Cottam Parkway Railway Station proposed CGI image Pic: Lancashire County Council A brand new railway station for suburban Preston is finally visible on the
facility, which will offer passengers five-minute journey times into Preston city centre and 20-minute travel times to Blackpool.
Since the blueprint for Cottam Parkway was first drawn up, a controversial proposal from the rail industry has. A consultation into the closure plan received a record 680,000 responses, which are currently being assessed. While committee members were enthused by the principle of the development, some regarded the potential five-year delay as a danger signal. Ordinarily, planning permissions require work to begin with three years of approval being granted.“We’re not talking here about the timescale to actually do the development and complete it – because there is no restriction on that. We’re talking about when to start it.” he said.
“In addition to the potential need for a compulsory purchase order, [the applicant] will also need to carry out works in terms of appointing contractors and…submitting the [planning] conditions [and] getting all those works discharged. Three objections were lodged to the plans, along with four letters of support. Almost the opposition was a claim that the station should be called Lea Parkway, because it is actually within the Lea parish area.
County Hall hopes that the station will “encourage a shift in journeys from road to rail”, which will “help to reduce traffic at key congestion hotspots on Preston’s road network”. One objection to the proposal noted that there was no provision for electric bicycle and motorcycle charging, nor for charging buses. They added that – given what they described as the limited number of car charging points – the station was therefore not “future-proofed”.The ‘semi-rural’ station
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