A developer trying to bring 52 homes to a former cotton mill site has been told to go back to the drawing board. Burnley Council refused a scheme by Mr M Payne for the former Walshaw Mill site on Talbot Street in Briercliffe, with one councillor labelling the scheme a ‘complete non-runner’. The application was a resubmission of a proposal for the demolition of the old cotton mill buildings that was refused by the council under delegated powers in May 2020. The proposals were for 34 three bedroom townhouses, 14 three bedroom semi-detached houses and two four bedroom houses. The majority of councillors voted against it followed the officer’s recommendation as it ‘would result in a degree of harm to the significance of the Harle Syke Conservation Area’.