{"id":47143,"date":"2025-08-06T04:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47143\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:56:18","slug":"mountain-of-rubbish-cleared-from-front-of-town-centre-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47143\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain of rubbish cleared from front of town centre site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Fly-tippers had dumped mountains of rubbish at the front of the former John\u2019s Snooker and Pool Bar in Clayton Street, just off Mincing Lane.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mattresses and sofas had\u00a0been discarded at the site and thrown over a six-foot-high fence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tip was getting bigger and bigger until earlier this year, residents who live close by spoke out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The area has been fenced off to deter anyone accessing the site, but people have then left household rubbish on the pavement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rubbish was attracting rats and is opposite a row of flats, and only a few hundred yards away from the town centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There is still some discarded furniture on the site, but this is away from the front of the building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>There was still some rubbish but away from the front\u00a0 (Image: Nq) In February, the council said the site was private land and was working with the landowner to resolve the issue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They had also carried out site visits with the landowners to allow them to access the waste to recover evidence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Following this, they said teams were in communication with several people regarding &#8216;the illegal deposit of this waste&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>This was scene earlier with rubbish taking up the whole of the entrance\u00a0(Image: Nq) MORE FROM THE LT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/18306287.fire-breaks-former-johns-snooker-pool-bar-blackburn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire breaks out at former John&#8217;s Snooker and Pool Bar<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  MORE FROM THE LT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/23490293.roof-restored-much-loved-blackburn-snooker-hall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roof restored to much-loved Blackburn snooker hall<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The iconic old snooker hall is one of the town&#8217;s most famous buildings, but was destroyed in a major fire in March 2020, just days before the first Covid-19 lockdown began.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It had sat abandoned for many years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Work did begin on restoring the site with a steel frame a new roof going up in recent years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Further work has come to a standstill, and the Clayton Street entrance became a fly-tipping hotspot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fly-tippers had dumped mountains of rubbish at the front of the former John\u2019s Snooker and Pool Bar in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-47143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}