Whitehaven and St Annes among Coastal Revival Fund winners

Fylde Council has put in a funding bid for the restoration of the grade two-listed St Annes pier, as part of the Government’s wider Coastal Revival Fund.

Preston City Council has launched a consultation as it awaits the outcome of a Lottery funding bid to improve facilities at the city’s combined museum, gallery and library, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary.

After securing consent from Government this summer, energy company Cuadrilla will start hydraulic fracturing at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire in the next week.

Cuadrilla has received hydraulic fracturing permission from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy for its second horizontal shale exploration well at Preston New Road, Lancashire.

Cuadrilla has finished drilling the second horizontal shale gas well at its exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire.

Energy firm Cuadrilla has been granted a High Court injunction to stop trespassing at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire as it prepares to start the fracking process later this year.

Contractor Balfour Beatty has completed a sea defence project on the Fylde peninsula, described as the largest single investment in coastal flood defence by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.

Energy firm Cuadrilla, along with local farmers, has filed papers to the High Court as it seeks an injunction to stop trespassing at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire.

Renewable energy firm Atlantis has signed heads of terms with the Duchy of Lancaster to lease the land required to build a £400m tidal barrage and flood protection project on the Wyre estuary.