FACEBOOK COMMENTS
NEW bus lanes in Accrington, Burnley and Preston could cost you £60 (January 20):
David Isherwood: Yes let’s not drive into town or work either. The car park cameras/ bus lane cameras and traffic wardens are out in force. It’s a joke when your hard earned cash is being stolen from your pocket. More reason to shop elsewhere!
Darren Roberts: Just another scheme to rip people off.
Gary M Hough: “We’re happy if we don’t make a penny from the bus lanes”. So all of the money they do make then will be used to fill in the numerous pot holes I take it? Thought not.
COUNCIL statement as 250 woodland trees felled without permission (January 22):
Christine Britton: What the hell are they cutting them down for? They should be planting more trees. We need them to clean the air we breathe and without them we are dead!
DATE for final masterplan for 2,000 ‘concerning’ new homes in Huncoat (January
17):
Shirley Southward: We don’t want any more houses in Huncoat, it’s busy enough on our roads already. Which school do they think all the extra children are going to go to ? Huncoat is a tiny village school and Peel Park is always full every intake.
Alan Smithee: Homes = council tax, the plan will pass. What we need however is industry to support all these people before we build more homes. If you look around at the surrounding towns they are investing heavily in industrial parks but Hyndburn is too greedy to attract investment because it is not offering sufficient incentives. Anthony Perkins: Building more homes isn’t the answer, Hyndburn isn’t the jewel in the crown that it once was, all our great industries and we’ll known businesses are long gone, how about doing up what you have already got?
REVEALED: Radical plans to turn round Accrington’s market hall (January 17):
Ian Greenwood: It would be great to see Accrington market back to it’s full glory when all the stalls were full and selling great produce Tracy Landon: More parking will work on
Peel Street and adding some different food stalls e.g Thai/Vegan etc is a step in right direction too
TOWARDS the end of the “twenty tens” Hyndburn Council published its Strategy for Growth: “A Strategy for Growth, Efficiency and Quality 2018-2023.
As we enter the “twenty twenties” we enter an exciting period that will see the Council deliver on our ambitious plans for employment and housing growth.
These plans will be underpinned by the ongoing review of the Local Plan, which is due for completion in 2021 and will identify different growth sites across the borough up to 2036.
As well as seeking to ensure that sufficient housing is developed in the Borough, the Council’s planning policies also recognise the importance of developing employment land that will allow companies to move into Hyndburn or relocate from existing premises into modern buildings.
In December 2019 two planning applications were submitted for the development of almost 300,000 square feet of new employment floor space.
With the development of Frontier Park likely to be completed over the next few years it will be necessary for the Council to identify further land for future employment development in the Borough.
Just two weeks ago, Councillor Loraine Cox, Portfolio Holder for Housing and Regeneration, updated Cabinet on our exciting plans for Huncoat Garden Village.
The masterplan is due to be completed this summer, with work to date promoting a predominantly residential only village of up to 2,000 new homes with a new “Huncoat village centre,” providing new local facilities including local shops.
Over the next few months the masterplan will bring forward a planning framework including where new housing will be located.
It will also consider where future junior school provision will be located and the need for a new distributor road linking Huncoat directly with the A56.
In Rishton we are seeing very good progress with our housing growth plans, especially the brownfield sites adjacent to the LeedsLiverpool canal.
Late last year Gleeson Homes completed 75 new homes at the Parker Place development on the former Wheatfield Mill site, with the new homes providing to be very popular.
Just before Christmas, Watson homes submitted a major planning application that will see a further 59 new homes built along the canal side, on the former derelict
Britannia Mills site on Spring Street.
The Council’s Core Strategy is framed within the context of climate change and whilst it builds on the existing settlement pattern, recognising the importance of developing brownfield land and securing regeneration, it also recognises the importance of developing in highly accessible locations on the periphery, such as Huncoat.
Monitoring of housing development in Hyndburn indicates that the majority of new housing in the Borough has been developed on previously developed, brownfield, land.