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“I started out my professional life working in Preston … Winckley Square was the place we went to sit and have lunch.“This is hopefully going to be similar – if not better – but the aspiration is to make a space that everybody wants to use,” Ms. Bland told the committee. Telling councillors it was vital that the new development went ahead, Mike Hesford said a “lack of investment by everybody” had left the location as a “partially derelict, rundown area”.
The design of the development has been influenced by the recommendations of an independent panel known as Places Matter. That resulted in changes from the initial blueprint, which had proposed a single U-shaped building. Committee member Sara Holmes welcomed the inclusion of 159 bicycle storage spaces within the development, but questioned why a space had not been provided for each dwelling. Clare Brand said it had been a matter of balancing that need with the ambitions for the courtyard – adding that the central location of the flats meant not all of the occupants were likely to have a bike.
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