Preston pushes city living with fresh strategy

Preston City Council has granted full planning permission for 113 homes and a 18,700 sq ft Aldi food store in Longridge.

Bovis Homes has won planning consent on appeal which will enable it to start work on a development of 385 homes at Penwortham Mill in Preston.

A five-storey student accommodation scheme including 190 apartments has been given the green light at Preston City Council’s planning committee.

A proposal to build a five-storey student accommodation scheme including 190 apartments is set for approval at Preston City Council’s planning committee on 9 February.

Schemes by housebuilders Prospect GB and Story Homes were approved by Preston City Council yesterday, totalling 413 houses across Longridge and Fulwood.

Preston City Council’s planning committee is due to meet on Thursday next week with recommendations to approve more than 600 new homes across the former Ridings Depot, Innovation House in Sizer Street and a major site north of Eastway.

The year gave a mix of both interesting individual buildings, and large-scale development sites coming forward. Designs got more adventurous, and masterplans got bigger.

Story Homes has started on site with the construction of 300 houses to the North of Preston, after signing a development agreement with the Homes & Communities Agency.

A development of 140 houses on the edge of Preston is set to go ahead without the inclusion of 40 affordable homes, after an error on a planning notice omitted a condition of approval requiring that 30% of the scheme be at less than market value.