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Robbie MacDonald

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Manchester
As seen in: LancsLive, Rossendale Free Press, The Bolton News, MSN, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, Yahoo Entertainment, BBC, BBC News, Markets Insider, The Daily Mirror, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News and
Covers:  District councils, conduct, devolution, economics, elections, environment, finance, tax, planning, regeneration, some police and crime, health, leisure, culture, housing and transport.
Doesn't Cover: County council remits such as highways and education.
Journalist with Local Democracy Reporting Service in Lancashire. Covering borough council politics for news media partners. Email: robert.macdonald@reachplc.com

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Journalist with the Local Democracy Reporting Service in Lancashire. Supplying media partners with independent, public interest news from five council districts - Lancaster, West Lancashire, Ribble Valley, Pendle and Rossendale.
Worked in journalism across the north since 2000. First the north-east and Yorkshire regions. Now the north-west.

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Residents submit petition fuming over £55,000 pergola installed in town event space

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By Robbie MacDonald Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
People in a Lancashire town are calling for a pagoda-style events space, said to have cost £55,000, to be moved. Critics say the red-roofed structure in a Waterfoot town centre car park is hampering customers trying to visit local businesses, has no planning permission and impacts on elderly residents living nearby. The pagoda – also described as a pergola – has been used to test different events and to help create a new Waterfoot 'town square' in a car park behind Burnley Road East.
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Anger over plans for 77 homes on historic parkland linked to Pendle Witches

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By Robbie MacDonald Verified
| Yahoo News UK Verified
A plan for 77 homes on historic parkland in a Lancashire village has sparked fears of over-development – and potentially a total of 700 homes being built there in future. There are also fears that development would harm the site's historic importance including links to a listed hall and the Pendle Witches. Seventy-seven houses are proposed for the land in the Ribble Valley village of Read. The site is known as Hammond Ground, north of Whalley Road, and associated with Read Hall.
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Fears over 77-home plan for historic Read parkland

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By Robbie MacDonald Verified
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