New moorland burning research vindicates #HebdenBridge Ban the Burn campaign

Posted on October 3, 2014 by jenny

The Moorland Burning Season started on October 1st and carries on until next April.

Over the last two years, Hebden Bridge-based group Ban the Burn has been challenging Natural England’s decision to allow the grouse-shooting Walshaw Moor Estate to burn moorland above the town.

The Estate does this in order to make conditions more suitable for raising red grouse – despite the fact that Walshaw Moor is a protected Natura 2000 Site – an area of peatland and blanket bog that is a site of special scientific interest and home to various plants and wildlife that are protected by law. Continue reading →

Hebden Bridge Save Our Shops beats Sainsbury’s in Planning Committee battle this evening

Posted on September 16, 2014 by jenny

Protesters from Hebden Bridge who want to save the town’s shops went head to head with Sainsbury’s tonight and won.

Meeting at Halifax Town Hall, Calderdale Council Planning Committee rejected the shopping giant’s proposal to build in the town on the grounds that Sainsbury’s large delivery lorries could disrupt access, parking and traffic flow.

Sainsbury’s is expected to appeal against the decision.

A local group, SOS – Save Our Shops, has been campaigning for the last 9 months to preserve this ‘totally local’ town. They objected to the planning application at the Planning Committee meeting, along with Calder ward Councillor Dave Young and Hebden Royd parish council mayor, Cllr Jonathan Timbers. Continue reading →

Save Our Shops Hebden Bridge calls for support at Planning Committee meeting

Posted on July 16, 2014 by jenny

Save Our Shops (SOS) Hebden Bridge are calling for people to support their campaign when Calderdale Council Planning Committee consider Sainsburys’ amendments to their planning application for the Old Fire Station site on Valley Road (Ref 13/01542/FUL) in Hebden Bridge.

The date of this Committee Meeting has not yet been set, but the Calderdale Planning Officer, Richard Seaman, has told SOS Hebden Bridge member Hilary Chadwick that it will be either on the 5th August, or on the 26th August – the day after the bank holiday. Planning Committee meetings take place in Halifax Town Hall and ones that are likely to interest the public usually are scheduled for 6pm.

Sainsburys have taken more than 4 months to submit this extra information and now they are pushing for a speedy outcome. Continue reading →

A cast iron case – Hebden Bridge’s barge ponies bench and how it got there

Posted on June 20, 2014 by jenny

One winter day, I was intrigued to see two cheeky brown pony head sculptures sniffing the air above the wall at the end of the road to Riverside School and the Post Office.

On the tow path the other side of the wall, the two ponies greeted me – bearing the weight of a wooden bench between them. They are enchantingly sturdy, elegant and cheerful. On their flanks, they are branded with the name of the artist – Lucy Casson – and Hargreaves Foundry in Halifax that cast the sculptures.

Nearly 20 years ago, I’d videotaped Lucy Casson making junk automata out of old Castrol oil cans scavenged from a dump, for an exhibition at the Wolf in the Door Gallery in Penzance. It had been fascinating to watch the process. Continue reading →

Hebden Bridge paints itself yellow pour Le Tour

Gallery

Posted on June 13, 2014 by jenny

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Calder ward forum unpicked Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS spin

Posted on April 2, 2014 by jenny

Growing disbelief and irritation were evident as around fifty people at yesterday’s Calder ward forum listened to a Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) presentation on the Right Care Right Time Right Place (RCRTRP) proposals for the future of the NHS and social care in Calderdale and Huddersfield. Continue reading →

Firebirds & Lovers – Arc poetry and film screening, 27th March in Hebden

Posted on March 25, 2014 by jenny

Sharing economy opens windows into new worlds

Posted on February 16, 2014 by jenny

Louise Heppleston writes about her experience as an Airbnb host in Hebden Bridge

Louise

Since the kids left home (with only a little prompting) I’ve had a spare room available. For two years it was occupied by a lad leaving care…and his stash of weed, his staffie and his under-age girlfriend.

A few months respite, and I had a failed asylum seeker in need of free board and lodging. And legal advice. And support to visit the immigration centre on a weekly basis.
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