Popular cinema chain Reel Cinema has signed as anchor tenant for the £26million Pioneer Place leisure and retail scheme in Burnley town centre.

Burnley Council, owners of Pioneer Place, has announced that the scheme has received a significant boost, having signed agreements with Reel to bring an eight-screen, 18,134 sq.ft. multi-screen cinema complex to the Pioneer Place development, which will also include a restaurant plaza, shops and 125-space car park.

The complex will also have space for seven restaurant units and two shops.

An opportunity has arisen to take over the running of a Burnley community centre and help deliver services and activities to local residents.

Burnley Council is keen to hear from any person, community group or other organisation interested in managing the Burnley Wood centre.

The council owns the Springfield Road building and is interested in hearing from anyone who has the skills, enthusiasm and initiative to develop the centre and continue to provide a valuable place for people to meet and enjoy a wide range of activities.

Burnley Council’s contact centre is on the move at the end of this month

Contact Burnley will move from its existing offices on the corner of Parker Lane and Red Lion Street to new offices, just 50 yards along Parker Lane, in September.

The existing offices will close at 5pm on Friday 27th and re-open in the new building at 9am on Monday 30th. The office move is taking place over a weekend to avoid any disruption to services to the public.

Burnley Council has published its latest savings proposals as part of its plans to continue to meet its financial challenges.

A report by council’s head of finance and property services, Asad Mushtaq, to the council’s executive committee sets out the current financial position and how councillors can balance the books over the coming three years.  

The council has already earmarked £277,000 in savings to help balance the next two years’ budgets. Further proposed savings of £242,000 will be considered by the executive when it meets on Tuesday (17th).

A man has been ordered to carry out 160 hours community service in relation to an incident in which barrels of a “paint-like” substance were dumped, blocking a country lane above Burnley.

Preston Crown Court heard that eight 45-gallon drums were fly-tipped in Mill Hill Lane, Hapton, leaving an estimated £43,000 clean-up and repair bill and killing more than 25 fish in a nearby stream.

David Lee Gordon (also known as David Lee Walsh), 28, of East Crescent, Accrington, pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to the unauthorised disposal of waste.