Samlesbury Enterprise Zone
On the Farington Cricket project, the council is working in partnership with Lancashire Cricket Club to develop proposals for a new, year-round high-quality sports facility in central Lancashire, bringing together elite and community cricket in one development.
It would provide new professional standard facilities for the club and be a valuable asset for the local community with multiple benefits to health and wellbeing. A planning application is currently being finalised for submission.
Meanwhile, the Samlesbury Enterprise Zone continues to move forward,
Preston Station
with assets already located there including the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, which will help to drive forward technology and productivity improvements.
A council spokesperson says: “Already home to world-class businesses, there continues to be strong potential occupier interest in this site and the county council are currently working with those parties to understand their accommodation requirements and work together to bring them to this exciting and developing site.”
CITY GETS ANIMATED
Work on Animate, Preston’s £40m city centre cinema and leisure centre complex, is set to begin later this year.
The news comes after The Arc Cinema was named as the second anchor tenant for the scheme which is being delivered by Maple Grove Developments.
The Leach Rhodes Walker-designed mixed-use scheme was given the go ahead by Preston Council’s planning committee earlier this year. It is set to open its doors to visitors in 2024.
The Arc Cinema has taken 29,500 sq ft offering eight screens and joins fellow anchor tenant Hollywood Bowl, which committed to a 16-lane, 20,300 sq ft leisure attraction last November.
Located on the city’s former indoor market, Animate will also include a food hall, new restaurants and bars and public realm.
The scheme is projected to stimulate economic growth and development in Preston and is expected to generate more than £7m of extra economic activity annually while creating 140 full-time equivalent jobs.
It is one of six major projects planned under Preston’s Harris Quarter Towns Fund Investment Programme. The city was awarded £20.9m from the government’s national Towns Fund initiative in March last year.
Andrew Dewhurst, development director at Maple Grove Developments, says: “With planning now secured, working with Preston City Council, we now have the confidence to
press on with the detailed design in readiness for a construction start.
“In addition to The Arc Cinema, four of the restaurant units are now under offer and we expect to be able to announce more names.”
Brian Gilligan, director at The Arc Cinema, says: “Animate will be an amazing leisure destination when we and our neighbours in the scheme open in 2024 and its location in the heart of Preston’s city centre fits perfectly with our ambitious expansion plans.”
City council leader Matthew Brown has described Animate as a key project in
Preston’s 15-year city investment plan. He says: “It will help complete the long-awaited regeneration of our city centre with the asset in the ownership of the city so Prestonians can benefit more directly from it.
“It’s fantastic to see a growing independent leisure operator committing to the project and Preston which is an acknowledgement of the attractiveness of investing in our community. Bringing tenants like Arc here will stimulate further investment and boost the local economy so more local people can benefit.”
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