Please let us know how you feel about the loss of these tress and what you feel should happen.
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The Rossendale Labour group share your dismay about the destruction of these trees and the lack of consideration of residents by certain developers. We are also concerned that an application to purchase the land (covered by trees)adjacent to the present ASDA store on Bocholt Way has been received by the council ‘to build a retaining structure for retail park development’
I have just found the following comment on Rochdale Online from a woman who lives in the USA but who originally came from the area. Her comments about her return to her native home are illuminating. (No pun intended.) :-
“I have to agree. Was not to crazy about the ASDA store in Rawtenstall Stood out like a sore thumb. I suppose that the made use of the small plot of land it is on. Could have built it over on the land they had the old one on. Still could have made it a 2 story on there I would think.”
Well, the Asda has been here a while now and I suppose we should all have got used to it. Grown to love it perhaps but no, it is as garish and out of place as ever it was. It adds nothing and detracts much.
Now we face the desecration of Holly Mount and God knows what Hursteads will do with the old college. (Yes, I know it’s going to be a hotel but what SORT of hotel?)
I am not going to slag Hursteads off. No doubt some of their projects add to the locale and blend in. However, there are other projects where they just come in, trample over the objections of local residents and build whatever they can get away with. As a company, they need to be far more sensitive to the are and to the feelings and sensibilities of the inhabitants.