Whitebirk

[1] The area is largely industrial, and is the eastern terminus of the town's northern bypass, the A6119, where it meets Junction 6 of the M65.

Peel, the site's owner, has repeatedly 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.

EDC Blackburn was the largest manufacturer of CDs in the United Kingdom,[6] and was located between Whitebirk and Little Harwood; the company, formerly Deluxe Global Media Services, was acquired by Entertainment Distribution Company in December 2006, and officially closed down in June 2009, when production was moved to Germany.

[7][8] Bus manufacturer Darwen Group, formerly East Lancashire Coachbuilders, moved to the industrial estate in the 1990s, from its previous site in the Brookhouse area of Blackburn.