Delayed bungalows approved after road row settled

A long-delayed sheltered estate of 35 bungalows is set to go ahead after a row over a legal agreement for road maintenance was settled.

Burnley Council approved the £3m scheme in February 2023, on the cleared site of the former Dexter Paints site on Gannow Lane, close to the Leeds Liverpool Canal.

It had insisted that the specialist construction firm behind it, J and P Nixon Builders, sign a legal agreement with Lancashire County Council over the future management and maintenance of the internal road layout.

Company boss John Nixon said that unless the condition was dropped the estate would never be built.

He had told councillors that he had a "passion" for constructing such estates for residents aged 55 and over, and already had 207 applications for the bungalows.

However, he said he preferred to keep the roads on his developments "private" so access to the public, including teenagers, was controlled.

A new planning application had since been approved by Burnley Council with the controversial agreement dropped.

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