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I was caught staring into space the other lunch-time. Nothing new there then, you're probably thinking.

Which reminds me of the old teacher/pupil exchange, catching the pupil staring out of the window.

"What are you up to?"

"I was thinking, sir".

"Well stop it and get on with your work".

The space I was staring into was created by the demolition work right at the heart of Blackburn town centre.

I was meeting my pal, Steve for lunch in Café Bees on the plaza which is Church Street.

There we had a grandstand view of what was going on and what was to go on that space. Really exciting.

I'd driven in past Margo Grimshaw's very imaginative and bold development near my favourite haunt Fleming Square - another plaza type space.

The week before I'd visited Darwen to take some unwanted items to one of the charity shops and used it's new one way system which will free up more space back to the pedestrian and the shopper.

I didn't go as far as the transformed India Mill or the soon to be transformed Belgrave site or Darwen's very own Academy school site.

But I did skirt the fantastic new health centre and the work being done on a brand new leisure centre for the town.

On the way back into Blackburn, I was delayed slightly near Town Moor and was able to stare again at our very own Sydney Harbour like bridge that will almost complete the centre by passing link from Bolton Road to Eanam.

I'd had a meeting at the college where I'm a governor after my lunch.

There we discussed, I can't remember, Development Phases x, y and z, costing tens of millions.

A new motor vehicle building and higher education building that, with the new health building to sit next to the iconic Capita building will complete a fantastic "sweep" of 21st century buildings along Barbara Castle Way.

Towards the end of the week my daughter cadged a lift back to work and I was amazed at the work and the new works up in the Shadsworth/Guide area with dozens of new and old firms located there with hundreds of new jobs with more to come.

I returned passed the new super hospital, serving all of "Pennine" Lancashire.

And then I passed the old "workhouse" where she'd been born over twenty years before.

There's a lot been happening in our locality and there's a lot more to come, I guess.

When you include all the new schools that will be built over the next 5 or so years and all the housing changes that are on going or imminent, the future looks very bright and exciting.

As I said to my pal, Steve. All this exciting work going on before our very eyes and there'll be still be those who'll moan!

4:46pm Monday 3rd March 2008

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