DETAILS of how and where East Lancashire's £103million housing windfall is to be spent have been revealed.

In Blackburn housing in two areas, Bank Top in the north and Griffin in the south, will be targeted.

Both of the areas are dominated by pre-1919 terraced houses and a significant amount of social rented managed by Twin Valley Homes.

Elevate, the team set up to deliver the regeneration programme, said much of the private terraced stock is in poor condition while most of the 1960s and '70s social housing needs to be looked at.

Ashworth Street Estate will be remodelled with homes demolished and others renovated.

An area to the south and east of Blackburn town centre, which has low house prices, low rates of economic activity, poor health and high levels of crime, will also be targeted.

A new housing development along the canal side in Infirmary is one of the projects identified and a mill is due to be demolished to make way for new housing.

In Darwen the area earmarked includes most of the town centre.

Most of the terraced housing around the town centre is privately rented. Elevate said many were unfit or in need of repairs, while a significant number suffer from structural problems.

The older housing has not been improved for more than 15 years while private housing development on the edge of Darwen has exacerbated the low demand for older properties.

Hyndburn's programme was due to be focused on the neighbourhoods of West Accrington, Church and Clayton-le-Moors during the first two years of the programme.

West Accrington and Church comprises approximately 3,000 residential properties, of which the majority are old terraced houses. Elevate said the area suffers low demand and poor housing exacerbated by poor health, inadequate housing, disproportionately high unemployment, low wages and above average crime rates.

It is understood that around 350 houses in the Lower Antley are of West Accrington will be bulldozed followed by comprehensive rebuilding programme.

The new facilities set to be brought to the area include a large community health centre, new bungalows for older residents and family homes developed by a housing corporation support. On the north side of Accrington, homes on Blackburn Road are set to be renovated, new open spaces created and the main approach into the town centre link with Church will be improved.

In Church Elevate said it will concentrate on improving the canalside area which could see old building brought back to life.

Although Hyndburn's council leader Peter Britcliffe has expressed doubt about the ability to carry out work in Clayton-le-Moors, Elevate said properties had been adversely affected by an overly-congested Whalley Road and vehicles travelling to Whinney Hill Tip of waste disposal vehicles.

Elevate had hoped to improve Clayton's town centre and reduce congestion in Whalley Road and to constrain the passage of vehicles going through the town to Whinney Hill Tip.