Cllr Boardman News Today

Residents of a Chorley village say they are relieved and delighted that plans for a new housing estate have been kicked out by councillors.

Visitors to Chorley’s Astley Hall will have to pay to enter the attraction when it reopens this spring after a £1.1m facelift.

Visitors to Chorley’s Astley Hall will have to pay to enter the attraction when it reopens this spring after a £1.1m facelift.

RESIDENTS of a Chorley village have been given reason to rejoice just days before Christmas after controversial plans for a so-called “super…

Residents of a Chorley village have been given reason to rejoice just days before Christmas after controversial plans for a so-called “super prison” were rejected by councillors.

Chorley Council has called for a consultation into the future of the borough’s two maintained nursery schools to be halted. Lancashire County Council, which runs the Duke Street and Highfield [Wright Street] facilities in the district, started the process earlier this month after more than a year’s delay because of the pandemic. As the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) revealed in January 2020, the authority had originally been intending to assess four out of its 24 nurseries t...

Image: Chorley Council The oldest surviving cotton mill building in Chorley will remain largely intact after revised plans were approved to turn it into modern apartments. Planning permission was granted in 2019 to redevelop the landmark five-storey mill on Standish Street in the town centre to create 48 new dwellings. That would have involved the demolition of both wings of the early eighteenth century building – with the central core and chimney being retained – and three new floors...