The layout will be rejigged, trees and plants will be replaced and the square resurfaced
A memorial garden honouring the hundreds of East Lancashire soldiers who lost their lives in the 1916 Battle of the Somme is to be enhanced.
A supporting statement submitted with a planning application to Hyndburn Council by town hall officials says: “Accrington Pals Memorial Garden lies centrally within the designated as Accrington Town Centre Conservation Area. The area on Church Street provides an important open space currently providing seating overlooking raised planters and amenity grass with a number of mature ‘Flowering Cherry’ trees.
“The proposal is to uplift the Pals Memorial Garden into a more enjoyable public place for local residents to use and relax improving its contribution to the conservation area. The quality of the existing space has significant scope for improvement removing much of the unnecessary streetscape clutter of bollards and chains, poor quality raised planters which currently provide neglected poor quality horticultural displays and the concrete flags which are again neglected and in a poor condition.
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