Council get something right!!

Hmm,thinking a lot about this one;my Uncle isn't usually one to play the wrong hand in these things and he voted for,from what I gather he reckons we should go with the least offensive and unobtrusive suggestion that will then give the funding to repair all the pathways,put picnic benches in etc.He reckons that by saying no to it all the town will lose all the potential funding and the bill to just restore the Coppice paths is way beyond council means now;let alone restore the Coppice to it's former glory.

Looking at it from that point of view,maybe he is right;how else is the funding going to be found? I still think it's a ludicrous idea but if it helps restore something to the Coppice maybe we should consider it and try and "down size " the plans!
Feel free to have a go at me,but the bloke has lived here all his life and isn't generally given to flights of fancy!
 
Well, at long last sense has prevailed. A similar story to this was on the front of the L.E.T tonight.....it went something like 'HILLOCKS'.....or at least I think that's what it said.
 
Do you think that barmy britcliffe has been reading threads in here as UNREGISTERED and thought ''oh bugger better not do it''??;)
 
I think he might have been reading what we have posted Slinky, but I think a few of the members on here have e-mailed him as well.
Lindsay, there still might be a chance that something will be done on the Coppice....it just won't be telly tubby land. According to the L.E.T this guy Nick Hunt is still hopeful that some kind of artwork might find favour.
I just think that the present plan was poorly thought out, and there is already erosion to the pathways up there, and as you say there is no money in the borough for the paths to be repaired......and in any case the repair to the pathways and access to the site would have still been the boroughs responsibility.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
I think he might have been reading what we have posted Slinky, but I think a few of the members on here have e-mailed him as well.
Lindsay, there still might be a chance that something will be done on the Coppice....it just won't be telly tubby land. According to the L.E.T this guy Nick Hunt is still hopeful that some kind of artwork might find favour.
I just think that the present plan was poorly thought out, and there is already erosion to the pathways up there, and as you say there is no money in the borough for the paths to be repaired......and in any case the repair to the pathways and access to the site would have still been the boroughs responsibility.
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Still laughing at ISSAC as his first name hehehehe.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
A similar story to this was on the front of the L.E.T tonight.....it went something like 'HILLOCKS'.....or at least I think that's what it said.
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Must have been :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: Coupled with PB saying no, no, no, got
to be the best news of the day.
 
What's all this about "former glory"? It's a hill for goodness sakes. It's not a theme park!

When I saw the "Hillocks!" headline and read that PB was against the idea my first thought too was that he must have been reading the AccyWeb! OOOer. Do you think he's seen my poster?

I honestly think that renewing the paths and putting some picnic tables and doing up the shelter and the monument are really what the Coppice needs and not some daft panopticon scheme which is only going to cost money to maintain. How it can be thought to bring money into the town I still haven't fathomed out.
 
If they are going to put anything up there it should reflect the towns past heritage. A monument to the East Lancs or something to remember the towns mining heritage. Now’t tacky, just something small and meaningful.
 
I`ve been delving into this and could find no mention of funds to upgrade the paths and monuments or build car parking spaces. Even Gayle Knight said in last weeks Observer that they hoped to find additional funding for this, as has happened in Rossendale. However, Rossendales site is an old quarry and attracts funding due to it being derelict and having previous industrial use. As our site is open moorland gifted to the borough there would be no way we could get extra funding, so the carrot they were dangling was more of a bribe. And of course Hyndburn can`t afford to maintain it`s existing parks ( as anyone has been through Milnshaw park recently will know). Oh and according to the local plan there would have to be disabled access, that Mid Pennine Arts seem to have overlooked.
Victory for Accyweb I say!!
 
It looks like it just might be - but don't count your chickens too soon. We thought we'd got somewhere with the Arndale Clock - even got a front page story in the Observer but all that has come to nothing.
 
why do we need footpaths up the coppice

i thought the idea of walking up there was to get away from streets, tarmac and paths etc

simply wear appropiate footware lol i used to play up there every day and managed to get to the top wearing trainers with no problems at all
 
Some people aren't so fit and able, and legally we're not supposed to deprive them of our amenities but quite apart from the legality why shouldn't a less able person have the opportunity to view our illustrious borough from such a vantage point?
 
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