All posts tagged "developments"

  • Deadline Nears for Comments on Taylor Wimpey Housing Development

    The public have till Sunday 10 May* to comment on plans to build more than 200 houses on the Whitakers Garden Centre site in Prescot. Taylor Wimpey have applied to build an estate of 227 residences on...

    • Posted May 7, 2020
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  • Theatre Crane Towers 190ft above Prescot

    A massive crane will alter the Prescot skyline for more than a year to come. The structure will stand on the Shakespeare North construction site for an estimated 65 weeks in total, lifting weights of up to...

    • Posted January 31, 2020
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  • Eccleston Street Improvements: Find out More

    Eccleston Street in Prescot town centre will be the first to benefit from a Liverpool City Region funding boost of £14 million. The investment, announced in June, is earmarked for improvements to transport in the town. In...

    • Posted July 19, 2018
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  • £14 Million Funding Boost for Prescot Town Centre Theatre & Transport Links

    Prescot will receive an estimated £14 million from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, it was announced last week. Some of the pot will go towards the new Shakespeare North theatre and college, while other earmarked projects...

    • Posted June 6, 2018
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  • Why Prescot Is on the Up

    They’re building a theatre in Prescot. It will be an authentic replica of a cockpit design by Inigo Jones, the famed 17th-century architect. Its existence will hark back to the late Elizabethan Prescot Playhouse, the first free-standing...

    • Posted May 29, 2018
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  • Competition to Name a Prescot Street

    Knowsley Council have launched a competition to name the street outside Shakespeare North’s new theatre, set to open in 2020. Judges are looking for something that is “unique, memorable and Shakespeare-themed.” And they’ve said adamantly they will...

    • Posted May 14, 2018
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  • New Prescot Police & Fire Station Now Open

    After a 12-month construction project, Prescot Community Fire & Police Station has opened at the junction of Manchester Road and Cables Way. The purpose-built facility replaces the former Prescot Police Station on Derby Street and both Whiston...

    • Posted January 31, 2018
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  • Construction of Prescot’s Shakespearean Theatre Planned for April

    Construction work on a theatre and college in Prescot town centre is expected to begin in April 2018, following the appointment of contractors by Knowsley Council. Liverpool-based Kier Construction are to build the 350-seat Elizabethan theatre, housed...

    • Posted January 31, 2018
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  • Luxury Hotel for Site of Imperial Pub, Prescot

    The former site of the Imperial pub, opposite Prescot Railway Station, will become home to a luxury boutique hotel. The fondly remembered pub, on the corner of Bridge Road and Station Road, burned down in 2012 and...

    • Posted November 24, 2017
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  • Planning Application Refused for Whitakers Land

    An application to build houses on former greenbelt in Prescot has been refused. Beesley & Fildes, Ltd, applied in 2016 to build up to 200 homes on land adjoining Whitakers Garden Centre, off Liverpool Road. They withdrew...

    • Posted April 26, 2017
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