Decision details

A report was presented on an application for a Development of new highways including Preston Western Distributor, Cottam Link Road and East West Link Road. The proposals included a new motorway junction to the M55 together with temporary soil storage and contractor areas, cycle track alongside all highways, water attenuation ponds, diversion/stopping up of public rights of way, landscaping and ecology mitigation areas, construction of two bridges, two viaducts, two underpasses and a cattle creep on land in Lea, Cottam and Bartle and to the west and north of the existing built up area of Preston.

The Development Management Officer advised that the new highways would be a major piece of strategic transport infrastructure which would inevitably have some impacts on the local environment.  In order to appreciate the location and design of the proposed routes as well as the local environmental impact, it was considered that Members should visit the route of the proposed highways before considering the planning application.

Resolved: That the Development Control Committee visits the route of the proposed highways before determining the applications.