Phil Smith

From bank to bookies - the former HSBC on Hough Lane in Leyland, which closed in August 2022 (image: Google)

'Fourth betting shop in 50 yards’ for town centre after bank switch approved

'Get on with it!': Hurry-up call for NHS bosses to deliver a new Royal Preston

How some of the commercial units approved for the former Leyland test track site will look

Drive-thru restaurant and petrol station coming to the old Leyland test track

Should new homes in Preston, Chorley and South Ribble be built to more exacting environmental standards than national rules require?

How Central Lancashire tried - but failed - to make new homes net zero by 2016

South Ribble Council reveals new logo after residents were asked what they think

The land at the entrance to the new estate on the former Lostock Hall gasworks site had been earmarked for shops - but now looks set to get more housing

Developer criticised for ditching shops plan on South Ribble estate

Junction of School Lane and Golden Hill Lane, Leyland

Call for traffic light changes in South Ribble

Is a cash boost on the horizon for Leyland?

What could Leyland do with £25m - and will it ever see the cash?

The council is trying to cement its green credentials

South Ribble sets target date to stop using throwaway plastic

Tress outside South Ribble Council's headquarters in Leyland - many more could soon be coming to every corner of the borough

This is how many trees are set to be planted in South Ribble

Residents say the planned development would be out of character with the existing properties in the area

'Build bungalows if you want planning permission,' developer told

A 'Planning for Real'-based event at South Ribble Borough Council's headquarters

South Ribble parks: public consultation is not being run by housing association,...

Shruggs Wood

Save Leyland's Shruggs Wood urge campaigners

Councils like South Ribble have limited powers to sanction councillors found to have breached standards

Should councillors be forced to apologise in public if they are found to have fa...

South Ribble already has a strong band of volunteers

Calling all volunteers to help create a better borough in South Ribble

The public is to be asked about plans to link up South Ribble's larger parks - and is also consulting on the future on some of its smaller open spaces

Parks plan sparks public anger as consultation is launched in South Ribble
Residents in South Ribble have lined up to demand answers about the future of some of the borough’s small parks and play spaces.
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Playground campaigners, councillor Matthew Tomlinson, with Aniela Bylinski Gelder, centre, and Kim Snape, the prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate for South Ribble.

Leyland's playgrounds' battle gaining momentum

South Ribble plans to better connect its green spaces

Green links plan does not put smaller open spaces under threat, meeting hears

South Ribble Borough Councillors, Councillor Phil Smith, cabinet member for Regeneration and Leisure (quoted above), Councillor Graham Walton, cabinet member for Neighbourhoods and Streetscene, Councillor Karen Walton; and Lancashire County Councillor Michael Green, Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Environment and Planning

South Ribble war memorial in Lostock Hall to become a community meeting area

Councillor Graham Walton; ABL Healths Mel Cooper; Councillor Phil Smith; ABL Healths Paul Rayner; and (seated) Councillor Karen Walton

South Ribble Council holds gym induction at Farington Park

Mad Hatter was mad for a top hat

Get into character for the Leyland Festival

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Bamber bridge resident Janet Cook is concerned about the state of the new pavements, footpaths and placement of new tree planters on Station Road, Bamber Bridge.

Anger at state of Â£3.5m Bamber Bridge pavement improvement project

The plants are on sale in Asda until January.

Could pineapple plants be the cure for snoring nightmare?

The new sculpture turning heads at the roundabout at Schleswig Way and Longmeanygate

Leyland's new gateway sculpture is a real Bobby dazzler!

Retail guru Kate Hardcastle at the business workshop held at Brockholes

Consumer guru Kate Hardcastle to speak at Preston business event

Photo: David Hurst
Leyland Leisure Centre

Leisure centre axe still under discussion

South Ribble Borough Council
Bamber Bridge Iron Tree plaques unveiling
Jim & Dorothy Martin

200 names added to wall of fame
Another 200 names have been added to Bamber Bridge's new '˜wall of fame'.
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Photo: David Hurst
Leyland Railway Station former ticket office.

Exciting new Â£3m plans unveiled for Leyland town centre

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Hollywood comes to Hough Lane

Health Kicks Kitchen in Lane Ends, Preston

Health kicks on offer at new Preston cafe

PHOTO. KEVIN McGUINNESS.
Bamber Bridge Leisure Centre

Secret report proposes closing leisure centres in huge shake-up of services

Site access: Homes would be reached off Leyland Lane, rather than a roundabout

Councillors urge rethink over road into major new Leyland housing development

County councillors Matthew Tomlinson and John Fillis have announced that half a million pounds is pledged to start work on the Leyland Loop cycling and exercise trail

Frustration mounting over Leyland Loop delay

Front row: Baxi employees Mike Baines, Dan Richardson, Leo Billington, Peter West, Peter Mitchinson.
Back row: South Ribble Borough Council Community Works Manager Howerd Booth, Baxis Ashlea Arnold, Baxis Nigel Pickles, and South Ribble Borough Councillor Phil Smith.

Town's new garden is blooming fabulous

An artist's impression of how the regeneration work will look in Station Road, Bamber Bridge

Major road overhaul in town centre gets underway

Leyland My Neighbourhood Forum, at South Ribble Council's Civic Centre

Forums are '˜useless' says chairman

Old Mill Court, Walmer Bridge. Image from Google

Village history reflected in Â£100,000 centre makeover

Tree-mendous welcome to town

County Cllr John Fillis, Cllr Phil Smith and South Ribble Community Works Manager Howerd Booth at the top of Station Road, Bamber Bridge, where the new 'warm welcome to Bamber Bridge' sign will go.

Spades in ground as work starts on Â£3m regeneration

Twin town agreement between South Ribble and Schleswig Flensburg

Post-Brexit plea to renew German '˜twin town' links

South Ribble Council leader Margaret Smith

BREAKING: Council leader quits

Councillor Margaret Smith

Police end investigation into South Ribble councillors

South Ribble council leader
Margaret Smith

Police probe South Ribble Council leader for alleged failure to declare business...

New South Ribble summer events guide

Something for everyone in the summer guide

Interior designer Sarah Pickard, 32, with Coun Phil Smith

Business owners urged to grow with Coastal funding

South Ribble Council Civic Centre, Leyland

Claims of '˜toxic culture' of bullying and intimidation at scandal-hit council

Station Road, Bamber Bridge

Â£3.5m facelift to give town a tree-mendous new look

Work on St Catherine's Park, Lostock Hall. (L-R) Cliff Hughes, Chairman of the board of Trustees at St Catherines Hospice; St Catherines nurse Samantha McCann; Stephen Greenhalgh, Chief Executive of St Catherines Hospice; Councillor Alan Ogilvie, South Ribble Borough Councils Armed Forces Champion; and Councillor Phil Smith, South Ribble Borough Council cabinet member for Regeneration and Leisure.

Picnic time in new park

Chairman of Leyland Warriors, Phil Roberts with Secretary Peter Kearns at the Malt Kiln Fold clubhouse

Thieves steal disabled rugby players' wheelchair wheels

Trevor Hemmings with Grand National winner Many Clouds

Hemmings could be on Cloud nine!

Photo Neil Cross
Gritter Phil Smith at the winter road safety campaign launch at Highways Englands new 36-metre-wide salt barn in Garstang, with a capacity for 8,000 tonnes of salt

Time to show true grit

Lostock Hall Memorial Band at Leyland United Reformed Church's Christmas Service before their Christmas Light Switch-On in 2010

Light up Leyland: Calendar helps raise money to improve Christmas lights

WORK: Hospice staff, councillors and council officers cut the first sod in the new park

First sod cut as work starts on new South Ribble park

Nigel Stewart from the Creative Network which, along with South Ribble Council, is organising Longton Live

The Long good weekend