Proposed prison in Ulnes Walton Controversial plans for a new prison on the border of Chorley and Leyland have been given the go-ahead by the government.
Preston City Council leader Matthew Brown on sepsis, two week hospital stay and paramedics breaking down the doorReview: A visit to the Preston restaurant that’s Thai-ing up Lane EndsControversial plans for a new prison on the border of Chorley and Leyland have been given the go-ahead by the government.
To establish whether or not that was the case, the inquiry was reopened in March this year and heard further evidence from the MoJ, Chorley Council and locals opposing the prison. To that end, he found that building the prison would “continue to have an unacceptable impact on highway safety” – and so would be contrary to elements of local and national planning policy.
Local campaigners who have opposed the new jail since it was first mooted, said they were “extremely disappointed” by the decision – and were now considering whether there were any other legal options left open to them to challenge it. “It’s being built in the wrong place – it’d be better to put into a local environment where they could get to work easily.
The authority’s cabinet member for planning, Alistair Morwood, said of the decision that it was “disappointing that the concerns of local people haven’t been listened to”.
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