This is traditionally a time when we think about getting healthier and Hyndburn Leisure Centre is a great place to start. Memberships include gym, swimming, fitness classes and access to the brand new thermal suite. You can sign up to any membership for a year and get two months free.
We’re committed to helping people across Hyndburn get active and healthier, so we’re thrilled to be one of twelve areas awarded landmark National Lottery funding from Sport England recently to do just that. It means that over the coming years we can work together with our partners to help inspire people to become more active in new ways that suit them.
Highams Playing Fields in Accrington could be upgraded to offer an improved range of facilities for local people to take part in sport, after Accrington Stanley Community Trust approached the Council with a view to investing £2 million to upgrade community facilities there.
They are thinking of providing an enhanced range of facilities, including a full-size floodlit 3G artificial pitch, multiple junior and adult football pitches; a rugby pitch; an artificial cricket wicket and brand new changing rooms.
The project received planning permission from the Council’s Planning Committee in December so the Trust can now talk to the funders about how the project will be implemented.
Rishton footballers are looking forward to playing on a refurbished facility at Norden Playing fields later this year, after Rishton United recently signed a 25 years lease there. They’ve secured external funding to carry out the first phase of their project, which will level and fence the site and improve drainage.
There are also lots of new exciting developments in the pipeline. Keepmoat Homes have completed the acquisition of the former Lyndon Playing Fields and work on the new prestigious Lyndon Park housing development will start immediately this year. This circa £45 million pound development will see 217 new houses and bungalows built in a fabulous setting. Even before work has started Keepmoat report that interest is very high.
As part of the planning gain from the new Lyndon Park housing development, Great Harwood Rovers Football Club have moved to new football pitches just off Harwood Lane. Over half a million pounds is being invested in new facilities with phase one of the project complete. Phase two, new changing facilities, will be constructed later this year.
At Whitebirk, Euro Garages has started work on the new Frontier Park development on 85 acres of land right next to Junction 6 of the M65. The development will be a mix of employment and leisure uses creating 2,000 new local jobs and a major boost for the local economy.
And finally, Accrington’s new Town Square, funded by the Townscape Heritage Initiative, is looking marvellous now and we’re really pleased with its progress. We’re looking forward to seeing it finished and Cllr Clare Cleary, Cabinet Member Accrington Town Centre, has been working hard with officers and all town centre stakeholders to bring events to the square to promote the town to shoppers and visitors when it’s open in the summer.
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