worn off good style.

The noise pollution from living next to this building site is driving me scatty (and for those of you who thought I was that already, for me to acknowledge that, shows you how bad it is).

Today, the combination of the prolonged use of a cement mixer and stiyl saws, interspersed with the bleeps of reversing heavy machinery, and the rumble of delivery vehicles is unbearable.

When the caterpillar tracked vehicles pass my front door my desk vibrates.
This is a rant from a sleep deprived person. Any elderly person will tell you that a daytime nap is essential to an 'older persons' wellbeing - I am being deprived of mine.

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They're doing the fields up now.

BUT WHEN WILL THEY FINISH???

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When they've finished

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I can't decide which of you two is worse

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Think about it its probably you Neil:hehetable:D

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You are probably right, I have to read all your drivel :eek::p

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All work should be finished before the end of the year. It may not get played on until 2012 – 2013 season as the ground has to bed in.

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Really noisy here today.
My desk has been shaking several times.
That caterpillar track digger makes the earth move for me:rolleyes:

What I dont understand is why they are re-digging a trench that they dug and filled in several weeks ago.
I can see that they are adding another pipe to the one they originally laid.
Why didn't they lay both then:confused:

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Heard on the grapevine that a lot of the contractors have had the tyres on their vehicles slashed.

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That was a few weeks ago. The gang of lads also tried to start the construction equipment. After that they moved their vehicles off the site nightly for a while.

There have been incidents since - kids fooling about on the piles of building materials, thefts of wood - I've lost count of the number of times the police have been up here.

It is amazing to see 14yr olds scale the high fencing in one leap - one even carried his bike over with him.

It might well be providing a much needed amenity for the community but it is very disruptive for nearby residents while it is being built.

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The roof is under construction now.
This pavilion is big! - three entrances.

I suppose the criminal invasion will really get underway when the plumbing gear arrives.
We have heard that 24hr surveillance will be used - it's needed.

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It looks massive.

It must be a right pain, especially in summer, when you want your windows open.

:(

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It's what you get when you have a local Councillors who look after the interests of their constituants ;) :D :D

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I heard the metal fencing rattle about 30 mins ago and went to the window just in time to see four lads leaving the site by using the gate (they must have broken the lock on it).
They ran off down the allotment track before I got a good look at them.

I stayed looking but they didn't come back - I have a police incident number to call and quote if they do. They are not far away - I can hear their boisterous shouts.

Looks like its gonna be a busy night.
I must try to summon up a thunderstorm ;)
:conny:

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Could have been Gas and Electricity, they usually do that on the roads:rolleyes:

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Never mind the axe Margaret, Bow and Arrow would be better:D

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The smiley was denoting the native american practice of rainmaking.
Wet today isn't it? ;) - small price to pay for peace, and the farmers like it.:D

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Weren't or popular with my other have when she went shopping:D

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At the start of this project, the firm building the pavilion, dug out an area the size of 4 tennis courts down to a depth graduating between 2' and 5'.
There was a heck of a lot of topsoil heaped up and shipped out by convoys of lorries.

Now, the firm constructing the football pitches, are shipping soil IN by convoys of lorries. (starting at 7.30am - groan)
Totally illogical!

Another sign of poor organisation was the brick built meter shed with its concrete slab roof and white painted door.
It took several days to construct - yesterday demolished.

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Why if it was a temp building that needed to be secure?

As for the soil maybe they need a better quality of soil for the pitches that allows fast water drainage. What they dug out may have been too heavy and full of clay.

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OK I can accept the soil quality issue - but I don't think that building was 'temporary' - why paint the door if it was to be scrapped before it would have time to rot.

Earlier in this thread there was a link to planning consent which doesn't work now.
I recall it stipulated restriction of times of day when work and deliveries could happen.

I was wakened before 7.30am with the tipper lorries and the loud clanging noise their tail gates make as they slam open and shut - (and the bleeping reversing noises) - it wasn't until 7.30 that I got up after deciding that going back to sleep wasn't an option.
There are styl saws operating again today - groan:(

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Just think how good it will be when it stops;)

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It's here, Margaret. Probably the link went when they started putting plans on their site. Page 5 re. times. Sometimes takes time to load, so be patient.

http://planning.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/WA...df&pageCount=1

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Thanks Kate - I have a slow connection today - I will look when it downloads eventually.

As an amusing anecdote to this saga -
There is a woman who daily walks a pack of bull terriers up here.
She is known locally as 'pit bull Ann'.
For the past 2 weeks, gravel, and now soil, has been shifted from the pavilion site, where it has been unloaded, up to the top of the field, via the narrow allotment tracks.

Recently one of the two large dumper trucks met this 'lady' with dogs on a return trip down the track.
She refused to move aside and the truck had to reverse back onto the field.

Result - two signs have been erected on the verge near the site entrance -
"BEWARE OF PEDESTRIANS" :D

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The sign should say "Beware, some pedestrians are stupid enough to stand in front of dumper trucks"

If I had been the dumper driver I would have got out and walked off for a brew :D

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Didn't know you had dogs Margaret:thankya:

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The road to the allotment car park has been blocked without notice.:mad:
If you planned to visit your allotment today - you can't. The car park is chock-a-block with contractors vehicles in any case. One of them needed to leave and used the footpath (see thumbnail 2).
A jackhammer is digging a trench across the road.

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They have left space for one car to pass now, via metal sheets across the trench
which make three loud clangs every time one does

..whoops I said metal - hope pixies don't see this;)

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Well if they do you won't be getting 3 loud clangs, there'll be just one loud bang. :)

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If these loud bangs continue, Margaret, you might get an earthquake. Still, you should get some cheap gas out of it.

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The word 'heys' is of ancient origin and simply means 'fields', usually of the type used for pasture. Thus it seems to me that the Heys pub was so named simply because it was in an area long called th'heys because, when other land had gone for industrial or housing use,it was kept as green belt.

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I can remember when there were no houses what-so-ever on the land behind the heys Bob, development only started in around 1973 prior to that the land was mostly allotments

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I thought It used to be a land fill site many years ago.:confused:

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Never - I recall walking the track through the allotments to get to Threebrooks mill on RoeGreave Rd.(in late 40s)

There was a tip in Ossy - at Whiteash.

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I can remember walking along a path with allotments on both sides Beni, down as fare as the bridge leading to the Farm, Town Bent, there was a red brick pump house there too, can't remember anything about a landfill except the private one at the end of Roe Greave Road/Rhoden Road

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You may recall I mentioned that they had twice dug a trench along the grass verge.

They dug it again for the THIRD time several days ago.

Today they are filling it again.

I wouldn't have bothered mentioning it except that it is Sunday, the only day we should expect some peace up here in accordance with the planning permission.

I have just observed the need to move my car because the track came off their vehicle directly opposite my car and they were blocking the road whilst trying to get the track back on.

This is (supposed to be) the one day of the week when I can park at my door without heavy equipment and deliveries passing.

OK - rant over - planning permission breached which isn't OK

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The car park gate posts were installed before the car park surface was prepared and tarmaced -that's logical.

Tarmac was applied friday and this morning, so the fencing firm have arrived to fit the gates.

I don't (Victor Meldrew) believe it!!!!!!:D

The gates don't fit the space between the posts, so the fencing men have dug up the newly laid tarmac, and the gravel beneath it, to move a post to match the width of the gate.

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A bit like the plank Margaret:D

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Things seemed to have gone quieter for the past two weeks since the heavy machinery left the site.
Apart from the deisel generator which runs all night, peace seemed to have returned.
The heavy work isn't finished because the drainage of the field areas is way behind but cannot get done until next year.

Now the wildlife has returned on a regular basis.
It is quite extraordinary how much noise a flock of penguins makes when they gather for a long rest.

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Um look like emperor penguins to me Margaret;)

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Its good to see it being used still.

Had a chat with a moaning minnie today who commented about how she could no longer walk her dog on the fields since the fence went up. I smiled and suggested that was part of the idea and said who wants to play football on a field full of dog mess?

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Yeh should have smiled n said- Show me the bag yeh put yer dog crap in n i will agree wi yeh.;)

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I had just upset her already by asking her not to exercise her dogs in the kids play areas.

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They don't use the field - they just gather at the gate - it is likely the 'terminus' for country running.

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Yer just too diplomatic. ignorance works better i find.:D

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She said well there is no sign to which I answered anyone with half a brain would not exercise dogs in a kids play area. She then made the mistake of asking me if I was saying she only had half a brain, can you guess my answer? :D

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Yes, there'd have been much more noise, and disruption, if the land had been sold off as a building plot. Which was a very real threat, not too long ago.

Despite who took all the glory, it was former L.C.C. Councillor, Dorothy Westwell, who was the main person who secured funding for these improvements, and therefore the future for this facility.

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I miss the Punch and Judy show we used to have at Area Council meetings between Peter Britcliffe and Dorothy Westell.


How rude of you to spell her name wrong G? ;):p

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Whoops.

Westell.

How soon we forget.

:rolleyes::D

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I may have have forgotten she has a 'w'.

Some forgot it was her that did all the donkey work, until the time came for photographs in the press.

Actually, I have it from a very good source, that one well known Ossy councillor had to actually ask someone where the Heys playing fields were.

You can take the boy out of Accrington...

:rolleyes::D

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Dorothy Westell has always been a top lady, knew her n cliff when late wife worked fer her many years ago.

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What did she used to do workwise?

I know she was involved with the LCC side of things but not sure how involved with the other sponsors. I guessed that was down to the football club.

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She used to have the "Arcade" cafe many years ago, late wife loved working fer her.:) seem to recall cliff was on council in those days

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:Just love it when somebody makes me smile early in my morning:D

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:confused::confused:Who:confused::confused::D

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Just when I thought peace had returned the large metal sign on the metal fence is semi- detached and clangs like a door slamming at every slight gust of wind - a midday nap was impossible and ear plugs tonight will be needed.

The pavilion has been boarded up for the winter - or so we thought.
Latest news on the grapevine is - contractor returns next week to solve a problem - water pressure is inadequate for all the showers in there - a pump house may be needed.

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The saga continues.
The coach which turns round on the allotment car park (think it's the school swimming bus), reversed into the new fencing. A fence pole now leans inwards.

Due to there being no heating in a building which needs to 'dry out' and which has been boarded up for weeks on end(no ventilation), there is now interior mould growth ruining the newly painted interior walls.
Any contractor should have seen this coming.

I have been told that a trench across the length of the allotment car park and across the (newly tarmaced) pavilion car park, will be dug to lay a gas pipeline to the pavilion. This didn't happen last year when the other mains services were laid, because the contractor mistakenly assumed that the council owned the land where the trench needs to be, when in fact it is owned by Hyndburn Homes and forms part of the land area relating to the flats.

I can expect my gas supply to be temporarly interrupted late February whilst the gas pipeline is laid.
This will render my heating, hot water and cooking facilities useless whilst it is likely that winter weather will still be with us. I suspect that my combi boiler will need restarting and I don't know how.

As you will have seen from my earlier posts, this project has lacked proper planning and has been a disruptive nuisance for us nearby residents.

The groundwork on the draining of the pitches is behind schedule and cannot be restarted until the Spring. So I have another summer of nuisance and noise in prospect.

It looks likely that no use of the field for football will be possible until 2013.
Since I have no liking for football, this is the only saving grace of this whole fiasco.

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This week has been traumatic enough, and just when I thought the worst was over, the work on the playing field site has resumed.-
Stihl saw alternating with pneumatic drill from 8.30.
A trench for a gas supply has been dug alongside the gable end of our flats and now they are chomping through the concrete footpath.

I think I will rent a tent and pitch it under Eros on Picadilly and have a quiet few days away:rolleyes:

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Life ain't been easy for you this week has it Margaret, but as somebody once said Things can only get better:rolleyes:

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I never enjoyed sports lessons at school and was not surprised when I read that the last government had made 2 hours a week of physical activity compulsory. Like many things that are 'compulsory', physical excercise is supposed to be 'good for you' even when you don't enjoy it.

I recall being dressed in just blouse and knickers on a field in winter, in a howling gale, pushing a ball around with a curved stick because some sadist considered it was 'good for me'.

This week that compulsion for pupils to have two hours excercise has been removed.
Olympic legacy: Coalition axes school sports targets - Telegraph

We have read about Rhyddings School having reduced pupil numbers and teaching staff redundancies. This is just as the Heys Field Football pavilion is approaching completion and goal posts and white lines are all that is left to do. It provided me with 18 months of misery living next to a building site but that is not your concern is it?

It may well prove to be an expensive white elephant and a drain on county council finances for its maintenance costs.

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I used to love sport at school, my favourite was Cross Country Running, and badminton, carried on playing badminton when I left school, but cross country went by the board

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Apart from school use (Rhyddings School and Hippings Methodist School) the Heys Playing Fields will be used by Oswaldtwistle St. Mary's Football Club which has three senior and nine junior teams, including some girls. The Club is looking forward to having the use of these facilities and strengthening its links with the local community.

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It's good to know that enduring 18 months of mucky dust, rubble and noise won't be wasted.

I have now browsed the StMarys website and it appears that they have numerous teams who will use it, and with the exception of the first team who have used Livingstone Rd, the teams have used the Harvey St/Foxhill field facilities.

It will justify the LCC costs of gas, electricity, water, telephone rental, cleaning, and grounds maintenance that such a luxurious facility will incur.

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I'm sure they'll feel sorry for you Margaret:rolleyes:

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I don't regard anything to do wi exercise as luxurious.:eek:

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I wish I could:eek::D

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The new facility has been operational for a few weeks and is being used on Saturdays and Sundays and several weekday evenings.

The car park appears to be inadequate. Today it is full again and some cars are parked on the road.

I have needed to reschedule my grocery delivery day to avoid the risk that the van can't park nearby.

I am not suggesting that the car park be enlarged (and all the aggro that would cause - seen enough bulldozers to last a lifetime !)

...I am just saying that what is a wonderful amenity for some is an unfortunate inconvenience for a few.

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Well we'll just get um to shut it down Margaret, hell have it inconveniencing your grocery delivery can we :rolleyes:

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I think that you wouldn't be pleased if you needed an ambulance and due to road parking you had to be paraded on a stretcher for a journey of several minutes to reach the vehicle.

The car park overspill is just a reflection of the lack of planning when designing the site. Several instances of which have been obvious during the build.

The car park layout does not conform to the original plan which was placed before the planning committee.

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Margaret when have you seen any facility like this with adequate parking, if they had to allow for a parking space for every body who had a car it would be just one great big car park and no playing fields, as for being wheeled to an ambulance it happens every time I go to hospital they have to cart me about 50 yards to an ambulance they just get on with it it part of life when you live in flats