Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum
Working together to protect and enhance our neighbourhood
Catley Lane Head received the top level award of outstanding in the, “It’s Your Neighbourhood” category at Wednesday’s (31 October 2018) RHS Britain in Bloom Awards in Southport.
Well done Helen Moore, Elaine Marsden and everyone involved. This is a massive achievement for your first attempt!
It was really great to see everyone at last nights AGM.
The RMNF Trustees are very pleased to announce the appointment of three new trustees:
Wendy, Phil and Steve bring a tremendous amount of expertise and knowledge to our forum, which is very welcome.
Councillor Cecile Biant and Reverend Morley Morgan were re-appointed as trustees. Morley volunteered for the position of Vice Chair and John Newcombe volunteered to be our Treasurer.
Another ‘Catley Carols’ will be arranged in December, we’ll advise arrangements nearer the time.
We agreed any income, after expenses, from the 2019 RMNF Calendar will be used to support the 2019 Catley Lane Head ‘In Bloom’ initiative.
And finally, everyone at the meeting agreed it would be a great idea to hold another forum event, probably in August next year. We’ll be sure to keep you informed as our plans develop.
Links to the minutes and actions from our meeting are below. If you have any questions, please email: info@RMNF.org.uk
The 2019 RMNF calendar is here and copies will be available at tonight’s AGM.
The cost is £5 each and you can also get your copy from:
Alternatively, send an email to: info@RMNF.org.uk and we can make arrangements to collect or deliver.
You are invited to the RMNF AGM on Thursday 25th October 2018 at 7:30pm, Spotland Methodist Church, Rooley Moor Road, Rochdale OL12 7ES.
Please see the agenda and reports pack. It would really help the meeting process if you read the agenda and reports pack beforehand and either advise, by return email, any questions you have, or ask your questions at the appropriate point in the meeting.
Those forum member who have voting rights and are not able to attend the meeting, but wish to vote, can contact the forum to be advised about the other options to vote that are available.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know the RMNF trustees have reviewed all the comments made during the “pre-submission consultation” and our unanimous decision was to make some slight changes and to submit the Plan to the Local Planning Authority (Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council), which has now been done.
During the review it became apparent from some of the comments that a small number of people have misunderstood the role of our forum in planning.
Our forum DOES NOT make planning decisions – This has always been done by the local planning authority – Please see the “Planning Decision Process” map below, which is an existing process; the only difference being that if the Plan is adopted, it would be included in the process.
Our Forum DOES NOT make new legislation. The Plan wording is merely a reflection of the majority view of people in the community. The policies are taken from existing legislation and reflect the communities view in a form of words that are acceptable for the Plan, if adopted, to form part of Rochdale’s Local Plan.
Next Steps. The Plan will now go to the October Township meeting where the Township Committee will either approve or decline having the Local Planning Authority publicise the Plan for another six weeks and arranging an independent examination. It would be great if as many people as possible from our community could attend this meeting and we will let you know the date as soon as it is available. This meeting will also be a great opportunity for people to have their say if they support or object to the Plan.
The examination process is an independent check carried out by an Inspector appointed by government. If certain ‘basic conditions’ are met, the Plan can go to a local ‘Referendum’ for approval. When the referendum takes place, if 50% or more of those who vote support the Plan it can be declared ‘made’ and it becomes part of the statutory Local Plan and will be included for the process of determination for planning applications and appeals in our area.
We hope you agree we are fortunate to have RMNF, a registered charity, focused on benefiting the area in which we live. If the Plan is adopted our forum will be in a great position to consider delivering some of the projects identified in the Plan. A charity is very different from a commercial organisation, all trustee time and effort is given for free, no trustee should have any personal gain from forum activities and members of the forum, YOU, are best place to direct forum activities by telling us what is important to the majority of people in the area.
Another great benefit of the forum is that we are a consultee to planning applications in, or affecting our area. This doesn’t stop individuals making their own representations in the usual manner and where an application is outside the scope of our neighbourhood plan (if adopted), forum trustees are able to arrange meetings to seek the views of the community and feed that information back through the consultation process. The forum is also able to seek expert advice on particular matters.
We hope you support our neighbourhood forum and Plan and we look forward to seeing you at our next AGM that will be in late August or early September, we’ll let you know the date soon as it is available.
Copies of the submitted plan and consultation statement can be found on the home page of our website.
Kind regards,
Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum Trustees
Dear Neighbours,
You may have noticed we have begun to tidy up our lovely village in readiness for our first entry in the Rochdale In Bloom competition. We are entered in the “Neighbourhood” category.
Judging day is not yet confirmed but SHOULD be around the beginning of July.
You will have seen us around the village (two women with grey hair in gloves . . Felicity and sidekick!).
The next step is to involve as many of you, our neighbours, in the spirit of “In Bloom” who feel willing and able to help. It’s infectious, many of you have begun and have already put up hanging baskets, window boxes and cleared flags and paths.
If anyone else would like help with putting up new baskets and boxes, please let us know ASAP – we have a man with a drill!
We also have spare top soil.
If you have any questions (or of course things that you are unhappy with) do let us know.
We ask for some extra help with some final weeding and cutting back and plan a whole village attack with a working party on Saturday 16th June 1000 to 1200 – Meet at the cattle grid.
Please bring yourself and weapons if you can spare us some time.
Finally, we would like to thank the following kind sponsors to date:
Yours,
Helen and Elaine (1 & 13 Smallshaw Rd)
Horse riders from Rossendale, Wardle , Bury, Bolton and Rochdale descended on Catley Lane Head on Rooley Moor Road for this year’s Pennine Rendezvous held on 27th May.
The brainchild of The National Federation of Bridleways Associations (NFBA), this annual get-together occurs in different areas of The Pennines and this year it was the turn of Rochdale and Bury Bridleways Association to be the hosts.
The idea of the event is to highlight the importance of bridleways and byways to horse riders as safe off-road areas to ride and to show riders routes they can use outside of their normal riding area.
This year’s event was blessed with superb weather. Each particpant was awarded a rosette by The Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, Warren Smith. Cosima Towneley, the chair of NFBA, introduced the Lord Lieutenant and described the aims of the event.
The rosettes celebrated the 70th anniversary of The British Horse Society which was founded in 1947 and were also to mark that May is Ride Out UK Month 2018 which is all about raising awareness of off-road riding and the need to protect and restore multi-user routes across the UK.
The event raised £155 for North West Air Ambulance.
Thank you to everybody who has been involved to date, we have some of the best green space in Rochdale, from Rooley Moor to Falinge Park, and everywhere in between. Our community spirit is evidenced by just how many people have contributed to make Spotland & Falinge look so fantastic by working together, not just for the In Bloom competition, but for all who live and work here. We have an amazing community.
Our wards contribution to this years Rochdale In Bloom competition is progressing well. The first judging date is the earliest it’s ever been on 3rd and 4th July! We need your help to pull together our entries and get them into excellent condition for the judges.
The first planned event is this Monday 28 May from 10am, where we will be helping the residents of Alice Ingham Court on Ings Lane boost their IYN entry, please come along with some gloves and a spade.
Throughout the next several weeks we need as many people as possible to come together to maintain the route, report problems, pick-up litter, etc. ideally once a week. The route brings the judges down Edenfield Road, through Denehurst Park, out onto Sandy Lane to the Wonderwall, before progressing along Sandy Lane and out of our ward onto Roch Valley Way. This activity will be especially important in the days leading up to judging. Please get in touch if you are able to participate in any way at all.
Below is the full list of currently planned events:
Event: In Bloom IYN – Alice Ingham Court – Volunteers to help boost the entry (we may also spend some time on the Rochdale AFC Wonderwall if possible)
Location: Alice Ingham Court, Ings Lane/Lisbon Street, OL12 7AP
Event: Spotland & Falinge Area Fourm
Location: Spotland Methodist Church, Rooley Moor Road
Event: Spotland & Falinge In Bloom Meeting
Location: Spotland Library
Event: Wonderwall Summer Planting Session
Location: Rochdale AFC Wonderwall, Sandy Lane
Event: Bloom-IngSpotland Urban Walking Trail Opening Day
Location: Next to Spotland Library
Event: Rochdale In Bloom Regional Judging
Location: Borough wide
Event: Rochdale In Bloom National Judging
Location: Boroughwide
Event: Spotland & Falinge Area Forum
Location: Spotland Methodist Church, Rooley Moor Road
Event: Denehurst Park Gardening Volunteer Session
Location: Denehurst Park
May
June & July
August
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