New railway station for Burnley moves step closer - Business News

Sponsored by

New railway station for Burnley moves step closer

Published on 13/04/2012 15:23

Plans to regenerate Burnley’s Manchester Road railway station have taken another major step forward.

Burnley Council’s Executive Committee has agreed a series of steps to progress the £1.8m. transformation of the station which forms part of wider plans to improve rail links to and from Manchester.

Councillors agreed to release funding for the project, gave the go-ahead to appoint contractors and authorised the council’s legal team to agree terms for the future management of the station.

Work is set to start late summer and be completed early next year.

A planning application to redevelop the station was agreed by the council last month. Plans include a new entrance, refurbishment of the existing station building, new passenger shelters and ticket machines, and extended car parking.

Mike Cook, the council’s director of economic regeneration, said: “Manchester Road station is a major gateway and its redevelopment will help promote a positive image of Burnley as well as benefiting the rail travellers that use it day in, day out.

“The station’s regeneration fits in with wider plans to redevelop the nearby Weavers’ Triangle and with moves to reinstate the Todmorden Curve and forge stronger and quicker rail links to Manchester. We expect the station to become busier in coming years and this work will provide a top quality station that will meet that demand.”

The cost of the project is being met through funding from the European Union, Lancashire County Council, Network Rail and Burnley Council.

Burnley Council is working in partnership with LCC, Network Rail and train operator Northern Rail on the scheme.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by
New railway station for Burnley moves step closer

Top stories

News

Business News