Accrington revamp scheme go-ahead

12:30pm Thursday 28th August 2008

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PLANS to transform a main road into Accrington have been approved.

The proposals to develop land bordered by Leyland Street, Blackburn Road, Barlow Street and Grimshaw Street with new homes, shop frontages and tree-lined streets were welcomed yesterday by Hyndburn planning councillors.

Plans form phase two of the Phoenix Project, aimed at revamping key parts of the town with homes, shops, car parking and landscaped public spaces.

Council leader Peter Britcliffe said: “It’s an important key to the regeneration of West Accrington.

“There has been so much progress already along the Blackburn Road corridor and the process needs to continue until it has been transformed as it needs to be.”

The application was for between 140 and 170 new homes in the area, where many existing terraces have been demolished.

Planners say the new houses will be a mixture of one to five-bedroomed homes, ranging from town house to apartments and bungalows and with specialist homes for the elderly and disabled.

The proposal also pledges to create large amounts of landscaped public space.

The plans, which are a follow-on to the nearby bungalows and new health centre developed under Phoenix Phase I, will also affect Porter Street, Holland Street, Poland Street and parts of Lower Antley Street.