Working in partnership with Burnley Council and Barnfield Construction, the university is set to win planning consent for a student accommodation scheme on the site of the Neptune pub at Sandygate Square.
The architect has provided more details behind a £150m masterplan in Fleetwood, covering two sites and including more than 350,000 sq ft of food & beverage, leisure, commercial, hotel, and employment.
Work has started on the £18.8m extension of Lancaster University Management School, with contractor John Turner Construction expecting to complete the five-storey building for the 2020/21 academic year.
Proposals to redevelop the site of Burscough FC’s stadium and to build a new facility for the football club have moved forward, with a decision on the plans now resting with the Secretary of State.
Lancashire County Council has opened the tender for a main contractor as it seeks to deliver the Heyhouses link road.
The building of a dual carriageway between Windy Harbour and Skippool near Poulton-le-Fylde has edged closer, after the Planning Inspectorate agreed to examine Highways England’s plans.
Eric Wright Group has started building the long-awaited extension of Chorley’s Market Walk shopping centre, nearly two years after a £17m funding package was signed off for the project.
Developer Chancerygate and contractor Pochins have reached practical completion on the £3.3m Eaton Point, a 54,000 sq ft speculatively-developed industrial scheme which forms part of the wider Matrix Park project.
The local authority has launched a market-sounding exercise as it seeks to bring developers and investors on board to deliver major employment sites within the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone.
A 33,000 sq ft extension of Wigan’s Wrightington Hospital, featuring educational and medical research space, has secured planning consent with Interserve understood to be in discussions to deliver the project.
