Blackburn seeks green light for Bank Hey

The Preston-based construction firm has been selected to build a 24,000 sq ft hospital at the industrial park at Buckshaw Village in Chorley and is due to start work next month. 

Developer Westchurch Homes plans to build 39 affordable homes in Newton-with-Scales, five miles west of Preston, and has submitted an application to Fylde Council.

Blackburn with Darwen Council is preparing to submit a planning application in “the next couple of days” for the restoration and refurbishment of historic buildings, and improved public space, in the Northgate area of the town.

The council is pushing ahead with plans to deliver 15 affordable homes on the site of the former pub, located at the corner of Station Road and McKenzie Street in Bamber Bridge.  

A subsidiary of the real estate investor is moving ahead with plans to redevelop Stanley Park Golf Club into 250 holiday homes and an Adrenalin World adventure park, requesting a site study to be undertaken. 

Trafford Housing Trust plans to build up to 330 homes and a Lidl supermarket on the 60-acre site in Preston, shrinking an earlier proposal from Bovis Homes that won approval in 2017.

Carlisle-based Kingmoor Park Properties has sold the 12-acre Bridgewater Business Park to a development consortium that plans to build 230 affordable homes north of the site.

The 38,000 sq ft food store on Main Drive in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, has been sold out of receivership from a company owned by Marcus Worthington Group, whose construction and property arms went into administration last year.