Burnley Express 19 Sep 59
Improvement committee saw, and approved for consideration by the Town Council, the plan of the zone that is to be an area of wide, modern thoroughfares serving shops and offices, a new bus station and a Garden of Remembrance, along with facilities already in existence. The area is bounded on the side farthest away from the town centre by the proposed inner ring-road. Two of the projects the bus station and the by-pass road - are scheduled to commence in the current financial year. 1959-60. Practically the whole of the plan for the area is expected to be a reality within the next five years, subject to obtaining all necessary official consents so far not received.