An article in the Rossendale Free Press (30th June 2006) stated that no more trees would be cut down from the Holly Mount site and that “our thinning out work, which is now complete, will actually allow the remaining trees to flourish” (Daniel Hartley, Senior Planner). He went on to say ,“We propose to submit landscaping details so that the tree planting can take place on the boundaries of the site.”
To find out more about these plans, and bring our concerns directly to Hurstwoods, we contacted Daniel Hartley to request a meeting with him. After some persuasion that we were rationale, normal people (he didn’t want to come to a meeting with thirty people all shouting at him!) he agreed to meet a small number of representatives from HORRA on Friday 21st July. This is an account of that meeting for those members of HORRA who couldn’t attend and as a statement of what happened.
