Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement

jennings ford direct
Sponsored by
Ford Direct – Used cars
Backed by Ford.
http://www.jenningsforddirect.co.uk
 
 
Tuesday, 2nd December 2008

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the n/a site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

Sign In
Register

Tithebarn jobs bonanza predicted



Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 04 October 2008
By Matthew Squires
An estimated 1,300 new jobs will be created in Preston's revamped £700m city centre, experts behind the plan today predicted.
In total, 4,000 people will work in the city centre and the new jobs in the completed development will boost Preston's economy by £15m, claim the developers.

Consultants at Ramboll Whitbybird, who have drawn up a environmental statement, setting o
ut the impact the development will have on the city, believe the ambitious project will create at least 824 full time jobs.

Cinemas, shops, cafes and businesses will create up to 540 new jobs. Many of those, the firm suggests, could be taken up by the city's unemployed.

In total, 3,922 people will work in the completed development. Ramboll Whitbybird expects many of those to go to displaced workers brought in by companies from other areas, or to workers already employed in the area.

But the creation of a Preston Office Quarter and other potential projects around the Tithebarn area could create thousands more jobs.

City council leader Ken Hudson said: "One of our key priorities is to tackle worklessness and providing that number of jobs is a welcome boost for the city."

>> Tithebarn will not be a ghost town

>> Vote in our latest web poll

Preston and Proud



The full article contains 212 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 06 October 2008 12:28 PM
  • Source: n/a
  • Location: Preston
 
Prev
1
2
Next
Last
1

Kells95e,

preston 06/10/2008 10:00:49
Now now, don't you start upsetting the poor little benefit scroungers with nasty words like "jobs" and "work". We don't want them getting stressed at the prospect of having to earn some money, instead of the rest of us lining their pockets !!
824 jobs ?? H'mmm, how about a little experiment were 824 people get their benefits cancelled and see if the 824 jobs get filled ??
Call me Mr Optimist, but i bet they do !!!!
2

mediator,

06/10/2008 13:03:18
kells95e - i agree but its too much hassle for the ones who are in employment who find it too hard to think of these kinds of solutions as pushing a pen would burn too much calories and they'd be exhausted
3

mediator,

06/10/2008 13:03:25
kells95e - i agree but its too much hassle for the ones who are in employment who find it too hard to think of these kinds of solutions as pushing a pen would burn too much calories and they'd be exhausted
4

David C,

06/10/2008 13:06:58
But how many Jobs will be lost? about 1,300. Its all claim and counter claim. How about facts, true facts.
5

emjharrison1984,

06/10/2008 14:08:51
I fully agree and cannot wait for the re-development to begin! Bigger firms are more likely yo come to our wonderful "city" which may actually pay high salaries! Rather then people looking at it like a hinder they need to look at it has a good thing, bringing money to Preston, bringing us into modern times, also the run down areas in town will be used once again. It will be amazing if we get people from all over coming to our "city" rather then us going to Liverpool or Manchester etc, this development will actually help our city status!
6

Kells95e,

preston 06/10/2008 15:06:14
As has been said before, Prestons claim to be a city died the day the docks closed and the haulage came off the trains, don't get me wrong, we're still a very nice large town and anything that get's the local economy moving is to be welcomed, however, i wait with baited breath on the jobs prospects, (sorry benefit scroungers, didn't mean to swear!!)
7

River,

06/10/2008 18:03:43
Do a google search on Ramboll Whirlybird, nice to know exactly who these people are.

Jobs created in one shop are usually at the expense of jobs in another shop - people don't suddenly have extra cash to spend because there are extra shops.
8

Sam Tana,

Ribbleton 06/10/2008 18:47:48
Kells95e - give it up, that argument is lost. Preston's a city. Get used to it.
9

Sam Tana,

Ribbleton 06/10/2008 18:50:08
The jobs will be mainly low pay retail jobs. We can't have a viable economy by just selling stuff to one another - somebody actually has to make something in the first place, and the only people doing that these days are the Chinese!
10

alderkel,

06/10/2008 20:46:22
You stick by your beliefs kells95, My old man use to take me to the docks, happy days, thriving businesses, banter, little earners here and there, happy days!
Use to watch the old steam trains at the back of leyland rd as well, happy days !!
Prev
1
2
Next
Last

 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
RSS Feed of this article's comments
Delivery formats: RSS, Atom, Javascript & Email
 
  

 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.