Minutes 150th meeting held 19th September 2017
Minutes of the 150th meeting held 19th September 2017 at Hare Hill House Starting at 7.30pm
Present: Ian Jackson; Julian Farnell; Brian Holden, Barry Horner, John F Kay, Bob Weatherley,
Apologies for absence from Cllr Ann Stott, Keith Hallam, Jon Stopp and Janet Emsley
Minutes of the last meeting were discussed and used as agenda items for this meeting.
Littleborough Civic Trust
IJ updated the meeting on the Civic Trust
JFK as treasurer of Littleborough Civic Trust confirmed that the sum of £1,779.82 was held in the account on behalf of LCDG
Canal & River Trust
IJ informed the meeting that the Tow Path Task Force was now operational. They have planted wild flowers and almost completed the stone wall at Ealees which had fallen into disrepair some 25 years ago.
More of their work is now concentrating of the Rochdale Canal
Anyone wishing to join the Tow Path Task Force should contact IJ on wackojacko@talk21.com
Café Boat Scheme
The mooring application to C&RT, has received approval “in principle” and copies of their letter of confirmation were distributed.
We will now prepare and submit an application for planning permission from Rochdale MBC
Julian Farnell has been in touch with the planning office who are very supportive. He will download the forms and complete the same with help from IJ and JFK
This will be submitted as soon as it is ready.
The application will cover
- A plan of the site which has already been prepared by Nick Andrews
- The fact we have no need for a supply of either Electricity or Water
- An+
- y deliveries can be made from the public road and car park
- Refuse disposal will be by means of a Skip on the adjoining land
- Any “grey water” will be collected in a dedicated contained and disposed of either in the sewage system in the adjoining building or at the sanitary station at Schofield Street
- Arrangements have been made for staff to use the toilet facilities at Julian Farnell’s garage.
- The business will be exclusively “take away” and so there is no requirement to provide toilet facilities for the public.
Work on the boat will start shortly. It is planned to move it to the site at Schofield Street where to hull can be renovated and the boat can then be moved under cover for fitting out.
There were now several volunteers to help with this work
The information for the insurance proposal was provided. The boat is strictly not to be used for competitive water skiing !
A press release has been prepared and JFK will now submit this to Rochdale Online
Akzo Nobel Site
It had been reported that someone has accessed the site to carry out some work. No further information is available
Date of Next Meeting
Tuesday 17th October 2017
Tuesday 21st November 2017
Tuesday 16th January 2018