BLACKBURN and Darwen residents are urged to have their say on the council's £150 million plan to transform the borough's secondary schools.

The local authority aims to "improve standards and integration", under the Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme.

It includes revamping high schools in the borough as well as replacing Blackburn's Pleckgate High School Mathematics and Computing College and Witton Park High School Specialist Business and Enterprise College with £25million super schools'.

The town's Blakewater College will become an East Lancashire Community School, either rebuilt on the current site or at two other undisclosed council-owned sites.

A BSF newsletter and questionnaire will be available in schools and community facilities or downloaded from the council's website www.blackburn.gov.uk/bsf from March 20.

The responses will be used to build more detailed plans over the next six months.

The council is also planning a series of public meetings and mobile drop in consultation sessions at secondary schools, some primary schools, children's centres, community and shopping centres.