PLANS for housing on a derelict former mill site have been rejected.
Stone Cross Homes Ltd wanted to build an estate on land west of Moorgate Street, Blackburn.
The Bolton firm proposed 20 houses and flats on the vacant land overlooking the Leeds-Liverpool Canal.
The site was home to the former six-storey Moorgate Mill from 1836 until it was demolished in 2008 to accommodate the prospect of new housing.
As part of a previous planning application, two purpose-built blocks with 20 apartments for the learning-disabled and vulnerable were built and opened in 2014.
But the new homes never went ahead as happened with a second bid for 18 houses in 2015.
The new application was for 20 two- and three-bedroomed houses and one-bedroomed flats.
But Blackburn with Darwen planners have refused to grant planning permission for the scheme because of insufficient information, particularly regarding a culvert running beneath the site.
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