PENDLE Council is seeking to purchase the last remaining building on the Athol Street garage site in Nelson.

Authorisation has been given to buy the structure and the remaining empty plots.

Now borough officers and Liberata Property Services are seeking to acquire all the land, the council’s Nelson Committee was told in a report at its meeting yesterday.

Once all the plots are in council ownership or control, the intention is to fence off the area and use the land as a community garden/food growing area.

Special projects manager Tricia Wilson told the committee: thattells the committee, which will meet in Nelson Town Hall on Market Street , that “Walverden School is interested in creatinginvolving the schoolchildren in a garden/food growing project.”

The site, currently designated an “environmental blight site” by Pendle Borough Council, is owned by seven different plot holders.

The committee, chaired by Whitefield ward councillor Asjad Mahmood, is set to approve proceeding with the purchase of the plots, demolition of the remaining garage and creation of the fenced off community garden and food growing area.