HARP

Ribble Valley Borough Council have the plans for the HARP project on the planning application website.

Can I please urge you to look at these, if passed they will have a huge impact on our lives for many years to come.

The parish Council are planning to hold an open meeting to discuss all aspects of the application before a formal response is made and I will let you know when a date has been arranged, the first thing is to try and take in the plans and believe me there is a lot of it to take on board, which in itself shows the size of the project.

The plans can be viewed by visiting Planning Application – Ribble Valley Borough Council

Please look and come back to us with any comments you would like to be made. newtonpc@boarsdenfarm.plus.com

HARP UPDATE

The Haweswater Aqueduct supplies fresh drinking water to people in Cumbria, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. To ensure that we can secure the quality and resilience of these water supplies, vital work is required to replace six sections of the pipeline amounting to one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the North of England.

We have been busy consulting with local authorities, councillors, communities and their representatives about our plans as part of our pre-application consultation, including physical exhibitions and an online virtual exhibition, engaging with over 12,500 people and receiving over 2000 feedback responses. We would like to say a big thank to everyone who took part!

Taking into consideration the feedback we have received as much as possible, we have now developed our latest proposed plans for the Bowland and Marl Hill sections which you can view by visiting the updated section of our virtual exhibition at www.harpconsultation.co.uk.

We are also running a live webinar on Thursday 3 June at 6pm, where members of our team will be talking through our latest plans and the virtual exhibition updates. If you would like to join this event you can register by visiting the virtual exhibition home page and following the online instructions.  

We will be submitting planning applications for these latest plans to Ribble Valley Borough Council and Lancaster City Council later in June 2021.

Best wishes,

HARP Stakeholder Relations

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

The Parish Council meeting due on 12^th May has had to be rearranged due to government legislation. For the last 12 months due to Covid-19 we were able to meet via remote means however from 7^th May we will be unable to do so and our meetings need to be held physically.

Due to this change, running alongside the current covid rules the plan is to hold the meeting on Wednesday 26^th May at 7.30pm in Newton Village Hall.

The meeting is open to everyone, but we ask if anyone wishes to attend they let us know in advance, so that we can adhere to the distancing rules.

Please let the clerk know if there are any items to go onto the agenda and if there are any changes to the meeting we will let you know in advance

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

The annual meeting for Newton-in-Bowland Parish Council is due to take place on Wednesday 12^th May at 7.30pm. If you would like anything to be placed on the agenda please let Sandra know.

The meeting is due to take place via Microsoft Teams, if you would like to join in please let me know and a link will be sent.

contact Sandra tel 448289, email newtonpc@boarsdenfarm.plus.com

HODDER WTW

There is to be a large convoy of vehicles on Monday 15th march heading over Waddington Fell through Newton to Slaidburn. This is a trial run to see that the vehicles can safely pass through. If there is a good result large machinery will follow the same route on Tuesday. Be prepared for slow traffic. Click here for more details

HARP

Please click here to see a list of Q&As following a meeting with RVBC and United Utilities

DOG WALKING/LITTER PICKERS

DOG WALKERS

The Parish Council are asking all dog owners to be considerate when walking their dogs.

They ask that dogs are kept on a lead at all times when passing through fields when livestock are present. This is important at all times but especially at this time of year when sheep are due to lamb, dogs chasing them can cause them to abort and after lambing may cause the lambs to  become upset and separated from their mothers, sometimes even rejected.

Also remember to clean up after your dogs, please use the bins situated in the village or take it home to your own bins, please do not leave it in a bag tied to a fence. Leaving this in fields can affect livestocks health.

LITTERPICKERS

We seem to be having a lot more litter thrown onto our grass verges as more visitors have been coming into the area over the last few months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Some of our residents have suggested that as they are walking locally they are happy to pick up litter as they go along, in an attempt to keep our parish tidy.

The Parish Council have acquired some litter pickers . If anybody would like to join us in keeping the village tidy and become one of the Newton Wombles please contact Sandra Tel 448289 or email newtonpc@boarsdenfarm.plus.com

THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AFTER OUR PARISH

HARP EIA SCOPING ASSESMENT

Please see below a link to the scoping assesment application submitted to RVBC by United Utilities for the Marl Hill Section of the HARP.

Please note that the name may be somewhat confusing as it is not going through marl Hill Area on Easington Road but going through Waddington Fell towards Waddington

If there are any comments to raise feel free to do so

Please click here for the link.

CONSUMER ALERT

Click here to see the latest consumer alert notification from LCC

HARP EIA SCOPING ASSESMENT

United Utilities have submitted their Environmental Impact Assesment to Ribble Valley Borough Council for the upcoming HARP. If you would like to see the proposals please click the link below

https://www.ribblevalley.gov.uk/planx_downloads/21_0119_Scoping_Report.pdf

The parish council will look at these proposals at their meeting next week. If there are any comments you would like to make please let Sandra know. Whilst we are able to make comments on the appraisal the parish council are not formally being consulted by the council at this stage.

The main reason for this addendum to the previous scoping request in 2019 is due to the introduction of a new haul route around Waddington.

To save any confusion our PC meeting due tonight has been postponed until next Wednesday 17^th Feb, so if you have any comments on this or any other item please let Sandra know so that they can be placed on the agenda