Transition City Lancaster, a local group inspired by the now worldwide Transition Town movement, is inviting everyone from the Lancaster area to particpate and share their experiences and ideas about […]
Survive and Thrive in the Recession
The Green Party’s economics spokesperson Molly Scott Cato will be giving a talk entitled Surviving and Thriving in a Recession at the Borough Pub, Dalton Square, Lancaster on Tuesday 11th […]
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” […]
Midland Hotel Development Celebrated
English Heritage has championed The Midland Hotel in Morecambe as one of England’s 20 best development schemes in historic places. A new English Heritage book, Constructive Conservation in Practice, available […]
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 […]
Traffic Management Cheaper than Bypass, says expert
Concerned that vital Department for Transport appraisal guidance has not been followed in planning for the planned Heysham M6 Link road, and the fact that there is no clear statement […]
Lawson’s Field Update
The City Council’s cabinet will be voting on whether to go ahead with selling off fields at Lawson’s Bridge (view a PDF map; view an aerial photo) on Tuesday 22 […]
Field of Dreams?
(Republished from the main VL site and this week’s newsletter): The Tender Brief for the sale of the land at Lawson’s Field in Scotforth was considered by the Council’s Overview […]
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 […]