Published on Friday 5 December 2025 at 9:24 am
Blackburn with Darwen Council has successfully secured more than £14million of new funding through major developments across the borough over the past five years.
Filed under: Growth and Development | Infrastructure Funding Statement | investment
Published on Thursday 12 June 2025 at 3:07 pm
Following the Chancellor’s announcement on Wednesday 11 June on government spending over the next three to four years, the Leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council made this statement:
Councillor Phil Riley said:
There was a notable theme through the Chancellor’s Spending Review of helping people who are struggling.
Filed under: government funding | investment | Spending Review
Published on Wednesday 24 July 2024 at 10:11 am
Blackburn with Darwen borough council is investing £30m to help improve transport links in and around South East Blackburn.
Filed under: Blackburn | investment | Junction 5 | M65 | South East Blackburn
Published on Friday 4 August 2023 at 12:17 pm
Blackburn’s first-ever electric power station is set to be transformed after Blackburn and Darwen Youth Zone successfully secured almost £3m of new Government funding.
Filed under: Blackburn Youth Zone | employment | investment | skills | young people | Youth Investment Fund
Published on Thursday 2 March 2023 at 9:44 am
Over £8million is to be invested in roads and transport services across Blackburn with Darwen, if approved by next week’s Executive Board meeting.
Filed under: Executive board | Highways | investment | transport
Published on Tuesday 1 March 2022 at 9:00 am
The Council has approved its budget for the coming year – with a boost for many Council services.
Filed under: budget | Councillor | Finance Council | investment | Mohammed Khan | Vicky McGurk
Published on Friday 18 December 2020 at 10:04 am
New businesses have been given the green light by the Council to start building their firms on one of Blackburn’s prime development sites.
Filed under: Arctic Glass | business | Carl Fogarty Way | Councillor | Development | Inceptum2 | investment | Phil Riley
Published on Friday 24 January 2020 at 12:43 pm
A meeting was held recently with leaders from authorities across the North of England at Transport for the North in Leeds – and there was a lot of discussion around the problems with the rail network.
Filed under: Councillor | investment | Phil Riley | rail network | TfN | Transport for the North
Published on Friday 1 March 2019 at 10:07 am
Transport for the North is launching its plans for £70 billion investment in the north.
The investment in transport across the area aims to unlock economic growth across the north including Blackburn and Darwen.
Filed under: Blackburn Town Hall | information event | investment | Transport for the North
