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Kwik Save sale could help regenerate Burnley area

10:00am Saturday 13th March 2010 in


BURNLEY Council is marketing a former Kwik Save store in a bid to regenerate one of the town’s most deprived areas.

The Accrington Road site has been empty for more than two years and has become a magnet for yobs.

Three property developers have now come forward to express ‘serious’ interest in purchasing the site.

It was bought by the council last month as part of a regeneration scheme to improve the run-down Accrington Road ‘corridor’.

The site was placed on the council’s ‘hall of shame’ hitlist by council bosses last month due.

Coun Lynne Briggs, who represents the Rosegrove with Lowerhouse ward, said: “It is very good news for the area and it will hopefully result in a decline in anti-social behaviour.

“I am not sure of the developer’s intentions for the building but we all hope they improve the property which would have a positive effect on the whole area.

“Anything that brightens up a derelict property is always good news and this is news which I welcome.”

The site is close to the brewery Moorhouses, which is currently under-going a £4m makeover.

A council spokesman said: “We are unable to go into details regarding the three parties but we have received three serious expressions of interest.

“Burnley Council is now pursuing each one of them to see which proposal is most suitable.”

Nolan Redshaw, specialist commer-cial property consultancy, is overseeing the sale.

Nobody from the firm was available for comment yesterday.

Comments(12)

burner says...
10:07am Sat 13 Mar 10

You don't have yobs in the Ribble Valley, do you, Davidoff? Gosh, "No!".

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ABBEY ROAD says...
12:39pm Sat 13 Mar 10

Again another piece of Election hype which is aimed at getting votes. What's the sudden interest? How come the 3 companies were not interested in the land before?

Is the interest because Liberal Gordon is going to lease it out for a 'peppercorn rent'? Bet they don't pay market price!

These businesses are just sitting back and waiting for Gordon to buy up the land at above the market price and then lease the land off at cheap rates. Yet again Grodon's showing his lack of business acumen and heading to bankrupt a Burnley.

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MerlinTheVoiceofReason says...
4:55pm Sat 13 Mar 10

ABBEY ROAD wrote:
Again another piece of Election hype which is aimed at getting votes. What's the sudden interest? How come the 3 companies were not interested in the land before?

Is the interest because Liberal Gordon is going to lease it out for a 'peppercorn rent'? Bet they don't pay market price!

These businesses are just sitting back and waiting for Gordon to buy up the land at above the market price and then lease the land off at cheap rates. Yet again Grodon's showing his lack of business acumen and heading to bankrupt a Burnley.
And which political party do you represent?

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Burnley Lad says...
5:07pm Sat 13 Mar 10

Merlin I think the issue here for me is that yet again in Burnley another example of high above the market price being paid for land and property in the area with no real thought into long term strategy for the area. Buying buildings like the Mitre and yet no thoughts about what they are actually going to do with it. No wonder people are getting fed up as they want to see something happening which is permanent and not just a business which is only going to be there for a few years.

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pez63 says...
8:43pm Sat 13 Mar 10

This is Burnley they are talking about,and in Burnley they breed with there own breed before being allowed to make decisions.How do the public of burnley know that the people making these decisions for them are well inter-breed dingles from yorkshire or impostors from england with condoms on.As a bus driver i think the best job they can do in burnley,is paint all the bus shelters individual colours as no body as ever got on my bus in burnley that understands numbers or knows where there going.

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pez63 says...
8:43pm Sat 13 Mar 10

This is Burnley they are talking about,and in Burnley they breed with there own breed before being allowed to make decisions.How do the public of burnley know that the people making these decisions for them are well inter-breed dingles from yorkshire or impostors from england with condoms on.As a bus driver i think the best job they can do in burnley,is paint all the bus shelters individual colours as no body as ever got on my bus in burnley that understands numbers or knows where there going.

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pez63 says...
8:43pm Sat 13 Mar 10

This is Burnley they are talking about,and in Burnley they breed with there own breed before being allowed to make decisions.How do the public of burnley know that the people making these decisions for them are well inter-breed dingles from yorkshire or impostors from england with condoms on.As a bus driver i think the best job they can do in burnley,is paint all the bus shelters individual colours as no body as ever got on my bus in burnley that understands numbers or knows where there going.

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DaveBurnley says...
9:20am Sun 14 Mar 10

Posting the same tripe 3 times doesn't mean it will actually make sense pez. Or did you find it difficult counting how many times you had hit the 'submit' button?

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pez63 says...
11:06am Sun 14 Mar 10

No had a fewww.

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Cool Lad says...
11:59am Sun 14 Mar 10

pez63 wrote:
No had a fewww.
The inbred folk in Blackburn have bad eye sight as this muppet has clearly shown us!

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bankhall says...
1:31am Mon 15 Mar 10

you couldn't make this total cr@p up really.When it was a cheap tacky supermarket it didn't regenerate accy rd so why would it now bizarre

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bankhall says...
1:31am Mon 15 Mar 10

you couldn't make this total cr@p up really.When it was a cheap tacky supermarket it didn't regenerate accy rd so why would it now bizarre

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