Contractor chosen for £18m Blackpool tram extension

Lancashire County Council's development control committee has granted consent for the £17.5m scheme, which will link the A59 Liverpool Road to the A582 at Brown Hare Roundabout, reducing congestion in the centre of Penwortham.

Lancashire County Council is in the market for a contractor to refurbish the Greyhound Bridge in Lancaster in a project estimated at £4m.

Balfour Beatty has sold the controlling interest in the airport to Blackpool Council, returning it to public ownership after 13 years.

Surefreight has opened a £1.3m depot in Heysham with the aim of improving business opportunities to and from Peel Ports Mersey.

The new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Jesse Norman MP, made his first public appearance after eight days in his new role, at Place North West and Transport for the North’s inaugural conference.

Network Rail has released further details of the programme that will see the 17 miles of rail between Blackpool and Preston closed for up to 18 weeks later this year, and announced that Ashton-under-Lyne’s railway station is to be closed for three weeks in July.

British Waterways Marinas has revealed its five-year growth strategy, with investments across its portfolio of marinas amounting to £3m in the first year.

Plans to create a tramway pilot project in Preston have been approved, and will see a stretch of the former Longridge to Preston railway line reinstated in Deepdale.