The 70-year-old Haweswater Aqueduct which supplies water from the Lake District to Lancashire and Greater Manchester is being upgraded
Councillors have approved a new seven-a-side football pitch agreed to avoid the controversial relocation of a village football club to make way for a giant water pipeline. The scheme for Huncoat United is a result of the £1.75billion project to upgrade the 70-year-old Haweswater Aqueduct which supplies water from the Lake District to Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
This involves major work on land off Bolton Avenue, Huncoat, which affected the football club and led to controversial plans to move it from its current base for several years. North West water supplier United Utilities and Hyndburn Council originally proposed to move Huncoat United Junior FC to two newly-created pitches at Great Harwood’s Memorial Playing Fields.
But after negotiations, a deal was agreed in August which means United Utilities will build a new pitch on Bolton Avenue Playing Fields in areas where their engineering work for the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme will not cause disturbance.Now the planning application for the new seven-a-side pitch to permit creation of a construction compound on its original site has been granted planning permission by Hyndburn Council planning committee on Wednesday.
An officers report said: “To enable the HARP tunnel construction, a section of which extends from Huncoat in Hyndburn through to the neighbouring borough of Rossendale, a construction compound at Bolton Avenue Playing Fields is required to receive the tunnel boring machine.” Subscribe to our daily newsletter LANCS LIVE NEWS and get all the biggest stories from across Lancashire direct to your inbox
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