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Pendle mayor Brian Newman at the official Northlight completion ceremony
SWITCHING ON THE BIG LIGHT
Twelve years after Pendle Council acquired a historic former cotton mill, its impressive £32m transformation into a mixed-use development is now complete.
It was March 2012 when the council’s then chief executive Stephen Barnes successfully negotiated to buy the Grade II listed building, with a 100 per cent grant from the government’s Homes England body.
The mill complex was then transferred to PEARL – a joint venture between the council and Barnfield Investment Properties – and the remarkable regeneration journey began.
Now Northlight is complete, with its 85 two- bedroom apartments, education facilities, 103,000 sq ft of office and industrial work space, 25,000 sq ft of business storage and impressive leisure and cultural facilities.
It has been a success story built on partnership. PEARL invested £17.9m in the redevelopment and a further £11.82m was secured through the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Growth Deal, Burnley FC in the Community and its investors, the county council and Nelson and Colne College.
Tim Webber, managing director of Barnfield Construction and PEARL board member, said: “We are very proud to bring this iconic facility, and everything it comes with, to our local area.
“Had this building not been rescued, it would have been a real detriment to the area of Brierfield and hopefully now we have made something for the residents of Pendle to be proud of.”
Work on the building got underway in
2016 following a national masterplan and design competition.
Rose Rouse, council chief executive, said: “The success of the project is down to the power of partnership working.
“It is providing a better quality of life for local people, has supported a range of local businesses, created hundreds of jobs, secured much needed market housing and widened housing choice in Pendle and regenerated a dilapidated site.”
Debbie Francis, chair of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, which comes to the end of its life in March, said: “Northlight is exactly the type of regenerative project the LEP’s Growth Deal was designed to support.
“Reinventing a site like Brierfield as a contemporary mixed-used scheme, featuring residential, commercial, cultural and education facilities, will bring significant benefits to both businesses and communities.
“It also shows how by working in partnership, we can help to drive economic growth, support new jobs, and generate new opportunities for residents, across all parts of Lancashire.”
Pendle Enterprise and Regeneration Ltd (PEARL), was originally established by Barnfield and the council as a means to encourage regeneration and specifically as a vehicle for the development of a community-based Arts, Culture and Enterprise Centre in Nelson.
The joint venture went onto successfully transform sites across the borough. It brought a range of businesses into Northlight including Business First and Store First.
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