A developer trying to bring 52 homes to a former cotton mill site has been told to go back to the drawing board.
Burnley Council refused a scheme by Mr M Payne for the former Walshaw Mill site on Talbot Street in Briercliffe, with one councillor labelling the scheme a ‘complete non-runner’. The application was a resubmission of a proposal for the demolition of the old cotton mill buildings that was refused by the council under delegated powers in May 2020. The proposals were for 34 three bedroom townhouses, 14 three bedroom semi-detached houses and two four bedroom houses. The majority of councillors voted against it followed the officer’s recommendation as it ‘would result in a degree of harm to the significance of the Harle Syke Conservation Area’.
New Black Bull Pub A FORMER pub which dates back to the early 1800s is set to be transformed into flats.
Burnley Council’s development control committee voted in favour of the scheme for five new flats at the New Black Bull on Mill Street in Padiham on Thursday night. Brian Sumners of Avalon Planning who are the agents for the application on behalf of Hodgson Property Group spoke about how their clients had already spent money on the building. He said: “We went to survey the site back in the summertime and I can tell you the building was in a very dilapidated state where it has been vacant for coming up to eight years now.