The proposed £12.6m leisure centre at Wilsons Playing Fields in Clayton-le-Moors has been given the final go-ahead by cabinet minister Michael Gove. Despite objections from local residents and a Labour councillor, the project has been approved as part of the Leisure Transformation Project. Sport England has also increased its grant towards the development to £2.4m. Wilsons Playing Fields will be transferred to Hyndburn Leisure Trust for the project's development.
Controversials proposals to create a £12.6million leisure centre at Wilsons Playing Fields in Clayton-le-Moors have now been given the final go-ahead by a cabinet minister.
But because of the size of the scheme and its location in protected Green Belt countryside the approval was referred to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up and Communities, for him to rubber stamp, reject or order a Whitehall audit of the decision. It was revealed at Hyndburn Council’s Cabinet on Wednesday that he has now given the development - part of the authority’s Leisure Transformation Project - his approval.
The meeting also approved a contingency budget of £330,000 to cover unexpected expenditure and the transfer of Wilsons Playing Fields to Hyndburn Leisure Trust which will develop the project.
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