PARENTS are being given the chance to find out more about plans for two schools to share a single site as part of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.

Blackburn with Darwen Council has organised a drop-in session at Crosshill Special School today from 3pm to 4pm to explain the proposed co-location of Crosshill and Blakewater College on a new site in Haslingden Road.

The proposal is one part of the council's larger £150milion BSF plans to rejuvenate secondary education in the borough.

The plans were drawn up after a passionate campaign was fought against the original proposal to close the school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties completely.

Instead, the council proposed to have Crosshill on the same site as Blakewater College, which will be replaced with a new East Blackburn Community College at the site of the current golf driving range in Haslingden Road by 2012.

Mike Hatch, headteacher of the Shadsworth Road special school, said: "The council is encouraging parents and members of the community to have a say and be kept informed about the future education of children in the authority."

Blackburn with Darwen joined the national BSF programme in January, and will receive Government funding of around £150m to invest over the next nine years.

Staff at Pleckgate High School have also organised their own consultation evening tonight at 6.30pm, to give parents, carers, governors and people in the community a chance to say what they'd like to see in the school.