Aldi to open long-awaited new Preston store as part of wider suburban shopping centre after highways roadblock is removed
It is expected that more than 5,500 new homes will be built in the North West Preston area in the 20 years up to the mid 2030s, under a masterplan for the area which was adopted back in 2017. Cottam is also identified as a “strategic site” where around 1,300 properties are - or already have been - created.
Addressing planning committee members, Peter Tooher, the agent for the Brickworks application - and executive director of Nexus Planning - thanked city council officers for their “tenacity” in helping to find a solution. However, he suggested that the county council’s position during discussions had been “unrealistic and perhaps unreasonable”.
“Indeed, our view is that they have confused their hats as landowner, highway authority and waste authority to the point where we have potentially ended up with the waste centre tail wagging the dog of the district centre,” Mr. Tooher said. Questioned on the likely timeframe for the development by committee chair Javed Iqbal, he added that it was “hard to pin a date” on completion, but said: “I would certainly hope that we would start…the access works this year - that’s a significant piece of work in itself, [which is] probably going to take about a year to 18 months.
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