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Urgent! We’ve launched a petition against the dual carriageway – please click, sign and share. We need thousands of signatures.

We’ve just learned that tomorrow’s announcement by Highways England has been leaked a day early due to an error. The decision is that Highways England has opted to build a dual carriageway through Rimrose Valley. This will send a seismic shockwave through our community that will without doubt galvanise us all to action.  Through the conversations…

As you may be aware from our previous announcement here, there is 10K run (or walk, and a 5K option) – NATHAN’S 10K in Rimrose Valley Country Park is on the 17th September at 10 am.  Len and Gail, the organisers, are looking for volunteers to act as marshals at various points along the route.…

We’ve just learned that the Highways England announcement has been delayed until 1st September following a meeting yesterday involving Steve Rotheram, Liverpool Metro Mayor, where he has apparently asked for a postponement. We will report when there is more information

We all await the Highways England announcement of their preferred route option on 8th August. H.E. has told us that their announcement will be published on the Highways England A5036 webpage, click here to access it, however they have been unable to tell us at what time the announcement will be made so we’ll have to…

Rimrose Valley Friends has had a short film made to showcase our Fun Day event on 1st May.  It was great to see everyone coming together and having such a fab time. Almost 5000 people from all the Rimrose Valley communities, including Litherland, Waterloo, Ford, Crosby, Thornton, Seaforth and Bootle joined the fun. Thank you…

On 4th May we all get to vote for the first Liverpool City Region Mayor.  Some of our supporters have expressed interest in finding out what the position is of each candidate on the threat of the road through Rimrose Valley. We wrote to each mayoral candidate and asked for a written response. Click here to see…

Rimrose Valley Friends has been awarded charity status We’re delighted to announce that The Charities Commission has approved our application to become a registered charity (registered charity number 1171536) This means Rimrose Valley Friends now operates as a charity with a Board of Trustees who will ensure the organisation operates to the Charities Commission’s strict…

We wanted to shout out a massive THANK YOU to the organisers and leafletters who got this SCAR leaflet out to 15,000 homes around Rimrose Valley over the last few days.  The leaflet was created by SCAR – Sefton Communities against Roadbuilding – to raise awareness and encourage people to respond to the Highways England consultation ‘Option B’ (a dual…

Save Rimrose Valley! Volunteers needed to deliver leaflets! Can you spare some time to deliver these SCAR leaflets to the roads around where you live?  If so please email enquiries@rimrosevalleyfriends.org giving your name, address and phone number and we will get in touch with you to drop off a supply. We’re against the clock.  We…