CALM is set to move across Burnley - councillors have agreed a new site for the town's Peace Garden.

They plan to re-locate the garden to the Place De Vitry - the square next to the central library and war memorial - when the present town centre garden is bulldozed to become a car park in the planned £12 million Curzon Street shopping redevelopment scheme.

Design options for the new site include a fountain centre-piece, sundial, sitting areas, plants, shrubs, bushes and trees, the economic and property sub committee was told.

The present garden created at the height of the Cold War, rapidly became the favourite haunt of drunks, drop-outs and drug abusers.

There was indignation from Labour leaders over a suggestion that they had aimed to scrap the Peace Garden altogether.

A report confused relocation plans for the garden with the likely fate of St James' Spire, which will be razed to the ground in the development plan.

Councillors had always made clear their determination to keep it - even though the move across town could cost upwards of £10,000.

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