Telegrapgh Headline - 4000 New Jobs In Hyndburn

[lancsdave]

Thats what the headline says outside the newsagents.

Am I to assume it's 3,999 planners for the town centre and one bloke with a shovel ?

[shillelagh]

wrong dave ..

A NEW ‘high-tech’ business park employing 4,000 people is set to be built beside the M65.
Regeneration leaders want to turn greenfield land on the Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn border, next to junction six of the M65, into a £5million industrial hub occupied by advanced manufacturing firms.
They hope the site, to be built over five years, will attract blue-chip employers to East Lancashire and create 4,000 quality jobs.
The plan, which will be partly bankrolled with public money, has been backed by business leaders.
Bosses from Regenerate Pennine Lancashire, the publicly-funded body made up of councillors and town hall officers, want the sprawling business park to go on the area between Accrington Road, Whitebirk Road and the M65 eastbound exit slip-road.

High-tech East Lancs business park plans unveiled (From Lancashire Telegraph)

well i always thought greenfield sites were supposed to stay green ..

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

wrong dave ..

A NEW ‘high-tech’ business park employing 4,000 people is set to be built beside the M65.
Regeneration leaders want to turn greenfield land on the Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn border, next to junction six of the M65, into a £5million industrial hub occupied by advanced manufacturing firms.
They hope the site, to be built over five years, will attract blue-chip employers to East Lancashire and create 4,000 quality jobs.
The plan, which will be partly bankrolled with public money, has been backed by business leaders.
Bosses from Regenerate Pennine Lancashire, the publicly-funded body made up of councillors and town hall officers, want the sprawling business park to go on the area between Accrington Road, Whitebirk Road and the M65 eastbound exit slip-road.

High-tech East Lancs business park plans unveiled (From Lancashire Telegraph)

well i always thought greenfield sites were supposed to stay green ..

It's only in the planning stage yet then, could end up anywhere north of Watford

[Benipete]

Sounds like a lot of money for a chip shop whatever the colour.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

well i always thought greenfield sites were supposed to stay green ..

We are not exactly short of green bits around here are we.
We however short of jobs so it sounds good to me.

[Tealeaf]

Whatever happened to the 'green' industrial park that was supposed to be being built by Foxhill Bank?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Whatever happened to the 'green' industrial park that was supposed to be being built by Foxhill Bank?

Probably went "Tits up"like the "Zeri" complex.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by cashman

Probably went "Tits up"like the "Zeri" complex.

What's the odds then this will go the same way? Anyway, even it was to go ahead, where the hell are they getting the figure of 4000 from? We will probably find that what goes up will be distribution depots for the likes of Tesco and ASDA; fully automated storage systems with the only employees being a few office staff and drivers who in any case will come from all over the country.

I can't exactly see many manufacturing facilities there, employing rows and rows of women to stick togeather computer parts. Whitebirk used to have that (think of Mullards) but these days that's all done in China. The sums just don't add up.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

What's the odds then this will go the same way? Anyway, even it was to go ahead, where the hell are they getting the figure of 4000 from? We will probably find that what goes up will be distribution depots for the likes of Tesco and ASDA; fully automated storage systems with the only employees being a few office staff and drivers who in any case will come from all over the country.

I can't exactly see many manufacturing facilities there, employing rows and rows of women to stick togeather computer parts. Whitebirk used to have that (think of Mullards) but these days that's all done in China. The sums just don't add up.

Agree but they say- God loves a tryer.

[Tealeaf]

The location certainly makes a good transpotation hub, with it's proximity to the M65, so I can understand that part. Some of the warehouses they stick up these days are the size of Wembley Stadium. Maybe if they build one on spec, rather than to order, we could stick a football pitch and some seats in there and Stanley could relocate to play games on nights such as this.

By the way, I'm hoping to get up there tomorrow...what's the weather like now?

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

By the way, I'm hoping to get up there tomorrow...what's the weather like now?

We have 6' snow drifts, better stop where you are


We had a bit of snow but its nothing.

[steeljack]

seem to remember hearing/reading a while ago that all the area west of the old Whitebirk power station and south of the old Gt. Harwood railway line , west as far a Whilpshire rd (New Inns) and Blackburn Rd as the southern boundary had been included in a study for possible change of use and future industrial expansion
maybe accy web user Ken Moss (Rishton) has a comment

[Less]

Not wishing to sound pessimistic, (for a change), but what do you reckon are the chances that IF this goes ahead, we will attract 'real' businesses?

Express gifts was supposed to give us 'real' jobs got plenty of grants and runs on a skeleton permanent staff with temporary workers doing the bulk of the work ready to be laid off at a moments notice.
In fact the temp's got hit on the head so many times with the brown stuff, I believe the only way they can get staff is to import Poles and others that didn't make the grade as plumbers to fill these lucrative positions.

What's the chances that we end up attracting the very last of the cigarette makers to put a state of the art production line in and get it up and running the day before a surprise Government announcement that production of all tobacco products is made illegal.

Or perhaps a really large canning factory just as the do-gooders finally bully Supermarkets into banning the sales of all alcoholic products from their shelves.

I really do hope this isn't another 'pie in the sky', dreamsville idea and at last we get some decent companies, (Engineering would be nice, get a few apprenticeships going), I don't think I'll hold my breath though.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

Or perhaps a really large canning factory

The man from Del Monte say's 'Where is dis white berk Hind born?'

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by steeljack

seem to remember hearing/reading a while ago that all the area west of the old Whitebirk power station and south of the old Gt. Harwood railway line , west as far a Whilpshire rd (New Inns) and Blackburn Rd as the southern boundary had been included in a study for possible change of use and future industrial expansion
maybe accy web user Ken Moss (Rishton) has a comment

It's a sore point in Rishton as it is perceived as further crepitation of the Blackburn boundary into Hyndburn. The green land provides an attractive buffer zone that residents are not keen to see filled up with more industrial units when there are plenty of empty units elsewhere. Also, the money generated from changing the use of the land is not guaranteed to be used to improve Rishton facilities as it should be, by rights.

As it stands, the M65 infrastructure is deemed unfit and requires a third lane to be constructed. Technically, until that happens there will be no development of land at junction 6 although I remain unconvinced that this will stop them. We have been told categorically at a public meeting that no amount of complaining from the residents could halt the project.