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The problem lighting at the Holiday Inn Express at Walton Summit (image: SHD Lighting Consultancy Limited, via South Ribble Borough Councilk planning portal)

Hotel apologises after car park floodlights ‘lit up homes like a football pitch’

The forthcoming Preston Youth Zone, as viewed from the bus station opposite (image: Elephant Visual)

Search for 'patrons' to help with the running costs of Preston's new Youth Zone

Some of the planning highlights from this week.

6 planning applications registered in South Ribble this week

County Hall in Preston has scaffolding placed on the back and sides of the building for roof repair work. Photo: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

Scaffolding up at County Hall in Preston - this is why

The pre-vaccine Covid era saw restrictions and rules change regularly

Blackpool’s bid to escape "blanket" Covid restrictions was ignored, leader says

Speaker of the Commons, Lindsay Hoyle
(Photo by Yui Mok / POOL / AFP) (Photo by YUI MOK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Chorley MP defends himself over visit to Israel and West Bank

One of the access points to the new Lancashire Central development will be from the roundabout at the end of the M65, close to the DVSA enforcement check site (image: Kelvin Lister-Stuttard)

Scrapped IKEA store replaced with industrial, retail and leisure scheme

Protesters form a blockade outside Eaton mission systems in Wimborne near Bournemouth (Credit: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)

Pro-Palestine protesters block entrances to BAE Systems sites

Some highlights from this week's planning portal.

8 Preston planning applications registered this week

A smoke plume is still visible at the former Supaskips site which has been on fire since Sunday.

Council to spend up to £262k to demolish buildings at SupaSkips fire site

The Spar in Plungington.

Spar's 24-hour alcohol licence application opposed by police and council leader

The planned entrance to the Botany Hill development (image coutersy of FIREM)

Botany Bay industrial development approved as homes are swapped for jobs

Currently, there are only two lanes on Bluebell Way heading towards the roundabout junction, except for a short filter lane for M6 traffic, which starts shorly before the lights

M6 junction revamp and new traffic lights as part of industrial estate plan

The former Krush club on Friargate did not survive the early part of the pandemic

Former Preston nightclub set to become adult gaming arcade

The future of a large part of the Cuerden site, which was earmarked for an IKEA store until 2018, could be decided by county councillors this week

Axed IKEA site at the centre of legal row as development decision looms

All of the apartments within the striking building were going to be for rent - but not any more (image: Buttress Architects)

Major change to 'hexagonal' Preston apartment block just months after approval
A proposed Preston apartment block that was to be made up entirely of rental properties has morphed into an open market development of flats for sale - before a brick has been laid.

Larches House, pictured prior to its recent renovation

Housing bid for garden of historic Preston property thrown out by councillors

The pre-vaccine Covid era saw restrictions and rules change regularly

Lancashire was seen by government as more 'Covid co-operative' than Manchester

The scene of a major fire in Lancaster on Sunday on the Lune Industrial Estate. Picture by Gary Watts.

Dramatic drone pictures show smoke pouring from building during major fire

Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young MP with Lancashire's long-awaited devolution deal

Two thirds of Lancashire's districts call for devolution delay and 'review'

Gary and Sheela Harper have traded taking it easy for serving the people of Cottam - along with goldendoogle Bob

Post office's future secured after retired couple step in to keep it going

The development will include townhouses and apartments (image: DK-Architects via Preston City Council planning portal)

Almost 400 new homes coming to ex-mill site close to Preston city centre

FILE PHOTO Carol Vorderman.

Carol Vorderman outraged over King's claim on Lancashire money

Almost 15 percent of Lancashire households are classed as 'fuel poor'

Help for Lancashire households struggling with energy costs

The payment is to help with energy bills.

The central Lancashire postcode where you can claim Cold Weather Payments

The Harris Quarter could soon get a new night-time look

Preston city centre revamp plan includes road closure and atmospheric lighting

Po Wong has applied to change the use of the first floor from a seating area for a cafe to a flat, including alterations to the shop front.
The cafe business is relocating elsewhere in the city.

7 planning applications registered in Preston this week
Retail shops are taking a hit in this week’s planning application list for Preston.

How it will look from Tenterfield Street

New images show how £45m cinema centre will look

The stretch of Garstang Road that experienced weeks of gridlock because of the way temporary traffic lights were operated during work on a new housing estate (images: National World (main) and Pixabay)

Action taken over Preston roadworks that 'caused chaos'

United Utilities say repairs to the burst water main have been completed but Lancashire County Council have advised “that a specialist road surfacing material must be used to reinstate the road back to its original condition” - meaning the road could remain closed until December 11. (Picture by Carl Stein)

Fishergate Hill to remain closed for weeks despite burst water pipe being fixed

[From left] Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young, Blackpool Council leader Lynn Williams, Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Phil Riley, Lancashire County Council leader Phillippa Williamson and, behind them, their respective government and council teams at the devolutionn deal signing ceremony at Lancaster Castle (image: Martin Bostock Photography)

Is Lancashire's devolution deal "great" or "a dud"? Let the debate begin...

Preston Town Hall staged an extraordinary meeting over the Gaza conflict

Preston councillors back call for "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza conflict

[From left] Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Phil Riley, Lancashire County Council leader Phillippa Williamson, Levelling Up Minister Jacob Young and Blackpool Council leader Lynn Williams after the devolution deal was signed at Lancaster Castle (image: Martin Bostock Photography)

'Milestone' moment at Lancaster Castle sees Lancashire devolution deal signed

A devolution deal is being signed today in Lancashire

Historic devolution deal to be signed in Lancashire today by minister

Dr,.Adam Janjua (right) says it is vital the exodus of experienced GPs is stopped

'Honest conversation' needed with patients about what GPs can do, doctor says

Leslie Eastham (left) has found friends at his local warm hub

How Lancashire's warm hubs are providing friendship as well as as sanctuary

Lancashire County Council leader Phillippa Williamson (top left) and Blackpool Council Council leader Lynn Williams (bottom right) see the proposed devolution deal very differently from South Ribble Borough Council leader Paul Foster (top right) and the leader of Preston City Council Matthew Brown

Demand for referendum on Lancashire devolution deal

Inspectors visited over the summer

The 54 ways the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals have been told to improve

Funeral director Geoff Whalley has applied for permission to demolish the derelict Much Hoole Methodist Church in Moss House Lane and build seven houses in its place, with a car park to one side.
The land is in Green Belt and abuts the Woodland Burial site.

Church demolition and hotel expansion : 7 planning applications in South Ribble

Inside the Backlot Cinema - this will be fitted with an IMAX screen and will be one of 9 screens in the new complex

9 pictures that show how Backlot Cinema is progressing on site

Cars parked on the motorway bridge on matchdays

This is what's happening to end football traffic "mayhem"

Is Lancashire finally on the cusp of a devolution deal?

Lancashire devolution deal proposal published as part of autumn statement

The land on Babylon Lane in Heath Charmock, where 40 homes could be built (image: Chorley Council)

Village housing and brass band building knocked back over sewage flood fears

The rural lanes of Penwortham could one day look very different

Fury as government approves 1,100 new homes - after councillors rejected them

The former Jubilee Social Club is set to be revamped (image: Google)

Restaurant, takeaway and dessert bar plan for former Preston social club

The rural lanes of Penwortham could one day look very different

Fury as government approves 1,100 new homes - after councillors rejected them

Chorley's proposed new civic square would provide a focal point for events and be a place to meet

Chorley's £20m town centre facelift is back on after Levelling Up Fund boost

The new building that will, if approved, re-house the Royal Preston's existing Day-of-Surgery Admissions unit (image: Gilling Dod Architects, via Preston City Council planning portal)

Royal Preston plans new surgical unit to help take pressure off A&E

County Cllr Yousuf Motala has quit Labour with stinging criticism of Sir Keir Starmer

Preston councillor quits Labour and brands the party 'racist' over Gaza response

What can be done to bring empty homes back into use?

This is how many homes in Preston, South Ribble and Chorley are empty

James Eager, Tom Bailey, County Councillor Aidy Riggott, Phoebe Graham and Lancashire County Cricket Club's Mark Chilton as building work began on the club's new ground in Farington (main image: BDP via Lancashire County Council's planning portal; inset: Lancashire County Council)

New Lancashire Cricket Club ground could be hosting games within two years

From back left to front right: Susan Reid, Clare Farrell, Valerie Brown, Tracey Mallaghan, Samantha Smithson, Holly Blyth-Brentnall, Jessica Agar, Miriam Instone, Eleanor (Gully) Bujak.

Lancashire grandmother who smashed up HSBC is cleared of criminal damage

Ten years' worth of pothole repair cash has been laid out for Lancashire

Lancashire gets pothole-filling boost from axed HS2 cash

Preston Town Hall

Future of city centre bar to be reviewed -after owner assaulted customer

Andy Walker, chief exceutive of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, welcomes Lieutenant General Tom Copinger-Symes CBE, Deputy Commander, UK Strategic Command, to the county for the launch of the Lancashire Cyber Partnership

Lancashire preparing to lead the way in cyber defence as ‘one of the good guys’