Details revealed of £85m Eden Project North

Contractor Bowmer & Kirkland is due to start on site this month at the £32m student centre and £28m civic square for the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

Road closures will begin in Preston this week to make way for an overhaul of highways around the Adelphi Quarter, part of the delivery of the University of Central Lancashire’s £60m Student Centre and civic square.

The council is looking to appoint a contractor to deliver 74 homes at Troutbeck Crescent in a project to replace five three-storey blocks considered “unfit for purpose”.

The conversion and extension of Ormskirk’s grade two-listed former Magistrates’ Court into a hotel, restaurant, and bar has been given the go-ahead by West Lancashire Council.

The supermarket chain’s 19,000 sq ft store in Blackburn is set to secure planning consent next week, the latest to come forward under Lidl’s expansion programme.

The site on Adelaide Street, which has outline planning permission for a five-storey, 203-bedroom hotel, has been brought to market.

The construction of 431 student bedrooms on the bank of the River Lune in Lancaster is on track to complete in August 2020, a project which has been planned since 2002.

The £1bn project to expand 18 miles of the A66 from single to dual carriageway, introduce new bypasses and junctions has been put out for public consultation.

Outline proposals have been submitted for a first, 81-acre phase of development at Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone, including close to 1m sq ft of industrial space, a sports village and a gateway access road.