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Gayle · 20-10-2006, 11:41

'Spice' project tried to find a site in East Lancashire and they looked at a couple of sites in Hyndburn, Burnley and Blackburn. They were putting together a £20m lottery bid to finance it and they had to have a fixed site to put the bid in.

Hyndburn said they had no room for it, Burnley wasn't ready to start work on the rest of the surrounding area around the site they wanted and Blackburn offered them a site - no surprise that the bid was being prepared with a Blackburn site in mind then. On the eleventh hour the Councillors in Blackburn changed their minds and told the project managers that they wouldn't be allowing them to use that site. The project managers put the bid in to the lottery anyway but of course they didn't get the funding because they didn't have a site.

The article the other day was a bit of a non-article i.e. we haven't given up hope but we haven't got a site or money so nothing's happening at the moment!

As for the racecourse - from what I understand that involves joint working between Hyndburn and Ribble Valley at the moment - nuff said!

20-10-2006, 11:41	#11
Gayle God Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Relaxville Posts: 6,866 Blog Entries: 69 Liked: 13 times Rep Power: 2867	Re: An Eden Project in Lancashire? 'Spice' project tried to find a site in East Lancashire and they looked at a couple of sites in Hyndburn, Burnley and Blackburn. They were putting together a £20m lottery bid to finance it and they had to have a fixed site to put the bid in. Hyndburn said they had no room for it, Burnley wasn't ready to start work on the rest of the surrounding area around the site they wanted and Blackburn offered them a site - no surprise that the bid was being prepared with a Blackburn site in mind then. On the eleventh hour the Councillors in Blackburn changed their minds and told the project managers that they wouldn't be allowing them to use that site. The project managers put the bid in to the lottery anyway but of course they didn't get the funding because they didn't have a site. The article the other day was a bit of a non-article i.e. we haven't given up hope but we haven't got a site or money so nothing's happening at the moment! As for the racecourse - from what I understand that involves joint working between Hyndburn and Ribble Valley at the moment - nuff said! __________________ The views expressed within this post are mine and mine alone.