Work has started on the £18.8m extension of Lancaster University Management School, with contractor John Turner Construction expecting to complete the five-storey building for the 2020/21 academic year.
Proposals to redevelop the site of Burscough FC’s stadium and to build a new facility for the football club have moved forward, with a decision on the plans now resting with the Secretary of State.
Lancashire County Council has opened the tender for a main contractor as it seeks to deliver the Heyhouses link road.
The building of a dual carriageway between Windy Harbour and Skippool near Poulton-le-Fylde has edged closer, after the Planning Inspectorate agreed to examine Highways England’s plans.
Eric Wright Group has started building the long-awaited extension of Chorley’s Market Walk shopping centre, nearly two years after a £17m funding package was signed off for the project.
Developer Chancerygate and contractor Pochins have reached practical completion on the £3.3m Eaton Point, a 54,000 sq ft speculatively-developed industrial scheme which forms part of the wider Matrix Park project.
The local authority has launched a market-sounding exercise as it seeks to bring developers and investors on board to deliver major employment sites within the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone.
A 33,000 sq ft extension of Wigan’s Wrightington Hospital, featuring educational and medical research space, has secured planning consent with Interserve understood to be in discussions to deliver the project.
Eric Wright Group has reported a pre-tax profit of £7.2m for the year 2017 in what the Lancashire business described as a “a strong set of results”.
Lancashire County Council is set to sign off an updated planning application for a £190m road linking the A583 with Cottam and the M55 with the project due to start next year subject to approval from the Secretary of State.
