Northlight Brierfield Mills Masterplan
The visionary masterplan for this £35m conversion of a Grade II listed mills complex along the Leeds and Liverpool canal, providing a mixed-use residential, leisure, commercial, retail and college development for PEARL2 in Brierfield town centre is now nearly complete.
The redevelopment of this cluster of former cotton mills, under the new development name of NORTHLIGHT, has created an appealing destination for the region, combining tourism, leisure, training and education facilities that will attract visitors from far and wide.
The site includes 85 private residential apartments, a new facility for Burnley Football Club in the community, storage space, commercial office space and business units, nursery, dance studio, new canal side plaza, public realm and parking. It is also the new headquarters for the Lancashire Learning College, as well as the Insitu Artist Studio.
Following the RIBA ‘Plan of Works’, the team carried out an initial site appraisal and feasibility study across the masterplan area and vicinity: linking to Brierfield town centre and back to the motorway junction.
The team co-ordinated all of the heritage, conservation, highways aspects, including 278 works, compulsory purchase orders, ‘stopping up’, servicing, access and circulation for the site. Supporting the client team with information for negotiations and agreements with the Highway Authority; Lancashire County Council, with resultant Traffic Regulation Orders, stopping up of highway, parking strategies and an agreement of all highway requirements.
Creating a series of squares and canal side terraces that provide a dignified and appropriate setting for listed buildings and heritage assets are further complemented with interlinked pedestrian spaces.
Out of the £35m development the project has attracted over £13m of funding from various stakeholders including the Local Enterprise Partnership, Sports England, Lancashire County Council, Pendle Borough Council, Arts Council and the Football Association.