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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Anyway, even it was to go ahead, where the hell are they getting the figure of 4000 from?
I can't exactly see many manufacturing facilities there, employing rows and rows of women to stick togeather computer parts. Whitebirk used to have that (think of Mullards) but these days that's all done in China. The sums just don't add up.
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That's precisely the question I've been asking. The last time I heard, it was an estimate just shy of 450 jobs.
Blackburn can't even fill up the units it already has so the interest in getting control of Hyndburn land sounds like empire-building rather than a desire to create jobs. Improvements to existing industrial areas might be better and if they're keen on Rishton then we have a large derelict industrial complex at the other end of the village that they're welcome to regenerate.
However, they still have the small matter of the M65 to consider.