Norden village green application to be heard at Tuesday's cabinet meeting

Heritage Green, at the junction of Caldershaw Road and Cut Lane in Norden

An application to consider whether land in Norden should become a village green will be heard before cabinet on Tuesday (25 September).

The Friends of Heritage Green group applied for village green status for the land at the junction of Caldershaw Road and Cut Lane in Norden back in 2015 after persuading the council to retract its plans to sell the Heritage Green.

The Friends group has continued to endeavour to register Heritage Green as a Village Green to ensure the field remains a playing field forever.

The application was delegated to Cheshire East Council in 2016, with Rochdale Council having chosen not to determine the outcome itself because of a possible conflict of interest, given that it owns the land.

The application to grant Village Green status was taken back by Rochdale Borough Council in June this year - despite previously passing the decision to an external local authority last year due to a "conflict of interest."

https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/138/community-news/119659/village-green-application-for-heritage-green-taken-back-by-rochdale-council

The latest cabinet agenda currently omits the application, despite it being due to be heard before the public.

Mark Hope, a spokesman for the Friends of Heritage Green, said: “Remarkably, it hasn't been published yet, so we don't know what is being recommended. As always, nothing runs smoothly with our application. We don't know which way this is going to go.”

Rochdale Borough Council has not responded to clarify why the application is absent.