Allied Lancaster Ltd, owner of Marketgate Shopping Centre, are seeking permission redevelop and partly demolish Lancaster Market to create what would be the city’s biggest single retail unit, unless […]
Greens condemn councillor’s censure over ASCO
Green Party councillors have hit out at a City Council Standards Committee case against Coun Jon Barry dating back to earlier this year, which has only just been heard and […]
Future plans for developing Lancaster Market
Despite its concerns about the costs of keeping Lancaster Market open, and the huge amount of research and feedback Lancaster City Council has already undertaken in their efforts to keep […]
Asco: Council’s response on Cushman & Wakefield contract.
The Virtual-Lancaster special report, “Bending Lancaster City Council to Its Will: The Asco File” posted on 24 May asked the City Council to answer 5 questions about its involvement with […]
Gagged Councillors can’t say ‘Asco’.
Lancaster City Councillors are afraid to say the word ‘Asco’ for fear of being dragged before the Standards Committee. The Committee met today to determine the fate of Cllr Jon […]
Green councillor accused of Lancaster Market 'leaks'
When Lancaster City Council’s Standards Committee meets later this month, Councillor Jon Barry is to be taken to task for talking to the local press about the fate of Lancaster […]
Bending Lancaster City Council to its will: The ASCO File
Report by Zoe Caldicott Additional research by the virtual-lancaster team Last updated to include comment from Council Leader Langhorn: 25 May 2010 How do private companies work behind the scenes […]
Asco faces winding-up petition for £25k unpaid bill
The supermarket ‘chain’ being courted by Lancaster City Council to take over Lancaster’s market building, ASCO Stores Ltd has had a winding-up petition lodged against it by Evolve Group who […]
Lancaster Market: Who are ASCO and who backs it?
Just before the full Lancaster City Council meeting that discussed the future of Lancaster Market, Asco Stores Ltd finally confirmed via the Morecambe Visitor what had long been rumoured: that […]
Conservative Candidate backs saving Lancaster Market
Eric Ollerenshaw, Lancaster and Fleetwood’s Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate, has backed the campaign to save Lancaster Market. Proposals to close the Market and relocate stallholders elsewhere in the District will […]