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Following the planning application in this weeks observer, we now know what could happen to the peel court land.
from the application " Erection of 17 terraced houses, 2 apartments and sub-station"
It does say that the proposed development does not accord with the provisions of the development plan in force in the area in which the application site is located.

Strange the advert also gives details of the proposed application for the "Land rear Scaitcliffe House Ormerod st Accy." and also indicates that this application does not accord with the provisions of the development plan in force in the area in which the application site is located.
Page 36 bottom left hand corner (Observer)

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I've just got a call off mthead to ask if there's any posts on accyweb about Peel Court going up in flames again tonight ....... :rolleyes: or that's what he said he was ringing for .... I know the real reason. to tease me that Ossy is full of firemen and I can't go for a look http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/lynx/pinkcry.gif

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The fire happened on Monday night apparently, and was still smouldering on Tuesday morning.

I was looking forward to reading about what happened in this week's Observer, but not a word.

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There was a fire last night, but i don't know if its the same place (old folks home) across from the Foxhill Tavern. Apparently somebody had tried to set it alight. 2 fire engines and a police car.

Looks as though it was busy generally yesterday, I got a visit from the police yesterday evening, because during the day whilst at work, some bastard decided to have a go at my car, (snapped one of the wippers off, bent my ariel, and twisted my passenger side wing mirror round), I reported it when I got home. My car incidently was parked on the top floor of the Arndale!

The policeman that came to see me had just been chasing some youths and confiscated some alcohol, on him leaving me he was after a disqualified driver that went past us, then later on in the evening up Union Road he was seen again 'chatting' with some youths and more alcohol was confiscated. Never a dull moment eh?

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I always suspected you were an arsenist.

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I still think HBC's idea was the best one. MAke it a car park for the Civic Theatre. It's a shame LLC would not sell it to HBC for what they were offering. Thanks LCC for helping us out.

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Yes there was another fire last night.It is just a matter of time until the bulldozer's move in

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Yes there have been two fires in the property over the last seven days and both are being treated as suspicious.

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Twiddles mustache.


We should look at who would benefit from it's destruction. Who is playing the Civic theatre in the coming months?


Wanted for questioning-
Big long haired bloke and a Welsh bird with a big hooter.

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Don't think it would be hard to find someone to set the fire for a few bob, look what the owner could gain if its insured, which I am sure it is.
Developer then sells land on at a profit once its cleared.:)

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What was strange about the early hours Tuesday Fire was that it was a well developed fire involving the first floor and roof, but all the ground floor windows and doors were boarded up and secure and no signs of a break in, so did the arsonist use a ladder or did he have a key mmmmmm? over to you Poroit.:confused:

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Anyone know if the plan got passed for new houses,seems to have gone rather quiet.

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As of 2011, no houses and apartments have been built on the site.

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The site is up for sale

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I spent the first 4 years of my life living in one of the 2 houses attached to Peel Court, my mum was a nurse there and my dad the deputy manager

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What year was Peel Court built?.

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I would guess at early 70's although I may be wrong

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They were houses before Peel Court, right?.

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We lived there from 1976

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No, the 2 houses were built at the same time and were built as staff houses as were the ones at Acorn Lodge and Hill Top :)

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Here is a view of how it used to be before Peel Court was built
http://lanternimages.lancashire.gov....44&r=2&t=4&x=1

from this site
Lancashire Lantern | Subjects | Item

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think twas late 60s? L.Frankland built it, n i made those big louvered doors yeh could see from union rd.

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I was not to far out with the guess then, Franklands built a lot of private housing as well did'nt they?

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Interesting photo margaret

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What year was that photograph taken Margaret?.

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yep they sure did, jaysay n meself worked fer em back then, had sites all oer lancs.;)

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According to that Lantern site - "1960s"

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my guess would be early 60s, not one car on union rd.:)

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I worked for Franklands in the early seventies, most of the work then was housing they had quite a few sites from Clitheroe, Todmorden Feniscowles Clayton-le-Woods, Oswaldtwistle, Blackburn, and a few more

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When did Franklands go bust???.

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Its a good few years ago.

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was december either 69/70, i was made redundant from yon. that was joiners shop up ossy, site work continued though.

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I was there till lat 69 cashy was okay then

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if thats case joiners shop went december 70. you weren't in joiners shop though mate.

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No but liaise with the shop foreman, John Terry (no not him from Chelski)every day and was actually in the workshop everyday too

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Shop foreman back then was the Late Arthur Mather n his brother Alan was foreman of the Concast.;)

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JT was the joinery foreman because I dealt with him every day, Arthur was over-all Foreman, I believe when I left JT went in the office and took over the job I was doing, he married Christine the office receptionist whilst I was there, sadly John Died a couple of years ago, in his younger days was a very good cricketer, played for Enfield in the Lancs League

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So why don't the council buy it and build a nice playground on it for the kids or open it as a youth club for all the kids in ossy so they don't have to trapse to New era. We often moan about kids hanging round but there is sod all for them to do in the area. Make the club a youth club with pool tables, WiFi, jukebox, big screen TV with MTV etc showing. a tuck shop for stuff to eat and drink so there IS somewhere for them to go of an evening.

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Don't they have a youth club on Harvey St ?

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Spot on Dave, it opened in the early 90s and is very well used, one has to wonder why Bee, (seeing he seems to have his antenna on the pulse) doesn't know about it already, it could be an idea if he went round there, and stopped annoying grown ups on here:rolleyes:

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There are a few places for kids to go stuff in Ossy, Harvey Street Youth Centre, The Civic Arts Centre, Global, Scouts, Guides etc and Rhyddings Park are just the first ones to come to my tiny mind. The MUGA in Rhyddings we built is very popular and the age range using it changes between end of school time and late evening. It's like they use it in shifts.

When Peel House was closed LCC said they would use the money from selling the homes they closed to help the old people that used to be in homes.

This was the reason given by our previous LCC Councillor as to why LCC could not give or sell cheap the land to HBC who wanted to make it into a car park

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As Neil said.

There's a fantastic playground five minutes away.

A well run youth club, also five minutes walk from the site.

There's also the Civic arts centre, with tons of activities for young people, within spitting distance.

There has never been as many things for youths to do in the town.

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Ya I agree G there's plenty for young people to do in Ossy yet as one member has illustrated by his inane rantings, some people are not satisfied;)

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I disagree about there being sufficient places for kids to go in Ossy and the rest of Hyndburn in General.

Kids are territorial and need things in there own area. Ossy alone could do with at least 3 more youth shelters. Then start looking at Hyndburn as a whole and we are very lacking in facilities.

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Compared with other areas Hyndburn doesn't do too bad as far as youth facility provision is concerned Neil, Mind you there are people who have put years into helping youngsters, a prime example is Brian Walmsley who was involved with working for young people long before he ever became a councillor and is still doing his bit today even now he's the wrong side of 70

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Sometimes we mollycoddle our young, and it leaves them lacking in initiative. As they expect everything given to them on a plate.

As stated earlier, young people have never had so many, easy accesible facilities.

As for 'youth shelters', in my day we built our own, and called them dens.

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Hasn't Global gone Neil?.

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Ya exactly, in those days you had to make your own entertainment, which we used to do without making it an inconvenience to the public, like vandalising parks etc. but we didn't have a nanny state in those days where most people have come to expect things doing for them as the norm, more so kids

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It says The Foxhill Pub (opposite the site) was going to be a youth group;
Booze-free pub plan for Oswaldtwistle teens (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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Thats over two years since, ya berk

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It's now reopened as a 'real' pub.

Thankfully.

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Have you ever wondered who's writting Bee's script:confused:;)

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Someone who's busy?

YouTube - ‪Arthur Askey - Busy Bee‬‏

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uuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhh hhhhhhh.

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Should that not be Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?:D

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Na cashy Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoff:D

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Shut up!

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Take yer own advice?:tongueout

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Hear Hear:D

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Delete these posts PLEEEEEEEEEEASE.

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If that was the case your post count would be at -10:rolleyes:

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Nothing much happened with this space for soooo long but guess what. Public consultation at the civic Ossy Town Hall in August for_

Wait for it!!!


Are you ready?


Yes!


A home for the elderly.:eek:

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That should be interesting, who and how much money has been made out of that site

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I don't know much about the consultation other than I was contacted by the architects who wanted to hire a room.

As far as I know the architects are based in Birmingham and are called M.E. Architects. The company that bought the land has three other care homes - in Rochdale, Bolton and Colne (from memory so not 100% sure I've got the locations right).

The consultation is 1st August, 6pm to 8pm.

On the one hand I think it will be a massive improvement on a blot on the landscape and will give a little boost to some shops around it as presumably there will be visitors coming and going. My only concern I guess, is where the car park entrance will be as it can't come out onto Union Rd because of the bus stop and traffic, if it was on Lord St it would seriously reduce the Civic's limited parking, Sun Street residents would probably complain if it was there and Haworth St already has congestion because of the school and health clinic.

I can't see it being refused permission though as it was a care home ten years ago.

PS - it's at the Civic Arts Centre - I hate to keep pointing this out but the Town Hall doesn't exist anymore.

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The old entrance was on Haworth street and is still there so that would be the obvious place for it. On Sun Street opposite Lock Street would also be ok.

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they may not build it in the old shape though Neil, my mum and dad worked there when i was little, we lived in one of the houses attached to the home, it all depends on which way round they build it

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Consultation tomorrow about the spare land next to the Civic. Call in tomorrow at 5.30pm to see the plans.

There is a picture in the boards outside the Civic. The layout is different but the car entrance is in the same place.