Talbot Gateway phase two set for April start

Clearance work on the site of a proposed leisure scheme in Preston’s Harris Quarter, which is being brought forward by Maple Grove and Muse, has completed with a revised planning application expected in spring.

The £60m project to create a three-storey student centre and a civic square at UCLan is progressing with the 450-tonne steel frame for the building currently under construction.

Carroll Build, part of The Sovini Group, has been appointed to complete the £12.5m Albion Mill extra care facility in Blackburn, following the collapse of Bardsley Construction.

Permission has been granted for a previously refused scheme in Anchorsholme following a successful appeal by the developer, which argued that the council acted "unreasonably".

A cinema is to be demolished and turned into a four-storey building with 28 apartments for students, under plans recommended for approval next week. 

The company behind the Government's HS2 rail project was over-ambitious and there is "significant uncertainty" as to whether it can be completed between 2036 and 2040 as planned, a report from said.

The joint venture between Harworth and the Lancashire County Pension Fund has let two industrial units totalling 46,000 sq ft at the Multiply Logistics North site in Bolton.

An application to build an Aldi supermarket on a 2.7-acre plot in Tarleton has been withdrawn from the council's agenda pending further consideration, while a 60-home scheme in Skelmersdale and an extension to the Briars Hall Hotel in Burscough were approved.

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