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 […]
Register to speak on Centros applications
A special meeting of Lancaster City Council’s planning committee will take place on Monday and Tuesday of next week (October 13 and 14) to discuss the plans for the redevelopment […]
Centros Development Plans Savaged Again
As decision day approaches for the Centros planning applications for the canal corridor, two more prestigious national organisations have added their voices to the many already condemning the scheme. The […]
Centros Miller in action
Report by John Freeman: We thought you might be interested in these pictures from Bury St Edmunds courtesy of Bury Free Press, where developers have ridden rough shod over local […]
High Court strikes down planning committee “perceived impartiality” fallacy?
(Thanks to Max for this item): Outside and critical observers of local democracy have long had a problem with the idea that councillors on planning committees should not say or […]