Brock Carmichael picked for £14m Burnley hospital  

National agency Homes England is looking for a partner to bring forward the latest phase of development at the 120-acre former Whittingham Asylum site near Preston.

The overhaul of Preston’s grade one-listed museum, gallery and library has progressed, with the submission of a planning application for the project.

The supermarket retailer has reworked plans for a store on the site of a derelict Indian restaurant, once the 17th century Rams Head Inn, off Liverpool Road, and submitted a fresh application to West Lancashire Council.  

Blackpool Council is looking to appoint a design practice to draw up a masterplan for a higher education facility next to Blackpool North train station, as part of the ongoing regeneration of Talbot Gateway. 

The council has granted planning consent to a sloped 21-storey residential block containing 80 apartments in the city centre, and a redevelopment of a derelict former orphanage.

The planning application for the £85m Eden Project North in Morecambe is now likely to appear at the end of this year or early 2021, after its delivery company initially targeted a submission this spring.

Lambert Smith Hampton has been appointed to lead an urban planning exercise in the Claremont area of Blackpool.

This year will see fresh services launched including a development map to complement news stories and branded content production for partners.

The floating visitor centre at the Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s Brockholes Nature Reserve is significant in its simplicity, writes Alban Cassidy of Cassidy + Ashton.