REACT: New site to bring jobs back to Ulverston PLANS to build a £350m bio-manufacturing plant to produce modern medicines has taken a major step forward much to the delight of the community. Lakes BioScience, formed from a team of UK industry experts, has been granted planning permission to start work on the site at Ulverston. This will generate 250 high-value, high-tech jobs at a state-of-the-art factory producing monoclonal antibodies. Dan Ladden said: Good luck to them. I hope they can recruit locally. Ian Betty said: Great news, well done SLDC for not holding things up and sending out a positive message. Thanks to Lakes Bio Science for having confidence in our area. Thanks to GSK for the land. Not just jobs, it’s the status of them. If they are hard to get its encouragement for young people to get educated and stay in the area. It’s a win win, if locals can’t take them up then it will attract well qualified people to the area.”