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Flagship £12.5m care scheme set to finally open next month A LONG-DELAYED flagship £12.5million extra-care housing scheme for the elderly is now set to welcome residents within weeks. The problem-plagued canalside redevelopment of Albion Mill in Ewood, Blackburn, has been hit by coronavirus and its main contractor going into administration in December 2019. The project s original start date in 2014 was delayed and its opening, originally scheduled for August 2018, has been delayed twice after work was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now Blackburn with Darwen Council s adult social care boss Cllr Mustafa Desai has revealed it will open by the end of next month. ....
Famed Cape Town architect Louis Karol dies at 93 iol.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iol.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Blackburn with Darwen: £68,500 in social cohesion grants awarded lancashiretelegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancashiretelegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Read Mills development - Credit: Archant Apartments where residents could face huge bills for fire safety work did not meet building regulations when they were constructed - despite being signed off by inspectors. The Read Mills development on King Street was finished in 2007 by developer PJ Livesey. At the time they were signed off by an inspector on behalf of Norwich City Council as meeting building regulations. But in March the five apartment blocks, in which scores of people live, were surveyed at a cost of £60,000 to find out what work needed doing to meet the latest fire safety guidance, brought in after the Grenfell tragedy. ....
I am indebted to Alan Young for a number of the images in these articles about the Micklehurst Loop. This is his drawing of the Loop which appears at the head of his article about the Loop on the Disused Stations website. It is used with his kind permission, (c) Alan Young. [7] During January 2021, my wife and I walked the majority of the length of the Micklehurst Loop from Stalybridge to Diggle. This was the goods relieving line for the main Stalybridge to Huddersfield railway line. It had been hoped to alleviate congestion by making the mainline into a 4-track railway but the geography mitigated against this and a route on the other side of the Tame Valley was chosen instead. ....