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The Canalside Conservation Area was first designated in October 1988. It was extended in March and August 1990 and again in March 1993. A further and final extension in February 1997 enclosed the whole of the area known today as the ‘Weavers’ Triangle’. A selection of the original designation documents can be seen in the downloads section below.
The Canalside Conservation Area has an overall length of 5.1 kilometres and covers an area of some 34 hectares centred on a section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It includes a fine collection of well-preserved canalside architecture and engineering features, and is widely recognised as being one of the most important historic industrial areas in England.
The core part of the Conservation Area, the Weavers’ Triangle, played a key role in Burnley’s success from the late-eighteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries as a major manufacturing centre for the cotton industry. Despite the decline of the cotton industry in Burnley in the second half of the twentieth century, and accompanying neglect, dilapidation and a number of losses in the built environment, the area remains remarkably intact and retains important physical reminders of the town’s manufacturing heyday.
Canalside Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan
Canalside Conservation Area Appraisal (CAA)
A draft Conservation Area Appraisal for the Canalside Conservation Area was prepared by the Building Design Partnership (BDP) in August 2004 but was not progressed to adoption by the Council.
A further draft Conservation Area Appraisal was published for consultation in January 2013 with a view to its adoption by the Council as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD). This was not progressed. This assessment was based on a thorough survey of the area in summer 2009, and a more limited survey focusing on areas of change in Autumn 2012.
Canalside Conservation Area Management Plan (CAMP)
A draft Canalside Conservation Area Management Plan was also published for consultation in January 2013 also with the intention that it would be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD). Again, this was not progressed.
