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Every time you shop at Tesco until 25th Feb you can vote for Rimrose Valley Friends to win a £5000 cash award which we will use towards improving some of the main entrances to Rimrose Valley.  Simply ask the person at the checkout for the blue tokens and then put them into the Rimrose Valley Friends charity…

Supporters of Rimrose Valley Friends are the first to know that SCAR, the newly formed community campaign group that is opposed to any further port access road development, has today launched their website. Click here to visit the SCAR website and whilst you’re there please click the link to Join the SCAR Campaign. We’d also be…

A residents-only campaign group is close to launch, called “Sefton Communities Against Roadbuilding” or SCAR. It’s a community-led group aiming to give residents a voice regarding the impacts of local road development options. The launch later this month will be well in advance of Highways England’s anticipated January announcement on which road “option” is favoured,…

The illegal use of scrambler bikes in Rimrose Valley and the surrounding roads causes a great deal of upset and distress to people as well as the obvious safety risks.  Rimrose Valley Friends is calling on the communities to repeat the outstanding efforts of 2015 and phone the Police with each and every sighting and any information you have.…

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…

“Everyone is welcome to come and show their support for Rimrose Valley” For what will be an opportunity to further raise the profile of Rimrose Valley and our concerns over a possible road, we will be welcoming Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party. For anyone who wishes to turn up and show your support for Rimrose Valley, Ms…

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,…

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…

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…

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…