Rimrose Valley Friends – our political position

28 April 2016 – Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party, invited Rimrose Valley Friends to meet with her. People from all of the Rimrose Valley communities turned up to meet with her, with one united aim – which is to stand up for Rimrose Valley, making our voices heard and to shout out that…

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Summer Season Grass Cutting Update on Rimrose Valley

As many of you will be aware, last summer the council stopped cutting the grass between the St Mary’s Road and Derwent Road entrances in Waterloo (including the ex-Chaffers Playing Fields), giving it a single cut at the end of the season. The cutting had been stopped due to cutbacks, leaving the grass to grow long and wild,…

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Terry’s Top Tips for Birding

Dear Rimrose Valley Friends On April 10th we heard the song of the Chiffchaff. We came up close and saw the delicate majesty of the Robin – one having a ring on his leg. And 3 Buzzards is, after all, better than one – or even none. On another day we may have seen such…

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Highways England Shares Stage 1 Ground Investigation Report

Last autumn Highways England commissioned Atkins to carry out Stage 1 ground surveys on Rimrose Valley to build a picture of what lies beneath the surface, which we reported here.  They have now shared their results report with us.  It is a 290 page technical document so doesn’t make for light reading; but we’ve decided to share it…

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Highways England & Sefton Council Answer our Questions

On Feburary 25th we announced and shared a list of questions which we’d submitted jointly to Highways England and Sefton Council.  We have today received their responses which you can read by clicking this file: Some of the responses give clarity, some raise further questions and where questions haven’t been answered a reason has been given.  We have conveyed…

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Rimrose Valley Friends meet with Peter Dowd, MP

Delegates from Rimrose Valley Friends met with Peter Dowd MP on Thursday 17th March to discuss Highways England’s assessment of the two road options to improve road access to the Port of Liverpool. The purpose of the meeting was to establish Mr Dowd’s opinions and intentions of the best approach in dealing with the situation…

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Public Meeting – Dual carriageway through Rimrose Valley?

Saturday, 2nd April 10am – 12 noon. All welcome. At the SING PLUS Centre, Cambridge Road, Seaforth. L21 1EX, behind the Adult Education Centre (map) Are you worried about the looming threat of a road through Rimrose Valley?  Are you concerned about the increase in pollution should the A5036/Dunningsbridge Road be ‘enhanced’? Do you have…

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Attend a Highways England information event this week and make your views about a dual carriageway through Rimrose Valley known!

As previously reported, Highways England is running a series of information events to present the public with two road options to carry an ever increasing flow of heavy goods traffic between the motorway network and the docks.  As things stand, one of the two options will definitely be going ahead; and if the option to build a road…

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Road Questions Submitted to SMBC & Highways England

Following a meeting in February 2016 made up of 16 Rimrose Valley Friends, plus discussion and consultation through our Facebook group, we have today written jointly to the Chief Executive of Sefton Council and to the Project Lead for the Port of Liverpool road options at Highways England with a list of 27 questions pertaining to the possible…

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