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- noel - 04-Sep-2008
That's the area Frank, where the old LM test track used to be. The former Spurrier Works is now a developing industrial estate, some of the original buildings are still standing but a number of new modern style units have also been built. The recycling units have been located as close as they possibly could to Bispham Avenue without actually being located in the River Lostock.
- JDH - 04-Sep-2008
Maybe it was this building work that has just polluted the River Lostock then?
The total and utter disregard that SRBC has had for the local residents affected by this has been truely disgusting.
- noel - 04-Sep-2008
SRBC tried to get planning overturned, unsuccesfully. Lancashire County Council are the ones who should be ashamed of themselves. But of course they aren't.
- jordanh14 - 07-Sep-2008
I remember hearing about a year or so ago that the Flensburg Way link (via Leyland Motors) couldn't be used because the Motors said they wouldn't let the HGVs through.
- noel - 07-Sep-2008
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Originally posted by jordanh14
I remember hearing about a year or so ago that the Flensburg Way link (via Leyland Motors) couldn't be used because the Motors said they wouldn't let the HGVs through.
That'll be interesting because at the moment the entry is at the far end of the old Spurriers Works. I guess the traffic will be coming down Centurion Way then?
- jordanh14 - 08-Sep-2008
I think the extra traffic coming through Centurion Way was one of the main concerns for the residents wasn't it?
- noel - 08-Sep-2008
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Originally posted by jordanh14
I think the extra traffic coming through Centurion Way was one of the main concerns for the residents wasn't it?
Allegedly 400 wagons a day, no wonder they are concerned, unlike Lancashire County Council.
- JDH - 03-Oct-2008
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Originally posted by noel
SRBC tried to get planning overturned, unsuccesfully. Lancashire County Council are the ones who should be ashamed of themselves. But of course they aren't.
I stand humbly corrected!
I do wonder how many brown envelopes were passed around LCC to get where we are now?
- noel - 03-Oct-2008
I don't know JDH but every time I go past the place I wonder how on earth anyone could pass the plans so close as it is to a residential area. If it were hidden, below the barrier that was built to protect the houses from the old test track it would be bad enough but it's humungous, towering over the top and only yards away from houses on Bispham Avenue.
- Martin - 06-Dec-2008
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Turbine plan scaled down
Leyland Guardian 05 December 2008
People power has brought about a partial victory for residents battling plans for six wind turbines on the site of the Farington Waste Technology plant.
Controversial proposals for a £120,000 scheme to put 15m high wind turbines as part of the education centre have now been approved.
However, after angry residents branded the scheme 'the straw that will break the camel's back', joint developers Lancashire County Council and Global Renewables have agreed to reduce the number of turbines to three.
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