Paul Faulkner

3 days ago | lep.co.uk | Paul Faulkner

NHS trusts across Lancashire will be handed almost £16.5m to carry out safety upgrades to their facilities. The money is to be used for “small-scale, but important" works, the Department for Health and Social Care has said. The trust that runs the Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble hospitals will get the largest allocation in Lancashire from the nationwide £750m Estates Safety Fund.

3 days ago | blackpoolgazette.co.uk | Paul Faulkner

Union leaders have told the Reform UK ‘DOGE unit’ set to scrutinise the finances of Lancashire County Council that it will find little fat to cut – and will face a fight if it suggests sacking staff. They were reacting to the announcement that the authority is next in line to receive a visit from the party’s cost-cutting squad, which has been modelled on Elon Musk’s controversial Department of Government Efficiency in the United States.

3 days ago | lancs.live | Paul Faulkner

Lancashire County Council has been given a hint of what to expect from the self-styled ‘DOGE’ team that Reform UK is sending in to assess the authority’s finances. It is to become the second of the councils the party controls to receive a visit from the unit, which is based on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency within the Trump administration in the United States.

3 days ago | lancs.live | Paul Faulkner

A new housing development on the outskirts of Preston is set to include a school and care home – if it gets the go-ahead. Developer Wain Homes has submitted plans to build up to 167 properties – ranging between one and five bedrooms – on land off the Broughton bypass. Within the blueprint for the estate – to the west of James Towers Way and south of Whittingham Lane – land has been set aside for the care facility and a primary school.

3 days ago | blogpreston.co.uk | Paul Faulkner

Plans for a new estate in Leyland have been kicked out by councillors amid concerns that they would pose a danger to children walking to and from school. The 23-home development proposed for land off Cocker Lane in Moss Side was rejected by South Ribble Borough Council‚Äôs planning committee after locals lined up to warn of what they said would be the risk to school kids using the narrow route as a cut-through to class ‚Äď as well as to the residents living there.