Homes plotted for North Lancaster strategic site

The scheme aims to protect up to 11,000 homes and businesses in and around Cleveleys in Lancashire from flooding by reducing coastal erosion.

The developer, part of Preston-based Eric Wright Group, has lodged revised plans for the mixed-use scheme in Burnley town centre due to market changes over the past year.

The infrastructure firm has relocated its support services from Lodge Bank Industrial Estate in Horwich to Levens House on Ackhurst Business Park. 

The council is to enter into a joint venture with the development arm of Eric Wright Group, that would see the acquisition and redevelopment of a key site within Blackburn’s town centre regeneration framework.

Steve Fogg is to step down as chairman of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, and will be replaced on an interim basis by David Taylor.

Leeds-based developer Priestley Homes has acquired an 89-bedroom development on Cable Street out of receivership for £6.5m. 

Part of the Concourse Shopping Centre’s upper level could be transformed into a WonderWorld entertainment complex, after a cinema was developed on the ground floor last year.

Contracts to secure a nine-screen cinema and new home for Wilko as part of the planned extension of the Blackpool shopping centre have been inked, while the council finalised a land acquisition to bring forward the project.