A wrangle over school places could put the brakes on plans for a new railway station in suburban Preston.
It comes after councillors rejected a bid to build almost 300 new homes in the vicinity of the long-awaited Cottam Parkway facility, which was finally given the green light last year – a decade after it was first mooted. The housing proposal would have seen two new estates built either side of the railway line, to the west of Lea Road. Crucially, as part of that blueprint, developer Story Homes planned to transfer 1.
The £24m Cottam Parkway station will occupy a 14.5-hectare site – of which the portion that would have been sold to County Hall for £1 as part of the Lea Road housing development represented around 10 percent.
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