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Road Closure Harlington to Adwick

The road between Harlington and Adwick upon Dearne will be closed from 5th March 2012 to allow for the infill the small disused bridge, just before Holme Bridge, on the approach to Harlington from Adwick.

 You will have been notified by Doncaster Council by a letter

Diversions signs will be in place and have also been notified to you by the council.  Residents will be aware that they can also access Manvers and Wath Upon Dearne via Goldthorpe, and Bolton upon Dearne

Green Lane Community Website.

The residents of Green Lane now have there own website.  Create by Glen Smith . One of its objectives is to  keep our residents informed of public meetings, news, community organisations, and events.  You can visit their site here
 

Waste Incineration Plant at Bolton Road, Manvers

THERE will be NO incinerator at Manvers... but

there WILL be a giant mechanical-biological treatment plant on the Bolton Road site.

Specialist waste organisation 3SE will develop the facility to treat household waste from the boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham.

Yet even as anti-incinerator campaigners were celebrating the news, they were gearing up for battle again – over the traffic that will flood in and out of the new plant.

Bolton resident Sue Sharp of Dearne Valley AIM (Against Incineration at Manvers) said: “Naturally we are pleased not to get an incinerator, and we believe we have had some impact on that decision – that our opposition made the authorities stop and think.

“But where do we go from here? We are very concerned about the huge amount of traffic that will be generated by the composting unit – that’s our main worry. We are also told there won’t be smells spreading from the plant... but will that be the case?

“We still feel this is not the right place for any waste scheme of this size – the infrastructure just isn’t good enough.

“We are also unhappy that the BDR Waste Partnership promised to keep us in the loop at all times, but never has! We have had to find out facts through the Times, or on our own!

 

 

 

Litter Group's Tackle You Rubbish

An Anti-Litter Group formed by local residents braved the February weather to tackle the litter dropped around the villages

Local Organiser Val Jones reports:

"Although we woke up to rain on the arranged pick-up day in February, and it was still raining at the allotted meeting time, there was a band of 11 merry men, women, children and 1 dog, all still eager to clean up the village !
We divided up into 4 groups, each group tackling a different area . After around two hours, we had collected 21 bags of rubbish, a wheelbarrow, a house letter box and , what appeared to be, the frame of a gazebo !

Again, a big thank you to all who gave up their Saturday morning cleaning up after other people.

If you'd like to help on the clear up please contact a parish councillor here

And here is 'YOUR' rubbish that they cleared for you!