Among applications registered with the city council this week are plans to convert a former Muslim Cultural Centre into a home of multiple occupancy, plans to build industrial units on a gym car park, and to create new homes from farm buildings.
To find out more about what developers are proposing, check out the pages below.
5. Inchcape Jaguar Land Rover showroom, Bluebell Way, Preston
Inchcape want to make slight alterations to the look of their showroom, which is being rebuilt after a major fire. This includes the omission of wall cladding around and above the customer entrance doors on the front elevation. This will be replaced with new wall cladding and fully glazed glazed entrance doors and windows. Photo: Inchcape/Preston Council
6. 21 Fishergate Hill, Preston
Next Gen Coliving want to change 21 Fishergate Hill from a Religious and Educational Institution to a 10-bedroom house of multiple occupation with a 1.2m high fence to the front boundary. The property is in a conservation area, and used to house the Muslim Cultural Centre. Photo: Google
7. 198e Miller Road, Preston
Watson Saunders & Associates Ltd want to change the use of this unit from retail to ahot food takeaway, and install an extractor flue to the rear. Photo: Google
8. Land at Swillbrook Farm, Rosemary Lane, Catforth
Lindum Yates Ltd has made a prior notification submission regarding changing an agricultural building into five dwellings. A planning statement says the proposed development will provide two three-bedroom dwellings and three two-bedroom dwellings through the conversion of the existing floorspace. The existing roof pitch and frame will be retained, and the external block walls will be retained and be rendered. Additionally, the steel sheet roof will be retained to give an "agricultural look". Photo: Google