The football club has been given the go-ahead for work at its Dodney Drive training ground in Lea, providing an interim solution for players who still have "a number of years" to wait for a replacement facility to be built at Ingol Golf Course.
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.
A sloped 21-storey residential scheme reminiscent of Manchester's Urbis, and a redevelopment of a listed site criticised for its "violently different" architecture, are due to be approved in Preston.
More than 200 homes across three developments in Preston have received consent, including an overhaul of a city centre pub, a chapel and parish hall for Broughton, and a last-minute approval in Fulwood.
A consultation over the future of Preston city centre has opened, with the public urged to give feedback on proposals including 1,600 homes in Stoneygate as part of a 15-year regeneration plan.
A joint venture between HBD and Barnfield Developments has submitted plans for its 18-acre development, known as East, off Junction 31A of the M6 in Preston.
Clearance work on the site of a proposed leisure scheme in Preston’s Harris Quarter, which is being brought forward by Maple Grove and Muse, has completed with a revised planning application expected in spring.
The Heaton Group’s conversion of an office block on Ormskirk Road into 130 apartments is due to complete before June 2021, the developer said as it released further images of Studio KMA’s designs for the project.
At a recent planning committee, of four proposals which could have delivered 320 homes to the market, only one was approved despite the council motioning for its deferral.
The second phase of the redevelopment of a former brickworks in Preston is expected to start on site this year, including 114,000 sq ft of retail and commercial space.
