New appeal over controversial Whitebirk Retail Park expansion (From Blackburn Citizen)
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New appeal over controversial Whitebirk Retail Park expansion
2:00pm Friday 23rd November 2012 in News
PEEL HOLDINGS are to make another legal bid to overturn a ban on the expansion of Whitebirk Retail Park despite losing a High Court case last month.
The judicial review of Hyndburn council’s refusal to allow the controversial out-of-town to attract new, larger stores was rejected by a judge in Manchester.
Now Peel are to go to the Court of Appeal in London to try and reverse the decision.
A company spokeswoman said last night: “We have fully considered the High Court judgement and the reasons for dismissal. After reviewing the case with our legal team we have decided to appeal against the High Court’s judgement. We believe our case to be fully in line with all relevant case law and the decision of the High Court to be legally flawed.
“Our proposals for Whitebirk Retail Park would deliver a much needed local alternative to modern retail parks in Preston and Bolton, create at least 250 additional jobs in Hyndburn and unlock well over £16million of investment.”
Hyndburn borough leader Miles Parkinson said: “We will continue to defend our position as upheld by the High Court judge in Manchester and hope that the Court of Appeal reaches the same result.”
Blackburn MP Straw said: “This is a last ditch attempt by Peel. Hyndburn council has my full backing. I hope that the judgement in Manchester will be upheld.”
Comments(18)
paperboy70
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3:10pm Fri 23 Nov 12
ghost of sceptic
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3:44pm Fri 23 Nov 12
mark lee
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4:26pm Fri 23 Nov 12
sonny
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4:30pm Fri 23 Nov 12
lcjfm03 wrote:What is it exactly that you have to travel to these places to purchase that cant be bought in or around Blackburn, Darwen, accy(or even more continently online!)?
What a farce. So we keep going to Preston, Bolton and Manchester then? When will they realise the horse has bolted, better to keep hold of whatever they can in the borough.
Also Preston and Bolton are only short drives drive from whiteberk retail park.
whiteberk retail park has become the dump that it is because of neglect from peel and other than curry's and pc world(which is owned by curry's!) none of the other stores get any substantial business, curry's/pc world should re-locate to new premises in a busy part of town(closer to the centre where the newer retail parks are) and the whitberk site should be flattened.
sonny
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4:30pm Fri 23 Nov 12
lcjfm03 wrote:What is it exactly that you have to travel to these places to purchase that cant be bought in or around Blackburn, Darwen, accy(or even more continently online!)?
What a farce. So we keep going to Preston, Bolton and Manchester then? When will they realise the horse has bolted, better to keep hold of whatever they can in the borough.
Also Preston and Bolton are only short drives drive from whiteberk retail park.
whiteberk retail park has become the dump that it is because of neglect from peel and other than curry's and pc world(which is owned by curry's!) none of the other stores get any substantial business, curry's/pc world should re-locate to new premises in a busy part of town(closer to the centre where the newer retail parks are) and the whitberk site should be flattened.
sonny
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4:39pm Fri 23 Nov 12
mark lee wrote:What residents? the parks virtually in the middle of nowhere, only little harwood and whitberk are in walking distance and even then you have to cross the busy dual carriage way, retail parks are not there for local residents there for people in cars/taxis.
Keep out of it Straw you don't live around here, the majority of residents that do live around her want a retail park
sonny
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4:52pm Fri 23 Nov 12
i thin hyndburn council should also be suing them for letting the retail park become the rotten corpse that it is.
mavrick
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5:39pm Fri 23 Nov 12
sonny wrote:Peel have deliberately run this park into the ground, If they were to get the planning consent they want, I wonder what would be put there? Food retail is the only thing that is not allowed on the park. The more you see this behaviour the more you realise it stinks. If David Cameron gets his way on changing planning laws, Then councils could not defend their position and we would be at the mercy of the greed developers.
Unless Peel can offer something new that isn't already available in or around east lancs they should be told to clear off(again!),
i thin hyndburn council should also be suing them for letting the retail park become the rotten corpse that it is.
modan
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6:42pm Fri 23 Nov 12
liddle 'un
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6:47pm Fri 23 Nov 12
Davelyn
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6:52pm Fri 23 Nov 12
mark lee
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7:10pm Fri 23 Nov 12
saker
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9:19pm Fri 23 Nov 12
sonny
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9:49pm Fri 23 Nov 12
mark lee wrote:there's nothing on the whitberk site now or potentially in the future that cant already be found "within a 5 mile" radius of whitberk!
I am talking about a a five mile radius sunny boy nearer to here than Preston not over 100 miles away like straw
does it not bother you that these dull ugly generic out of town retail parks only actually employ a relatively small amount of employees and put many many town centre stores/cafes/ect.. that employ 1000s and bring £millions into the town out of business.
paperboy70
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2:25pm Sat 24 Nov 12
sonny
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5:10pm Sat 24 Nov 12
A Darener
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10:05am Sun 25 Nov 12
lcjfm03 says...
2:44pm Fri 23 Nov 12