It'd be the first services on the M55 and would take 18 months to be built
A brand new motorway service stations is set to be built between Preston and Blackpool on the M55. The facility has been proposed for a site just off the new junction 2 of the motorway, where the motorway meets the recently-opened Preston Western Distributor Road.
The new services, which would take around 18 months to complete, would be built on what is currently an agricultural field on the eastbound side of the M55. The development would be accessed from a second roundabout that would be created close to the one that links the motorway and the distributor road – now known as Edith Rigby Way – which runs through to the A583 at Riversway and Blackpool Road.
There would be parking for around 360 cars, with additional dedicated spaces for caravans, motorbikes and coaches, as well as a separate HGV parking area. Open space and grassland “for dog walkers and visitors to stretch their legs” is also promised on the 6.8-hectare plot, along with landscaped areas around the edge of the site which could include opportunities for increasing existing levels of biodiversity.
In 1998, longstanding plans for a service area at junction 3 of the M55 at Kirkham were refused by a planning inspector because of what would have been a loss of agricultural land and the lack of proven need for the facility.
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