Plans in for phase one of Preston industrial scheme

An update on Lancashire’s £430m City Deal, the county’s housing supply and the latest on Blackpool’s £1bn regeneration were on a wide-reaching agenda at Place North West’s Lancashire Development Update.

Blackpool’s Wilko store is due to be demolished in April to make way for an £18m extension to the tram network as part of Muse Developments and the council's Talbot Gateway regeneration project.

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.

The Preston-based company has been appointed the sole developer by Lancashire County Council to take forward the 160-acre Lancashire Central project nearly two years after Ikea pulled out of anchoring the site.

Plans for a £13m redevelopment of Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s Emergency Village have been finalised, ahead of the submission of a business case to draw down Government funding. 

A planning application has been submitted for 20 small industrial units on land at Beesley Farm in Barton.

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.

Three planning applications that would bring 168 homes to the area have been recommended for refusal, while Bellway Homes' proposal for 152 homes is set to be approved.