Interesting comment KB. I have always thought Bacup looks such a beautiful town (the buildings) and would love to move there if there was an influx of other hard-working families.

Hurray, at last somebody in government has noticed that the current housing policies do not work. Locally (apparently) they are in desparate need of more affordable homes, yet to my reckoning the Bacup/Stacky area must have about 90% 2 bed terraced houses. To regenerate these areas, we don't need more money spending on amenities for the local hoodlums, we need to encourage new families to the areas. Without Hurstwoods and Boys, I dread to think what this area would be like. And even after years of mis-reading government guidelines on the number of new homes, we see that our local authority still demands that a massive percentage of new developments are 'affordable homes'. Given construction costs of today, this is near impossible to achieve.