'Redundant dilapidated structure': Buildings which once housed Lancashire youth hub set for demolition
The buildings which once housed a Blackburn young people’s hub is set to be knocked down.
The Kaleidoscope Youth Centre in Lindisfarne Avenue, Higher Croft, closed after a council ‘asset review’ last year. It had delivered term-time and holiday activities for children with special needs and disabilities (SEND) for more than 15 years.
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But the centre’s owner, Blackburn with Darwen Council, moved this provision to the borough’s main special school, Newfield , in Old Bank Lane, Shadsworth. Now the authority has applied to itself for planning permission to demolish the single-storey buildings.
A supporting statement said: “The site accommodates two separate single storey buildings with a playground and a carpark. This application seeks to demolish the redundant structure on the grounds of its dilapidated state.
“The demolition of the Kaleidoscope Youth Centre building located at 74 Lindisfarne Avenue, Blackburn, comprises of pulling down of main buildings, grubbing-up of foundations and disused services, filling of voids with compacted crushed fill.
“A new 2.4 metre high fence to be installed to the boundary of the site post demolition to ensure the security of the site post demolition. A number of trees are present within the periphery of the boundary. These trees are not detrimental to the demolition of the building and will remain in situ post demolition.
“Risk avoidance measures will be adopted as highlighted in the ecology report including the erection of a bat box to adjacent trees prior to demolition. Debris and spoil from the demolished structure to be removed from site other than crushed masonry/ concrete, which is to be used for making up a temporary surface were substructures and services have been grubbed up.
“Material’s to be recycled where possible. Site to be left level with existing hardstanding surfaces and grassed areas retained and voids from former structures filled with crushed hardcore. Temporary heras fencing to perimeter to prevent unauthorised access. Access and egress to and from the site will be to Lindisfarne Avenue.”