6:40pm Friday 12th March 2010
A NEW Conservative Party office in Darwen breaches planning guidelines, Labour councillors have told borough planners.
Labour claims the use of signs, outside the building in Railway Road, is against rules for the heritage area.
But Jake Berry, the Conservatives’ prospective candidate for Darwen and Rossendale, hit back, saying: “I am satisfied that the signage at our new office complies with planning law, having raised the issue with the council before the signs even went up.
“I’m delighted we have been able to open our new office in the town centre to serve the people of Darwen.”
The office, a local base for Mr Berry’s general election campaign, opened last month and was recently visited by Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Regeneration chief Adam Scott said: “The signs are apparently replacements of what was on the building previously and are being looked at to see if they are acceptable.”
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