Lancaster’s Quay during the floods caused by Storm Desmond Green Councillor for Castle Ward Nick Wilkinson has written to Sir Phillip Dilley at the Environment Agency asking for an explanation as […]
Over 5,000 objections to Cuadrilla’s fracking site application. Cuadrilla applies for second test site
Roseacre residents express their views on fracking Over 5,000 objections have been lodged with Lancashire County Council against Cuadrilla’s application to drill at a proposed site on agricultural land at […]
New Cuadrilla fracking applications: Lancashire now the front line in National Defense against fracking
Map showing locations, extent and approximate direction of horizontal wells for the proposed Preston New Road and Roseacre test sites http://frack-off.org.uk/ Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources have submitted new planning applications […]
Funding secured to bolster Morecambe’s Coastal Defences
Lancaster City Council has secured the long term future of key sections of Morecambe’s coastal defences following the award of capital funding of nearly £10m from the Environment Agency. This […]
County Council consults on plans to combat future flooding
Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Council have launched a new plan aimed at reducing the risk of floods causing damage to property or threat to life in the future. A […]
Government consults on new nuclear reactor design
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency has announced that they are progressing to the next phase of their assessment of a new nuclear reactor design for the […]
Fly Tippers back in action
Sunny weather clearly spells opportunity for fly tippers: a virtual-lancaster reader sent us these pictures, snapped this morning on the bridleway/cycletrack, halfway between Freeman’s Wood and Aldcliffe Lane, this morning. […]
Freeman’s Woods – Council’s response to waste concerns
Lancaster City Council has responded to concerns Virtual Lancaster raised about possible exposure of material contaminated by asbestos at the Freeman’s Wood site, an historic landfill site owned by Bermuda-registered company […]
Clean up local bathing water, council urges
Lancaster City Council is calling for everything possible to be done to improve the quality of bathing water in Morecambe Bay ahead of the introduction of new water quality standards. […]
Morecambe Bay Shellfish beds closed after sewage concerns
Local shellfish beds have been closed after United Utilities’ outfall pipe from Morecambe’s wastewater treatment works at Middleton became inoperable due to sandbank movement. As a result an old outfall […]