HCA submits plan for 77 homes in Lancaster

Story Homes and Hollins Strategic Land are in discussions with stakeholders and residents before they submit a reserved matters planning application later in autumn for 170 homes.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and West Lancashire Council have published a draft Strategic Housing and Employment Land Market Assessment, a key stage in putting together its Single Spatial Framework to guide development up to 2037.

Lancashire firm Warden Construction has been awarded the contract to build Blackpool’s first five-star hotel by developer Coolsilk Property & Investment.

Lancaster City Council has granted planning permission for a replacement Aldi food store on the supermarket’s current site on Marine Road West, close to Morecambe town centre.

Lancashire County Council, Maple Grove and Brookhouse Group have gained planning consent for a 2.2m sq ft development at the Cuerden site near Bamber Bridge, including a 350,000 sq ft unit to be occupied by furniture giant Ikea.

Parker & Parker, operator of Porsche Centre Kendal, has made a major step forward in its long-held wish to upgrade to a larger site with the submission of a planning application for a site in Carnforth.

Commenting on the purchase, Gary Roberts, managing director of Praxis, defended the future of physical stores in the face of the rise of e-commerce, and described the current state of the retail industry as “Darwinism in action”.

Chorley Council is searching for a contractor to build a £7.1m digital office park to the North West of the Lancashire town, delivering 51,000 sq ft of space for start-ups and SMEs.

The University of Central Lancashire’s £200m regeneration has taken another step forward, with the submission of a planning application for its Student Centre and Civic Square project.