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Diversion On Two Main Routes

25 May 1969
Curzon Street and Trafalgar Streetl Burnley

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Diversion On Two Main Routes
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Yes, this is Burnley. In fact it is the new route now being taken from Trafalgar Street through the corporation housing development. The re-routing has been caused by the closure of part of Sandygate to make way for more corporation flats.

Two main routes were officially closed to through traffic this week, one in the town centre and the other in the Trafalgar Street area, to make way for further redevelopment.
From Wednesday buses operating on the Rosegrove services via Stoops Estate and Gretna have been diverted in Trafalgar Street. Sandygate from its junction with Trafalgar Street to the junction with Blannel Street is now closed to allow further extensions of the Trafalgar area housing development project, involving the building of about 200 flats, a similar number to those already built.
A new route sign in Curzon Street near the temporary market hall shows that Parker Street, from its junction with Curzon Street to Bank Parade, is now a street with a "dead" end. The car park off Parker Street which accommodated about 70 vehicles has now been closed. GUS Ltd., has now taken possession of the area for the development of a giant office block which will eventually extend across the present line of Parker Street and into the former car park area.
Burnley Corporation has now received confirmation of its request for a compulsory purchase order in respect of Parsonage Mill, which is to be developed as a multi-storey car parking stack as soon as the final stages of the present central area redevelopment are complete. The present temporary market hall will also be developed for its original purpose - as a multi-storey car parking stack.

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