This article discusses the implementation of Preston's Public Space Protection Order and highlights upcoming regeneration projects in the city for 2025.
Preston 's Public Space Protection Order – relief for city centre’s perception but concern over unfair targeting as it comes into force.2025 is set to be a big year for Preston – with a raft of long-running regeneration projects set to come to a conclusion and several other schemes poised to get under way., whose first customers are expected through the doors before spring. Work on the £45.
8m scheme is nearing completion, with the occupants confirmed for eight of the development’s nine units having spent the final weeks of 2024 fitting out their premises. Preston City Council will be hoping the line-up of an eight-screen Arc Cinema and Hollywood Bowl, along with eateries Loungers, Cosmo, Las Iguanas, Ask Italian and Taco Bell – and a clutch of independently-run ‘street food’ outlets and a cocktail bar – will prove an attractive proposition to locals and folk from further afield. The operator of a competitive games outlet planned for the site has yet to be found. Over £600,000 in Corporation Street fines in two months but Lancashire County Council says ‘follow the signs’. The much-loved attraction closed in October 2021 for what was expected to be a three-year shutdown for a major refurbishment to turn it into the country’s first ‘blended’ museum, art gallery and library. However, the original timeframe slipped as a result of complications including the discovery of more asbestos than had been expected – and the latest estimated date for the venue’s return to the city’s cultural scene is next summer. The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) understands work on installing the museum’s displays will begin early in the new year.– more than a decade after the idea was first moote
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