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Whitebirk is a suburb in the east of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. Most of the suburb is in Blackburn with Darwen, a unitary area, with the east of the suburb being in the borough of Hyndburn. Whitebirk is part of the Blackburn urban area. The area is largely industrial and is the eastern terminus of the town's northern ring road, the A6119, where it meets junction 6 of the M65. To the west of the ring road there is Burnley Road and the Greenbank Business Park, and to the east, across the boundary in Hyndburn, is the Peel Centre Blackburn, a retail park built in the 1980s on the site of Whitebirk Power Station, which was opened in 1921 and closed in 1976. The suburb also includes a council estate, which is situated between the A679 Accrington Road, A678 Burnley Road and A6119 Whitebirk Road.〔(Welcome to the website for the Community Health Development Team )〕 The areas of Whitebirk are in different wards for local government: the residential area is in Shadsworth & Whitebirk, the industrial estate is in Little Harwood, and the retail park is in Rishton ward. ==Retail== The Peel Centre includes stores such as Currys, PC World, ScS Sofas, Onit Furniture, Sofaworks, Harveys Furniture & Bensons for Beds. In January 2015, Smyths Toys Superstore announced plans to open in the park, and is set to open December 2015. The Range has a store in Whitebirk, located where B&Q and Toys R US used to be in Blackburn, before it relocated in September 2004 to the ''Nova Scotia Retail Park'', in the Grimshaw Park area. Peel, the site's owner, have repetitively have had planning permission denied for a controversial expansion of the park, first in May 2005, then June 2007, and most recently August 2014, by the High Court, after an appeal was lodged. They wanted the use of the site to be changed, by adding ASDA Living, Boots, and Next, trying to make a "copy" of Preston's Deepdale, as well as relocating other stores. In June 2007, then–Blackburn MP Jack Straw announced that it would be the "death knell" for Blackburn, as did then–Hyndburn MP Greg Pope, saying that it would be the "death knell" for Accrington. A motor park in Whitebirk includes: BMW & Mini (''Bowker''), Audi (''Thompson''), Toyota (''Vantage''), Volkswagen (''Lookers''), ''Hippo Motor Group'' & ''Rocket Centre''. Other car dealers in Whitebirk are Mercedes-Benz (''Blackburn''), and Ford (''Evans Halshaw''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whitebirk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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