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DEVELOPERS of Lancashire's
multi-million 'skills city' are to spend £500,000 on relocating skylarks and
lapwings to a new site 35 miles away.
Finding the rare birds a new home
is essential to next stage of the Enterprise Zone based at BAE
Systems Samlesbury site, once condemned by government ministers
as ' the worst in the country'.
In 2012 the Lancashire Enterprise
Partnership, brining together councils and businesses, proposed the development
aimed at boosting skills and creating 6,000 hi-tech jobs.
In 2014 government ministers
Penny Mordaunt and Greg Clark told the LEP they had 'lost confidence' in the
scheme, the only one of 24 in England to have attracted no new businesses or
produced any new jobs.
On Thursday the Cabinet of
Lancashire County Council, a key player in the LEP, will consider an update
confirming leases on the land needed had been agreed with BAE Systems and
authorising spending of £11.5 million on road and drainage works to prepare
more of the site for occupation.
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