Building work under one of the railway arches
 

It must be a while since any building work took place IN one of the railway arches in Accrington. Remember the old buildings that were "un-earthed" when the Bull Bridge area was given a makeover c1986?

If you walk along Blackburn Road towards the arches (pass Edgar St) and there, just after the back alley, is where they are working. One of the builders said it was gonna be offices?

Will post a few photos.

Building work under one of the railway arches
 

Here are a few photos. Hope you can visualize where I mean.

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whats the point when there is a whole estate of offices next to the Rising bridge( OK, Spice room) that have never had a single occupant...

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We spotted this a few weeks ago and wondered what they were going to be building.

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Totally agree with this, I drove past the other day and asked me Mum whether anyone actually works in any of them.

Who's bought these under the arches and paying for the offices to be built?

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Aren't the arches Grade II listed? Do they have the appropriate premissions?

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LCC are moving some staff into Rising Bridge following the closure of the Globe Centre following the decision to let BT have use of The Globe Centre

LCC have spent the last 5 years closing offices throughout East Lancs and centralising services in the Globe however they are now faced with finding accommodation for many staff who only moved in with the last few months claim there will 300 new jobs coming to the Town but I recall Tescomade similar claims lets see what happens

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All very strange, they were talking about getting rid of dangerous businesses from under railway arches, scrap yards and so on, Rising Bridge is nothing short of a scandal

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Is it this one ?
http://planning.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/WA...df&pageCount=1

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you would think for official documents they could be filled in by someone who didnt write like a chimp with chillie powder on its butthole weaing a blindfold :confused:

may hand writings bad but jesus i couldnt make half of that out

could easily fill that form in on one of those expensive computers thay have and print it off

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That application is thirty years old.

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lol that explains a few things

thought it was the more recent application although i did give up trying to read it pretty quickly lol :)

mind you its still god awfull handwriting for an official document

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Isn't the new Bus Station going in around that area?

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In that case maybe they are building a new office for the White Elephant keeper :rolleyes:

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i have news about that ... supposedly the 4 offices on the back ie facing rising bridge road have been taken and alterations being made ... the occupant - Lancashire county council .... the globe centre been sold to bt and they have to move out ... the education offices are moving into them ...