Cllr Peter Pringle asked Lancashire County Council to re-paint the centre of road white lines on Tag Lane from St Margaret’s Church around the bend to opposite Hillcrest Avenue, as they are almost completely worn away. We are told that they will repaint the lines as soon as the weather permits.

Your local Lib Dem team would like to congratulate Denise Hartley of Intact on the award of MBE in the New Year’s Honours list.  This well deserved award comes at the same time as Intact is celebrating twenty years of serving the local community and coincides with the announcement of a Big Lottery grant of […]

Preston City Council cabinet has awarded a management contract to a new community group, a charity which has been set up called Tanterton Village Centre Ltd.  The legal details have to be sorted out still, but the most likely date for re-opening is 1st April.

Future Traffic Management “With over 5000 new homes being developed north of Hoyles lane and Lightfoot Lane there could eventually be a huge increase in traffic on Tag Lane” says County Councillor Bill Winlow. “We need to ensure that most of the newly generated traffic goes down Tom Benson Way and out onto the M55 […]

Two years of dithering by the controlling Labour group on Preston City Council has resulted in the city facing some of the most challenging decisions ever as the council risks running out of money. The City Council needs to balance the books in 2014, which means that they need to find savings of £3 million […]

Ingol and Tanterton Neighbourhood Council has been working in partnership with Preston City Council and a number of other agencies including ourselves to improve the Tanterton Green Sports Pitch which is very prone to flooding. Progress is as follows: A partnership project to renovate the Tanterton Green football pitch is underway and a detailed scheme […]

We hope there will soon be some good news about the re-opening of the Tanterton Community Centre. As you will remember, the Centre closed down in May this year, together with two other centres in other parts of Preston, after the Morecambe-based company that had been running them went into liquidation. In September, Preston City […]

The latest figures on the City’s finances show that we have reached the end of the road. The failure of Labour over the last two budgets to grasp the nettle and start implementing savings has resulted in them putting the Council’s finances almost beyond repair. They now have no alternative but to take radical and […]

Anybody who has been into Preston City Centre recently will have noticed the massive development underway in the Fishergate area. This project, which has received over £1million from the European Union, will see major changes in the way traffic flows around the City centre. Pavements will be much wider, trees planted and traffic controls put […]

So now we know that Northern Trust, though Rowland Homes, are to put in a planning application to build 175 homes on the Golf Course, round the back of New Rough Hey and The Avenue.  This proposal is totally at odds with the North West Preston Masterplan, as it would involve a huge number of […]