Newtown Mill

Burnley Town centre and Canalside Masterplan is a £200m plan to transform the town. Burnley Town Centre provides a significant travel to work, travel to learn and leisure hub in the east of the County. Significant progress has already been made with circa £40m investment in an iconic Canalside Campus for the University of Lancashire occupying over quarter of a million square foot of floorspace with capacity for up to 5000 FTE students and scope for further development. The campus focusses primarily on medicine and health care, working closely with the East Lancashire Hospitals and Cyber and Digital in collaboration with the area’s digi-tech sector. Alongside a University campus the canalside offers opportunities to develop canalside living close to the town centre with excellent rail connectivity to Lancashire, North Manchester and West Yorkshire. The town centre is bucking the trend in terms of occupancy with recent investment in a new leisure development at Pioneer Place. The masterplan identifies interventions for housing and business space. A digi-tech hub, with a focus on bridging digital and AI solutions with the advanced engineering and manufacturing sector is a key piece of the planned investment in the town centre