A call for Lancashire County Council to support the “traffic light system” of regulation for fracking sites has once again sparked a row over the authority’s stance on the subject – and the procedure for debating it.
A developer has been told that it cannot change the height of a fence between its new estate and a public footpath, because of concerns over crime and anti-social behaviour.
Residents in Buckshaw Village say they have been forgotten about in plans for new subsidised bus services which will be running through parts of Chorley from next week.
A housebuilder has been told that it must send construction traffic for a new estate in Chorley through a neighbouring development where residents are already living – and not down a narrow country lane.
A debate over the future of a committee which examines rights of way issues in Lancashire led to a row about what the group has achieved in its near 20-year history.
Around 6,000 square metres of new industrial space is set to be created in Lancashire if the government gives the go-ahead to an EU-funded project to boost the county’s small and medium-sized businesses.
The education status of more than 2,000 16 and 17-year-olds across Lancashire is unknown – in spite of the fact that it is a legal requirement for them to be undertaking some form of study or training until their 18th birthdays.
An area of open space will be maintained amidst a planned development in Farington Moss after South Ribble Council rejected a chance to cash-in by allowing the whole site to be used for new homes.
Over 1,100 tonnes of salt was saved by Lancashire County Council last winter after it reduced the minimum temperature which had to be forecast before deploying its gritting lorries.
Electric bin lorries could one day be silently cruising the streets of South Ribble – but the plug-in rubbish removers are not advanced enough to bring them to the borough just yet, councillors have been told.
Two school bus services are set to come off the road in Central Lancashire - because they have not been used by pupils entitled to free transport for the past two years.
A mother who has been campaigning to protect a short break service for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has welcomed a pledge by Lancashire County Council to reconsider the scheme’s future.
Three sub-regional groups will be set up to oversee child protection activity in different parts of Lancashire when a county-wide safeguarding board is established in the autumn.
