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Originally Posted by Graham Jones

With refurbs most work will be done by local tradespeople. If the refurb programme had been rolled out whilst we had a chronic shortage of tradespeople the outcome would have been predictable and expensive. So part of this regen scheme is to put in place tradespeople who can soak up the demand that will surge. Not only that in reverse is gives us the chance to create proper jobs for local people on decent wages instead of the money going to out of town companies. Of course training takes a few years to come through.

That's a good one graham, work for local people that's nice. But I would not think so, I don't think hyndburn has more than two or three companies that could handle that scale of work, are we not talking, Project Management, CDM Regulations etc, etc. Was there not major refurbs on council houses years ago, were local contractors involved then.........NO they were major league contractors, reason because they are the only ones that have the backup and staff to cope with such a programme. After building on a small site Barrett must be in the running for a major project..........On a plate so to speak