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A WILDLIFE haven close to a major new housing estate has been designated an Asset of Community Value giving local residents priority to bid for it if threatened by development. The public open space off Kingsley Close in Feniscowles, Blackburn, is next to a 450 homes scheme being built by Blackburn Waterside Regeneration Ltd on the former Sappi Paper Mill site in Livesey Branch Road. Neighbours became concerned for its future after several trees were felled close to the Leeds/Liverpool canal despite a condition on the planning approval protecting the land. They turned to Livesey Parish Council for help and now Blackburn with Darwen Council has approved its application to make it an Asset of Community value.
Campaigners rallying to save the old Winchester Tavern in 2019
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A former Highgate pub long under threat of development has been relisted as an asset of community value (ACV).
The Winchester Tavern, in Archway Road, has been subject of numerous planning applications to turn the pub into flats – which neighbours have defied.
Locals now hope the renewal of its status as an ACV – which formally recognises its social value to the area in planning terms – could see the pub, closed since 2016, restored as a free house.
Cllr Liz Morris (Lib Dem, Highgate), who has ardently campaigned against the housing proposals, said: “It is fantastic news that the Winchester Tavern has been relisted as an Asset of Community Value. It will give this building the added protection it deserves.