The Star in Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, closed after Lancashire County Council stop using the 90-year-old community centre to deliver family wellbeing services
A former Preston youth club that locals tried to save after the building in which it was based closed down is to be flattened to make way for housing. The Star, on Tulketh Crescent in Ashton, shut its doors in 2019 after Lancashire County Council decided to stop using the 90-year-old community centre to deliver family wellbeing services.
It follows the withdrawal last year of a previous bid to build 16 apartments and eight houses on the site. According to a submission made on behalf of the applicant, Philip Oram, the change was made to take the “comments and concerns” of town hall planners into account. City council planning officers concluded that the latest apartments blueprint had been accompanied with sufficient proof to show that The Star building “no longer serves the need[s] of the community and [that it] would not be viable to bring [it] back into use for a community facility”.
Lancashire County Council’s historic environment team requested that an archaeological evaluation was carried out before the latest apartment application was decided. That assessment did not uncover any firm evidence of Roman or medieval activity on the site, but did reveal “a range of deposits of archaeological interest”.
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