SOS Hebden Bridge, variously named as Save Our Shops Hebden Bridge or Sod Off Sainsbury’s Hebden Bridge, is calling on people who don’t want to see a Sainsbury’s Local on the site of the old fire station on Valley Road to write letters asap to Calderdale Council Planning Committee, objecting to the Sainsbury’s planning application.
A stall with information about the rapid privatisation of Calderdale NHS surprised many members of the public in Hebden Bridge on Saturday morning.
The stall, under the Christmas tree in St George’s Square, was run by members of Calderdale NHS 38 Degrees, a group which campaigns to keep the NHS public and stop backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
Janet Bertola, a member of Calderdale NHS 38 Degrees group, said,
“NHS privatisation’s going on before our eyes, but we just don’t see it.”
Eileen Wright, a Hebden Bridge resident, admitted:
“I don’t know anything about this.”
The Soup Dragon, an initiative of Hebden Bridge Transition Town Health group, is open on Friday afternoons between 12 and 3 at Holme Street Arts centre (next to Hebden Bridge post office). Everyone is welcome to drop in and enjoy organic soup provided by Fern and Clive from the Nutclough and organic bread donated by Saka Bakery. There are regular talks and workshops exploring mind, body and spiritual well being.
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At a public meeting on 3rd December in Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Shan Oakes – one of the Green Party’s Prospective European Parliamentary Candidates for Yorkshire & Humber – will speak on Fighting for Fairness: from Local to Global.
All are welcome at the 7.30pm meeting in the HB Town Hall Terrace Room. Calderdale Green Party is organising the meeting.
People who are attending the Planning Committee meeting at 6pm in Halifax Town Hall may be able to get back to Hebden Bridge in time for this meeting, if they’re so inclined.
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Please consider signing Incredible Edible Mytholm’s petition (Scroll down the page a bit to find it.) The petition calls on Calderdale Planning Committee to refuse a developer’s retail impact assessment statement, about the effects on the town of a hypothetical supermarket, and the related supermarket and hotel planning application.
The retail impact assessment statement makes it clear that no supermarket is associated with the planning application or is interested in locating on the site on King St, Hebden Bridge. So this is a speculative planning application aimed at whacking up the sale price of the site. It’s not aimed at creating a handy alternative to the Coop for Hebden’s discontented shoppers.
Reporting Environmental Protest: Journalists and the Greenpeace Arctic 30
Photographer Steve Morgan & Greenpeace staff member Paul Morozzo will discuss this topic at a public meeting at 7.30pm, Thurs Dec 5th in the Terrace Room, Hebden Bridge Town Hall.
All are welcome.
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Incredible Edible Mytholm had a stall last Saturday in St George’s Square, to chat to people about our proposals for an eco-attraction on Browns Field/Mytholm Works brownfield site. We carried out some market research, to find out if people would visit the eco attraction, and collected signatures in support of the project.
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The EU Commission has invited Hebden Bridge campaigners to comment on findings from the first stage of its investigation into Natural England’s 2012 management agreement and Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd (WMEL).
Both agreements cover Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd ’s intensified use of the moors for its grouse shooting business.
Arc Publications warmly invites you to a reading by 2 Catalan poets, Manuel Forcano & Josep-Lluís Aguiló and 2 Armenian poets Violet Grigorian & Hasmik Simonian on Monday 14 October 2013 at 7 pm at the Crown Inn, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge.
Poet Violet Gregorian
Price of admission is £4 / £2 (concessions) on the door.
Food is available until 8 pm
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The Town Hall Terrace Room was full for the Calderdale Green Party public meeting on fracking, addressed by Kirklees Cllr, Andrew Cooper.
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