What a shame

Have just been a walk round the lake at Rowley,there was a lone fisherman casting his net under the watchful eye of a grey heron perched on the railings of the weir.
What a shame that the councils answer to good husbandry doesn't extend to maintaining the trees and shrubs by pruning them and keeping the paths cleared of overhanging branches so people can enjoy the beauty of the area.

[Mattylad]

Rowley is in need of a bit of a clean up, yet people still visit it to feed the ducks etc.
AFAIK The fishing club does do work on it but IMO thier remit only extends to the water & fishing areas.

Perhaps a suggestion to the parks dept of the council is warranted?

Ssomehow I think that I need to visit it again for a spot of fishing, from all accounts it may have improved slightly, perhaps the fish are wanting to fatten up for winter.
Problem is there were too many louts being a pain last few times I went.

The fishing club don't seem to have done any work this year at all. In the past they kept the paths round the lake free of overhanging shubbery and kept the paths built up and did a good job I must say.
Have complained to the council but their answer is lack of money and men to do the job. The other end of the lake at the Thornton Arms they have just cut all the shrubs down to the ground and the parking bays are full of moss and glass.

[Mattylad]

Parking bays at the other end?

I only know of the parking area near the disabled fishing platform.
Do they make access to the other end of the lake easier?

I assume that the fishing club are finding it hard to find people to do this work, because it's all done freely by the anglers themselves & with Rowley not being very fishable this past year they might not have it as a priority.
Now it's winter they are less likely to find help doing this in the wet & miserable state it will be in.

They have recently done a lot of work on Lowerhouse lodge & a new lodge near the Calder, but then these are more fishable areas, I think that Rowley is possibly thought to be not worth the bother.

I dare say that footpaths would be under the remit of the parks dept
But then as you say, they claim not to have the money to do it.

Tell them that it needs some new kerbstones, they will do that!

If you go into the carpark at the side of the Thornton Arms there are two other carparks, they all belong to the Borough Council and lead onto a path at the top end of the lake.

[Digsyboy]

You are lucky to have Rowley and Townley and parks and stuff

Don't have anything like that round here. Anything green, the council sells off to business for yet another drive-thru etc.

We do have the beach though, but even that is shingle

:-(

[Mattylad]

[Homer simpson - doughnut voice]
oooeerrr, Sea fishing...
[/Homer simpson - doughnut voice]

[wayneyboy1942]

Spot on Digsy. Burnley has loads of parks and nice countryside when some people who have never visited the town think it's all factory's smoke and is grim. We have a council who will build over anything green your very lucky.
(Matty your no longer something to do with snowmen :) )

[Robert]

I know many people who have come to Burnley have been amazed that its surrounded by countryside and hills and Pendle Hill always seems to amaze them.

But like your own gardens, if you don't look after them properly they soon become a wilderness.

[jaseyboy]

the whole set up of burnley is going to the dogs

take scot park as an example, 13 years ago it was great, a lovely park that i loved playing on. now look at it. its a wreck. and its louts that damage and vandalise place like that that give us teenagers a very bad name!

[jaseyboy]

take scot park as an example, 13 years ago it was great, a lovely park that i loved playing on. now look at it. its a wreck. and its louts that damage and vandalise place like that that give us teenagers a very bad name!

[grannyclaret]

i used to take the kids to all those parks when they were little;i remember there were swans up scott park once,but like everthing else they were not able to survive because of yobos invading their nests under the bridge,why does anything of any value have to be distroyed,G.C.