Peel House belongs to Lancashire County Council.
Hyndburn BC wanted to buy it to turn into a car park for the Civic Theatre. A wonderful idea I here you all say. Well yes it would be good not only for visitors to the Theatre but also local residents who have the problems caused by parking during shows etc at the Theatre.
Unfortunately Lancashire County Council refused to accept Hyndburns bid saying it was not enough money. Lancashire could have sold it to HBC for the good of Oswaldtwistle at a reduced price so we could have had a car park, and got rid of an eye sore at the same time. LCC were more interested in making some money than helping us Council Tax payers out, the majority of the tax actually goes to Lancashire anyway.
I would like to thank Lancashire County Council for being the caring Council they like to tell us on all those "welcome to Lancashire" signs we see.
I would also like to thank our County Councillor for Oswaldtwistle for assisting HBC and making sure we got the site
(Maybe someting to do with HBC being Tory run and the County Councillor being Labour. Or maybe she just does not care about Ossy, after all she lives in Clayton-le-Moors so isn't even a gobbiner 
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