Social houses under direct Preston City Council ownership will be bought on the new Horrocks Mill development. The city council has signed the first-stage of a deal with Onward Homes, […]

Both Preston Guild Hall’s Grand Hall and Charter Theatre contain RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete), Blog Preston can reveal. Specialist RAAC engineers – Curtins Consulting Engineers – have now completed […]

A renewable energy centre has opened in Preston city centre. Energy company BGreenn is behind the initiative, which is aimed at informing households and businesses about the benefits of adopting […]

The construction material dubbed “crumbly concrete” – which caused a chaotic start to the new academic year at dozens of schools across the country – is now suspected to be […]

Preston’s under-construction city centre cinema and leisure complex is now set to open in early 2025, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) can reveal. Building work on the development had […]

Preston residents are less depressed, more content and financially better off in the wake of a flagship council policy designed to strengthen the local economy. That was the conclusion of […]

Steelwork is being installed at Preston’s Animate leisure complex. It’s the latest milestone in the £45 million+ scheme, one of six major projects planned under Preston’s Harris Quarter Towns Fund […]

A delegation of Whitehall officials will travel to Lancashire this month to start preliminary talks over how the county can secure a long-awaited devolution deal. The meeting with mandarins could […]