PLANS for Leyland’s next gateway feature look set to get the go-ahead tonight.
South Ribble Council’s regeneration team has put forward an application for a First World War memorial and peace garden, and a decision is set to be made at a planning meeting this evening.
The council’s planning officers have now recommended the planning committee, made up of councillors, approve the scheme.
Supporting documents read: “The structure will form part of a series of ‘gateway’ public art structures denoting, and enhancing the entrances to Leyland.
“Should permission be granted, changes to the site would result in a highly visible, but relatively tranquil site.”
The project will be developed on council-owned land near the roundabout of Stanifield Lane, Farington Road, Lostock Lane and Watkin Lane, to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War next year.
A report adds: “The application requests permission to erect a sheet steel memorial with sunken peace garden and surrounding turfed embankment; ancillary ground works and landscaping measures.
“In an effort to commemorate the centenary of First World War (2014), central government has established a heritage fund to assist funding of events and memorials – subject to planning approval, the council would submit a bid to fund this initiative.
“This application forms part of a future objective (not forming part of this application) to create and link footpaths from the site to St Catherine’s Hospice Gardens.”
One letter of objection has been submitted.
to the council from a resident, who describes the ‘shaped piece of rusted metal’ as being an ‘eyesore’, which will attract graffiti and vandalism.
However, the final design will be subject to a public consultation.
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