WE SAID NO
In 2017, Highways England announced that they wanted to build a dual carriageway right through the middle of Rimrose Valley, a country park in Sefton near Liverpool. The only green space in a heavily populated and urbanised area. The purpose of this dual carriageway? To increase the capacity of the nearby Port of Liverpool, owned by Peel Ports. A privately owned organisation based in the Isle of Man. The WE SAID NO podcast tells the story of how the campaign to fight the road and the damage to both the environment and to public health came to be. And how its actions brought a community together in defiance of the Government's plans.
Episodes
17 episodes
We did it! Rimrose Valley is Saved!
On Wednesday 30th October 2024, after 7 long years of campaigning, the Port of Liverpool Access Road was finally cancelled in the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget. Despite this having been a possibility, the news still came as a shock to both the cam...
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Episode 15
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47:32
Liverpool's Most Wuthering Heights Day. Ever!
On Sunday 28th July, the Save Rimrose Valley campaign staged “Liverpool’s Most Wuthering Heights Day… Ever” at Rimrose Valley Country Park.The event, which celebrated Kate Bush’s birthday, saw hundreds of people from across Liverpool and...
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Episode 14
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19:43
Sefton Air Pollution. Take a deep breath.
In this special edition of our podcast series we are revisiting the topic of air pollution. We last covered this in 2021 and heard about just some of the impacts the poor air quality in our part of Sefton has on people’s lives. In ...
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Episode 13
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40:41
Flower Power
We’re approaching the end of winter and spring is on its way! With that in mind, we decided to take a closer look at one of the most popular projects our charity, Rimrose Valley Friends, has delivered in recent years. The creation of a ...
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Episode 12
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13:20
Looking back on 2022. And looking forward to 2023.
As 2022 comes to an end, members of our campaign team caught up to mull over the year, to reflect on some of the key developments, and to revisit some of the other projects undertaken by our charity, Rimrose Valley Friends.2023 is set to...
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Episode 11
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21:06
Welcome to Manchester
On Friday 26th August, a group of Save Rimrose Valley campaigners consisting of children, parents and grandparents hit the road and boarded a coach to Manchester. The trip was the campaign’s latest protest as they took the fight t...
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Episode 10
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17:17
Episode 9 - The National Game!
In this episode we focus on the game of football and how Rimrose Valley and the green space surrounding it hosts numerous, pitches clubs and leagues. We look at the massive physical and mental health benefits that come with people o...
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Episode 9
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16:40
Episode 8 – Do Sefton’s disused railway lines hold the key to port access?
A question our campaign is often asked is; why can’t Sefton’s network of railway lines solve the problem of port access? Many members of the community have pointed out the number of disused railway lines running from the dock that were active u...
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Episode 8
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27:20
Looking back on 2021
It's been an eventful and a positive year for the campaign. We've had protest events that were covered nationally. Activities and educational events on the valley for the first time in what seems like forever. In a year where most ...
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Episode 8
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12:06
Episode 7 – Underground Freight Transport: A REAL alternative to the Port Access Road
In 2020, Sefton Council commissioned engineering consultancy firm ARUP, world leaders in sustainable infrastructure, to look at different ways of transporting freight containers in and out of busy ports in locations such as ours.<...
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Episode 7
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30:55
Episode 6 - Voices from Rimrose - Esther's Story
Rimrose Valley means so much to so many people of all ages. In a fascinating departure from our investigative episodes of the We Said No podcast series, we’ll talk to people who have a wealth of stories and experiences about the park. Th...
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Episode 6
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19:50
Protest!
On Friday 20th August more that 1,000 people gathered together on Rimrose Valley to make their views known and to hear from speakers that included local MPs and Councillors, national environmental groups and transport campaigners. W...
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Episode 5
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51:19
Episode 4: Air Pollution - The Invisible Killer
It is estimated that air pollution kills up to 40,000 people each year in the UK alone. But what does this shocking statistic have to do with Highways England’s proposed road through Rimrose Valley? In this episode we pick our way throu...
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Episode 4
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30:17
Peel Ports in the dock
The controversial road proposal covered in this podcast series is called the Port of Liverpool Access Scheme and yet, whilst the port’s owners, Peel Ports, are regularly in the news cheering the expansion of their operations, you won’t hear the...
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Episode 3
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28:12
An impossible choice?
In Episode Two, we hear how a small, but committed team of people, determined to stop a road being built through their local country park, soon come to realise that this is part of a much bigger problem. They learn about the wider environmental...
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Episode 2
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34:46
Rimrose Valley - The beginnings of change
In episode 1, we learn about the origins and the history of Rimrose Valley and its creation. And how the plans by Highways England, the Government's own road building company, affected the communities that surrounded it. A community that relied...
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Episode 2
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