A social housing provider has been given permission to knock down two more properties on a former council estate.

The houses are in Staffa Crescent, Shadsworth, Blackburn, and the demolitions are part of a £20 million makeover of the 1950s development.

In November, Together Housing Group was given approval by Blackburn with Darwen Council to knock down 26 properties on the street.

They were numbers one to 17, 25 to 35, four, and eight to 26 in Staffa Crescent.

Now it has been given permission to demolish numbers six and 19 on the same stretch.

A report by planning officer Nick Blackledge says: "All buildings would be demolished to slab level and all relic foundations grubbed. Waste would be either reused on site or removed from the site.

"The disturbed ground would then be levelled and compacted flat, to facilitate future redevelopment.

"The cleared site will be secured with fencing after the demolition is complete."