Bill Jacobs

5 days ago | lancs.live | Bill Jacobs

Town hall officials are monitoring a plot of land in Darwen after fears were raised it is being developed for an unauthorised travellers’ camp. Nearby residents have alerted local councillors to their concerns and are proposing raise a petition on the issue. Now Blackburn with Darwen Council officials are monitoring work on the site in Pole Land which was granted planning permission for a new three-bedroom house in 2023.

5 days ago | lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | Bill Jacobs

2 1/1 Proposals to build 210 more new homes in Darwen have cleared their first planning hurdle. Reaper Ltd of Buckshaw Village in Chorley intends to construct the houses on either side of Marsh House Lane. It submitted a request for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening opinion for the scheme to Blackburn with Darwen Council in January. This is the first step before submitting a planning application for the development to the authority.

5 days ago | lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | Bill Jacobs

Darwen's Labour councillors will hold an advice surgery in the town's library on Saturday. The session at the Knott Street venue will take place from 10.30am to 11.30am. Darwen East ward's borough Cllrs Katrina Fielding, Martin McCaughran and Matt Gibson, Darwen West ward's Cllrs Brian Taylor, Dave Smith and Stephanie Brookfield and Darwen South ward's Cllrs Matt Jackson and Anthony Shaw will all be present.

6 days ago | lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | Bill Jacobs

King George's Hall Blackburn surrounded by hoardings (Image: NQ) Half of a Blackburn town centre car park is to be shut for the duration of the £9 million renovation of the historic King George's Hall. The chunk of the Barton Street car park will be used as a construction compound while the remainder of the upgrade works to the Grade-II heritage-listed entertainment venue are carried out. The revamp of the currently closed 104-year-old hall is scheduled to finish in 2026.

6 days ago | lancs.live | Bill Jacobs

Burnley’s full council will debate a call for the borough’s MP Oliver Ryan to quit Parliament over his comments in a WhatsApp group. The backbencher elected in July was suspended by the Labour Party in February over his participation in the digital chat over which Gorton and Denton MP Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the party at the weekend.