SAVE’s scheme for Lancaster’s Canal Corridor site, drawn by Richard Griffiths Architects After news that developer Centros has pulled out of the forthcoming Public Inquiry into its controversial Canal Corridor […]
Centros Scheme: Objections Deadline Looms
(Updated 8/3/09): The deadline to submit objections to the proposed Centros development for Lancaster’s Canal Corridor is Monday 9th March. Developers Centros have not yet submitted their case, but the […]
Questions Continue Over Centros Development
(Updated 18/2/09): Local development campaign group It’s Our City has urged caution over to reports that the future of the £150 million Canal Corridor development for Lancaster proposed by developers […]
Centros Canal Corridor Plans In doubt?
(Updated18/2/09): The Lancaster Guardian reports that the future of the £150 million scheme to transform Lancaster’s shopping centre has been thrown into doubt after developers Centros would not confirm whether […]
Campaign Group Delight at Canal Corridor Plan Inquiry
News that plans for the development of Lancaster’s Canal Corridor will go to public inquiry have been met with delight by campaign group It’s Our City . Folowing calls from […]
Council “Wastes Money” on Centros Inquiry
Green councillors have condemned Lancaster City Council’s proposal to spend £100,000 on the Centros public inquiry into the canal corridor development (see news story) at a time when the Council […]
Canal Corridor Plans Go To Public Enquiry
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Hazel Blears has decided that Lancaster City Council’s resolution to grant planning permission for the controversial Canal Corridor North planning application, […]
Protesters Take Fight to Centros Office
On Monday 1st December, nine campaigners from Lancaster travelled to London to protest at the offices of Centros, the development company behind the plans for the Lancaster canal corridor shopping […]
Centros Decision Dismays Lancaster Residents
Residents development campaign group It’s Our City, which has proposed several different uses for the land that forms Lancaster’s massive and controversial Centros urban development plan, says it is “disappointed” […]
Council Votes for Centros
After months of debate, public protest, planning objections from all manner of organisations including existing retailers large and small, Lancaster City Council’s Planing Committee did what it was expected to […]