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[Preston_guy]

A few bits I found while routing on www.preston.gov.uk

Renders of the Moor Lane development:


I think this one is like one for future development but looks neat:


Looks good!

[Accura4Matalan]

Unfortunately, those renders are not what we are going to be seeing. They are just examples that were made for the SPG for the Moor Lane site. We will see something similar, but not the same. I still hope they landscape the area around the windmill. That'd be cool

[Preston_guy]

aww that sucks never mind something similar would be cool. anyhoo, i'm on night shifts so i'd best be off!

[liverpolitan]

Originally Posted by ferge

Oh dear oh dear... What have I caused?? :S

I admit, bar the first picture the content is not exactly stuff you'd want in a tourism advert but..that is what I see when I leave my halls.. I can't change that can I? I am going to get some better pics (I mean, look at the sky on that, would you be standing about taking pics gettin piss wet through for a few hours??? I think now). I keep finding some vocal points that I think may be worth taking pics of.

You are forgetting that Preston, alike virtually any urban area.. has bad, yet it has some fine high-quality buildings amongst it all (Which I shall have to include now).. I do actually like taking pics of the office blocks, even though they are some of the worst about, lol... But the other day in a lecture I got a view of virtually all of them clustered together, and well.. I liked the composition at least.

Finally, Thank you for saying that my Liverpool pics were at least nice..shows I'm not being completely ripped into.. I shall remove these pics when I get home, and replace them with something a little more to your standard.

My sincere apologies once more..
Ferg

I wasn't having a go Ferg, I am a crap photographer and wouldn't know what was a technically good shot, but for what little its worth I thought you photos were very good, perhaps too good. I like that ultra-realistic style. It was the same when you came to Liverpool, you seem to have an ability to capture the feel of a place.

I'd like to re-visit Preston one day, but it's a long way away. Here is an idea for Prestonians, can you let me know if you think it's a possibility? How about if you built a huge Eden-centre style series of glass bubbles over the river (where Ferg's pictures are taken), and filter and clean the river, and make it fit for bathing? You could have a kind of pastoral idyll in the middle of the city, with meadows and trees and streams and grass and wild flowers. An urban Eden centre, with cafes and bars inside, and with large blocks of flats forming one wall - so their balconies are enclosed within the gigantic bubble. No rain, no cold, just serenity.

It could be used for small-sized "open air" gigs (up to say 500 people) year round, with a natural ampi-theatre leading down to the river, and once soft drugs are legalised it could have a chill zone where smoking is tolerated - you could hire hammocks by the hour and maybe some kind of games centre could be buried underneath.

[ferge]

I'm sorry for my sorry reply, lol..

I have been taking some more pics, but my camera is in my flat (I'm back at home for weekend) and can safely say I have some nice shots of Preston. I am also doing a small project which is replacing the 'Old Tram Bridge' over the Ribble.. which is cool.

Now, I'm off to my lil humble Wigan Development thread, as I have some 'Ex-high-ting' news..

[Accura4Matalan]

Interesting ferge. I've lived in Preston for 13 years, and I have yet to see the old tram bridge... oh well This project of yours sounds interesting.

Liverpolitan... have you been brainwashed by Will Alsop or something?

[Accura4Matalan]

Front page article in today's LEP. Big expansion of Deepdale retail park including 9 new shop units and a new housing estate. Not sure what to make of this. I'm not a huge fan of retail parks.

[Preston_guy]

I'm not keen either, it seems we're getting more and more retail offer outside of the city centre. Like some of the most popular stores ie Next have far larger stores on our retail parks than in the city centre. I know Tithebarn will help change that but until then, do we really need such a grand expansion of deepdale retail park? Only time will tell...

[ferge]

As a means of redemption, here are some warmer pics of the Jubilee City.















Next aim is to get that 'Clustered' shot I've been on about, lol.. and maybe some campus shots

[Prestonian]

How lovely, thanks ferge some great lighting effecty things...


Deepdale... not bad but not great news either. Where is there room for all that stuff unless they demolish bookers or something. Even worse, imagine the traffic that will result there now!!

[Preston_guy]

lol yeah I was at the retail park this afternoon and it was manic. Some kind of work is going on at the old Athletic track on London Road, is this maybe the sports park thing discussed a while back?

[dinp]

God, aint checked this page in aaaaaaaaaaaages - good to see the Tithebarn project has moved on in the backroom area and also good to see some reclads happening on the uglier buildings.

I feel sorry for your bus station though - I wish they could remodel and slim down rather than demolish.

[Accura4Matalan]

This is a sad day, ferge has owned me with his pics. Those are fantastic. I love the town hall tower shot.

preston_guy: I also saw the construction going on at the London Road Athletics track. Thank God for that. That massive eyesore will finally be gone. You know, in a way, this means that Riverworks is U/C

[Accura4Matalan]

App for Fox St apartments (about bloody time!!!)
7-storeys... thats 8-levels, 2 more than the origional plans!

Also an app for a 5-storey apartment block somewhere on Grimshaw Street.

[Preston_guy]

Excellent! Those apartments were discussed aaaages ago. Thank God they're finally coming about. And decent height as well.

[Accura4Matalan]

3rd tallest known proposal we have at the moment :P

[Preston_guy]

hehe yeah that's true. I can't see there being any objections. That site looks gross it needs something 'big' to give it a lease of life.

I'm disappointed over the barristers' chambers being on hold because the firm pulled out. I hope they can find someone to take their place as that site is a real eyesore. I don't think the proposed building is that bad. It's a pretty small site so it's as good as it gets I suppose! It's weird, cos I emailed the construction firm last night asking when they'd be starting! Must be psychic...

[Accura4Matalan]

The barristers chambers are on hold? Where did you find that out? Great shame. They spent ages getting it through the planning too

There were initially objections to the Fox Street scheme because the site is apparently site to an old burial ground. Everything was sorted though And the site at current is a total mess...

[Preston_guy]

I thought I wasn't imagining it, I thought I'd heard about graves or a graveyard on Fox St! Yep, in tonight's LEP middle pages small piece of the barristers' chambers Seeing as they were due to have been constructed and inhabitated by around this time, something should have been sorted sooner. But it's got the planning permission so maybe another firm will have it

[Accura4Matalan]

Oh well At least the site is still being well marketed. Somebody will come along eventually, better sooner than later :P