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Second snag on East Lancashire regeneration company name
11:12am Wednesday 9th December 2009
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- By Tom Moseley » Local government reporter
REGENERATION bosses have been scuppered for a second time in their attempts to find a name for their new company.
The organisation, made up of six councils from across East Lancashire, will be formed to lobby for more funds in a bid to rival Manchester and Liverpool.
The first name they had chosen, Pennine Lancashire Development Company Limited, was taken at the last minute by a Burnley resident who registered it with Companies House.
Kate Hollern, Blackburn with Darwen council’s opposition leader, told the Lancashire Telegraph at the time: “This is absolute madness. Why was it not registered before?"
And now, after the Lancashire Telegraph's story on this first hiccup, the second choice name, Pennine Lancashire Developments Limited, has also been taken.
Companies House records show it was set up on December 1, with the same registered address, Hargher Street, Burnley.
Now Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Michael Lee refuses to reveal the next choice in case it is registered by someone else.
He said: “It is mildly irritating. I can only assume he thinks he will make money from it, but we are not that sort of company and won’t be paying for it.”
Pennine Lancashire is a joint project between the leaders of Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley councils.
The branding was the brainchild of music mogul Tony Wilson, who died in 2007.
Bosses hope by working together they will be able to channel more government funding through the new organisation.
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Shepherdess, Rossendale says...
11:39am Wed 9 Dec 09
bankhall, burnley says...
12:10pm Wed 9 Dec 09
Wikidi, Accrington says...
12:10pm Wed 9 Dec 09
Thought you all knew better!
The way you’re all going, bet the government funding would be wasted on ridiculous projects as such.
Akki, Accy says...
12:14pm Wed 9 Dec 09
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Even a 5 year old knows you should register the name first before you go public with it, what plonkers the Council are
pull some strings, ROSSENDALE says...
1:03pm Wed 9 Dec 09
I wonder if the person is on benefits from the state?? Probably.
I wonder if they would have paid the tax on any income they may have got from their actions?? Probably not.
Stop appaulding whoever it was they are the sc*m of this once great country.
CAG1, Blackburn with Darwen says...
3:04pm Wed 9 Dec 09
PENNINE LANCASHIRE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION LTD
Has the Lancashire Telegraph bothered to contact 'resident' for a response / comment?
Honest John, Burnley says...
3:17pm Wed 9 Dec 09
Davidoff, n/a says...
4:28pm Wed 9 Dec 09
Never mind. I think it's more a case of someone who is so **** fed up of people getting screwed over by these stupid 'schemes' and can see the total waste of money it will be. People don't seem to learn from the past. Hence money is thrown down drains. Literally.
And as it shows how thick the people in charge of it clearly are by not getting in there first. Sensibly does anyone want to see vast amounts of money in the hands of people who don't know how to register a company properly? FFS! It's more or less common knowledge these days. Maybe they didn't know how to use the internet or Google for example. There you go.
Sheperdess is correct.
time.team, Blackburn says...
4:53pm Wed 9 Dec 09
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Michael, do you really mean you have not checked already?
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Let's all hope the choice is not: Start as you mean to go on!
Stone Island, Blackburn says...
5:56pm Wed 9 Dec 09
Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
7:32pm Wed 9 Dec 09
It is called centralisation of power, better known as communism.
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Power over larger areas in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
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Better start calling each other 'comrades'.....
ji1, burnley says...
11:39am Sat 12 Dec 09
MILDLY IRRITATED: Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Michael Lee
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midas, burnley says...
11:24am Wed 9 Dec 09