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  • "Preston,Blackburn and Blackpool are second tier towns,that each towns must strive toward ensuring that investment must be of equal measures,thus maintaining the viability of each town's economy with no detrimental effect to their neighbours so therefore the arguments is the Titherbarn project would kill off the neighbouring town's economies is overwhelmingly true.
    As for the Sainsbury proposals in Blackburn town centre would not harm or kill off neighbouring towns economies,neither it will harm Blackburn town centre shop,because the majority of shops are clothes shops and take-aways.
    Preston is only a town in same league as Blackburn and Blackpool.The sooner Blackburn gets the City Status as it's deserved the better for Lancashire and people of Lancashire.
    Latest population figures
    Blackburn 140,000
    Blackpool 140,000
    Preston 136,000."
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Blackburn MP welcomes John Lewis Tithebarn decision

BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw has welcomed a decision by John Lewis to pull the plug on a massive department store at the centre of Preston’s Tithebarn development.

The retail giant’s decision to pull out of the deal has scuppered plans to revamp Preston town centre under a £700million scheme.

Blackburn with Darwen Council challenged ministers’ decision to award planning permission to scheme, which was the subject of a multi-million pound public inquiry in 2010.

Mr Straw said: “I am not surprised that John Lewis has pulled out because it would have been years before they could have started, since a condition of the planning permission was vastly improved road schemes and public transport schemes. Preston is gridlocked on Saturdays and during rush hours.

“By backing this grandiose scheme, Preston City Council and Lancashire County Council have cost boroughs elsewhere in Lancashire hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs to fight the application.”

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