Brookhouse. Photo by Glyn Shentall. Used with kind permission. © All rights reserved. Lancaster City Council has begun an assessment of its 37 conservation areas, beginning with those in Bolton-le-Sands, […]
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 […]
Sainsbury’s Expansion Proposed
Above: What the revamped Sainsbury’s store would look like from the car park. Image courtesy Sainsbury’s. (Updated 23/1/09): Sainsbury’s has begun a public consultation event to ask for views on […]
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, […]
New Credit Crunch Initiatives Announced for Local Business
The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has just hosted an event with senior regional representatives from the major banks operating in the North West in an effort to co-ordinate support […]
Council to launch new sustainable communities strategy
The Lancaster District Local Strategic Partnership will be launching its new Sustainable Community Strategy on Friday (12th December) at The Platform in Morecambe. The strategy sets out the long term […]
Centros Campaigners To Plead Not Guilty
Four Lancastrians will plead not guilty to the charge of Aggravated Trespass on Thursday after being arrested following a protest at the offices of Centros, the development company behind the […]
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 […]
Protesters’ Statement to Centros
Centros… at the heart of urban degeneration… Why are we here? We’ve come to the offices of Centros today to peacefully demonstrate against the planned invasion of our town and […]
Bringing the House Down – Literally!
Going, going, gone! Workers this week demolished a house on the corner of Torrisholme and Oxford Roads in Skerton to make way for a larger BP garage. Planning permission was […]