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Search the Public Notice PortalA local discount retailer has asked Blackburn with Darwen Council to approve its largest and latest store, after work has already been carried out on the site.
The former Cob Wall Working Men’s Club in Daisy Lane, Blackburn, had become something of an eyesore, lying derelict for the last two decades after serving the local community for around a century.
In recent months its shabby exterior has been overhauled and turned into a cash-and-carry supermarket called Bargain Basket.
However, these changes were carried out without the necessary planning permission, and now the owners have put in a retrospective application to the council
It's the second Bargain Basket in Blackburn, after a store opened in February in East Park Road.
In the past, plans to turn the site into a wedding venue and a restaurant fell through, in part due to strong opposition from nearby residents.
The owners of Bargain Basket claim these lapsed applications justify the change of use to a shop.
Planning agent Urban Future Planning said that its client ‘seeks to put it to effective use, one that promotes consumer choice in the locality, results in urban regeneration and creates jobs for local people’.
It said the store caters for the majority Muslim surrounding population, and would stock products catering to this demographics including imported specialty goods, fruit and vegetable, and also has an in-store halal butcher.
They are also planning to install a café at the store.
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The plans add the Daisy Lane site is the "only suitable location available in the town" due to its large car park and nearby on-street parking.
Dark cladding and paint are already up on the outside of the building, with internal refurbishment work also underway; construction materials can be seen lying around the perimeter.
Urban Future Planning added: “The proposed use is not considered a noise-generating use, and the comings and goings would be indistinguishable from the already higher-than-average levels of activity in the locality.
“Allowing the use will not jeopardise living conditions, especially as the building is detached and orientated away from residential receptors.”
