Conservation Area Consultation

Catley Lane Head Conservation Area Consultation

The consultation page on the council website can be found here.

The public consultation will take place between 13th July and 9th August.

Printed copies of the appraisal are available in Rochdale Central Library and Norden Library.

Letters about the appraisal will be sent to all property owners and occupiers within the proposed conservation area. Consultation will also include local heritage and amenity groups within the Township.

The closing date for comments is 9th August 2017.

Comments will be reported to the Township Committee where a final decision on designation of the Catley Lane Head Conservation Area will be taken.

Also see Rochdale OnLine.

Dates For Your Diary

Here are a couple of dates you might wish to put in your diary:
  • Sunday 23rd July 2017 – Catley Lane Head village clean up (in readiness for our community event) – Meet opposite the Barn at 10am. We plan to finish before lunch and I’ll ask Cecile for help with gloves, bin bags, etc.
  • Sunday 13th August 2017 – RMNF Community Event – 12 noon to 4pm, Catley Lane Head. Same place as last year, in the field behind the row of cottages on Rooley Moor Road, near to Smallshaw Road –  See Google Maps
Please email any questions to info@RMNF.org.uk

Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services

Rochdale & Bury Bridleways Association

has been recognised by the Queen in her Birthday Honours List and has won a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services, the group equivalent of an MBE.

As part of the Award two members of RBBA were invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace.

Information about the Award winners will be published in The London Gazette on 2nd June 2017. This will be accessible on-line.

Later in the year, at a presentation in Manchester, RBBA will receive a signed certificate from the Queen, an English Crystal with the QVAS logo insignia and permission to use the QAVS Logo on all correspondence. The Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester will be making the presentation.

Sid Calderbank

 

A date for your diary

Sid Calderbank will be at the next Norden & District Local History Society meeting on Monday 5th June 2017 at 7:00pm, Norden Bowling Club, Trinity Street, Norden.

“Sid Calderbank a TV & Radio broadcaster & Dialect historian brings us the songs, stories and poems of the time to tell how we survived the American Civil War.”

The cost is £2 per person.

You can find out more by calling Val Corns on 07812 447 460.

Neighbourhood Plan – Have YOUR say!

A paper copy of our questionnaire is being delivered to all households in our Neighbourhood Area.

Please take the time to read, complete and return the form. RMNF is a registered charity and it has been formed to help protect our area and to provide the opportunity to maintain and improve it. The purpose of the questionnaire is to allow local people the opportunity to say what they like (or dislike) about our area and to make suggestions about how it might be improved working in conjunction with Rochdale Council. Recent works undertaken on our bridleway’s, the new cattle grid, the repairs to Prickshaw Dam and the improvements that have taken place at Catley Lane Head have all been encouraged via the Neighbourhood Forum.

The questionnaire is an important part of ‘the way forward’. The results will be analysed and the wishes, aspirations and concerns of local people will be fed back via a Neighbourhood Plan which should then form part of the Council’s core strategy.

Once you have completed the form please either drop it off at the address on the returns envelope or pop it in the post.

If you would like any assistance completing this questionnaire please contact Alan Rawsterne on 07970715904 or email to: info@RMNF.org.uk

You can download more copies of the questionnaire here or, if you prefer, complete it online.

Please complete your questionnaire by Friday 30th June 2017

Once analysis is complete we will publish the results probably sometime towards the end of August or the beginning of September.