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An archive listing of news items about the Carillion-Chelverton development plans for Lancaster, comprising news stories on this site and others, including Grassroots Lancaster and Real Planning for Lancaster. Check back for new items as they are published both online or in Lancaster's local press.

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Background

Read the background report on the Virtual-Lancaster, a regurlarly updated page on Lancaster development

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This archive does not include every development story posted on VL (and some stories posted by local press) but hopefully it is a useful guide

2005
- Seeking Views

20/12/05: Centros Miller's PR company Halogen has set up a web site, Castle View (www.castle-view.info), which they intend to be a reliable up-to-date source of information on Lancaster's Canalside project.

- Response to Lancaster Guardian connection discovery
19/12/05: Centros Miller's PR company has responded quickly to Virtual-Lancaster's note that one of the Miller Group's non-executive director is also Chief Executive of Johnston Press, owners of the Lancaster Guardian and the Morecambe Visitor

- Lancaster transformed - or Lancaster lost?
18/12/05: Has the Lancaster Guardian already sided with Centros Miller, no matter what its plans?

- Co-op safe, say developers
24/11/05: The specialist city centre regeneration developer Centros Miller has assured locals the Musicians Co-op will not be lost when development begins on the old Mitchell Brewery site

- It's Our City Campaign launches
Posted 16/11/05
It's Our City, a new group has been set up by concerned residents, the Music Co-op and local businesses, to have meaningful dialogue with the City Council and their preferred developer Centros Miller about planed developments on Lancaster's Canal Corridor.

- What next for the Musicians Coop?
Posted 5/11/05
The Muscians Co-op may again be under threat, although council leader assures it isn't

-Kingsway Work starts next week
Posted 6/1/05. PC World and Pizz Hut, oh yes.

2004
- Kingsway plans condemned
Posted 16/2/04: A door to door opinion poll about plans for Lancaster's Kingsway Baths has seen a big thumbs down for plans put forward by Liberty Properties.

2003
- Defer planning approval, say Greens
17/12/03: Bulk Green party members are calling for the planning decision on the former Kingsway Baths site to be deferred from late January in order to allow for effective public consultation on the plans.

- Kingsway Development Concerns
2/12/03: The local Green Party has serious concerns about the development plans submitted by Liberty Properties for the old bus station and swimming baths site at Kingsway, Lancaster.

- Real Planning -- Your Views wanted
14/6/03: Local community group Real Planning for Lancaster is seeking your views on development in the city
Posted 14/6/03

2002
- 17/12/02: Community campaigners opposing Carillion's plans for a new superstore in Lancaster have welcomed a leading think-tank's report on the impact supermarkets have on neighbourhood shops, and jobs.

- 11/12/02: The motion passed by Lancaster City Council against the sale of land

- 11/12/02: Lancaster City Council vote against Big Box, Supermarket and road on land they own in the canal area, and for negotiations for long-term lease for the Music Co-op

- 26/11/02: Simon Morgan of Chelverton and Alan Mitchell of Carillion come to speak to MP Hilton Dawson, County Cllr Jon Sear, Local Cllrs and Representatives from Real Planning, The Grand, The Dukes and The Music Co-op. Locals chant and drum outside the meeting, while Morgan inside dismisses Local Opinion as "irrelevant".

- 25/11/02: The Music Co-op puts in their own application for planning permission - for a new 300 person venue and to improve facilities at the co-op.

- 30/10/02: Carillion recruitment protest - Carillion are one of the companies behind CR Chelverton. Since they were at a recruitment fair at Lancaster Uni Grassroots Lancaster decided to pay them a visit...

- 28/10/02: Surprise protest outside Chelverton offices. Some of us were in Bristol, so decided to visit the Chelverton offices there...

- 8/10/02: Chelverton turn down chance of community consultation

- 25/09/02: Chelverton: "New Road Essential to Development" - exclusive interview with Simon Morgan - director of CR Chelverton

- 27/08/02: Vie ws on the Musicians' Co-op

- 27/09/02: Critical Mass, including Photos - a mass action by Lancastrians on bike, skateboard on foot to raise awareness about the threat from Chelverton

And what the papers have been saying...

The Citizen 12/12/02: Music to city ears

25/11/02: How your Co-op could be! - Co-op press release

The Citizen 14/11/02:  "Big box retailing" Ruled out for site on canal corridor

The Citizen 24/10/02: Community vision to 'get real'

The Citizen 24/10/02: Who's sorry now?

23/10/02: Special Benefit

The Citizen 17/10/02: Time to start thinking for the area and stop playing party politics

The Citizen 17/10/02: And all that jazz

Lancaster Guardian 11/10/02: Keep true to the 'cultural quarter'

Lancaster Guardian 11/10/02: Yet more empty promises

Lancaster Guardian 11/10/02: Does our city deserve its cultural title?

The Citizen 10/10/02: Talk to us Chelverton!

The Citizen 10/10/02: Divide and conquer

The Citizen 3/10/02: Bands of hope

The Citizen 3/10/02: Anti Chelverton protest grows

Lancaster Guardian 27/9/02: Don't take our music away

Lancaster Guardian 27/9/02: Pedal power disruption

Lancaster Guardian 27/9/02: Band aid for troubled Co-op

The Citizen 26/9/02: This city is being stripped of it's greenbelt and will end up like Coventry or Wolverhampton!

The Citizen 26/9/02: All that jazz for the Co-op

Lancaster Guardian 20/9/02: We must keep this vital platform

Lancaster Guardian 20/9/02: Beating the Co-op drum

The Citizen 19/9/02: Rock gig pays dividends!

Lancaster Guardian 13/10/02: Don't close this wonderful Co-op

Lancaster Guardian 13/10/02: Money talks ... quietly

The Citizen 12/9/02: Let's think about a cultural quarter

Lancaster Guardian 6/9/02: Co-op has role in cultural quarter

Lancaster Guardian 6/9/02: No guarantees on Lodge Street site

Lancaster Guardian 6/9/02: Singing to save the Co-op

The Citizen 5/9/02: Sound advice

The Citizen 5/9/02: Music to our ears

The Citizen 29/8/02: Readers letter

Lancaster Guardian 30/8/02: Readers' letters about the Co-op

Lancaster Guardian 30/8/02: Co-op meeting

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: Co-op's plea to save space

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: New vision must include Co-op

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: Think again

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: We need answers

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: Crazy council

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: Dismay at proposal

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: Great loss in the offing

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: Safeguard the co-op

Lancaster Guardian 23/8/02: We must keep music alive

The Citizen 22/8/02: At last... a public service report you can trust!

The Citizen 22/8/02: W e must save the Co-op

The Visitor 21/8/02: Don't take the music away

Lancaster Guardian 16/8/01: Concern for musicians

Lancaster Guardian 16/8/01: Importance of the Local Plan

Lancaster Guardian 16/8/01: Musicians call for band aid

The Citizen 15/8/02: Why the Beat Must Go On

Lancaster Guardian 9/8/02: Wrong for big development, Air ey dismayed with Labour, Kingsway ideas have to fit in

The Visitor 7/8/02: Don't build a supermarket in city centre

Lancaster Guardian 2/8/02: Ian Barker warns council over Kingsway proposals: "Don't sell out to developers"

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THE PLAYERS
Lancaster City Council owns the former Kingsway Leisure Centre and surrounding land and recently decided to proceed with a development by Liberty and Crosby. Their plans for the building of a large block of flats, together with some retail and leisure facilities and some new parking, have met with some criticism from the local Labour group.
Council officers see the Kingsway and Mitchells developments as "inextricably linked."

Council Regeneration Strategy documents on the council web site (PDF files)

• To find out who your councillor is and their contact address visit the City Council web site. You can now write to your councillors, as well as your MP via writetothem.com

View our list of Planning Committe and Cabinet members, sourced from information in the public domain

• Contact the Planning Department
to express your views on city centre development:

Andrew Dobson
Head of Planning and Building Control
Palatine Hall
Dalton Square
Tel: 01524 582803

• Centros Miller
Lancaster City Council announced Centros Miller had been selected by the Council as preferred developer for the 10-acre (4-hectare) Canal Corridor North site in 2005 (see CM's April 2005 press release), which is principally owned by the council and Mitchell's Brewery.
The proposed mixed-use development -- which will begin with a master-planning exercise that will involve extensive public consultation -- is intended to extend the city’s retail and leisure amenities.

You can contact Centros Miller to give your views or suggestions in three ways:

By email: comment@castle-view.info

By telephone:
01242 256805

By Freepost:
Halogen
Freepost
227 London Road
Cheltenham
GL52 6BR

Castle View
Developers Centros Miller will use this site to be a reliable up-to-date source of information on Lancaster's Canalside project.

Halogen
PR company for Centros Miller

Liberty Properties plc

CR Chelverton Properties was thepartnership between the Chelverton Group, construction giant Carillion and Richardson Developments involved in many development schemes across the country. They hope their proposed schemes for land they own in the Kingsway area and the old Mitchells Brewery will be seen as complementary to the Liberty-Crosby project.
Currently Carillion / Chelverton own The Crown Inn, the Nether Lune Works oppostie Gladstone Terrace, Falcon and Earnshaws and have "options to buy" on the Mitchells Brewery site, the Spiritualist Church and the Sowerby familly's garage and land.
CRC, who have been involved in proposed developments since the early 1990s, was one of five shortlisted developers for the Kingsway site in 2001. Lancaster City Council didn't proceed with their earlier proposals on "deliverability" grounds. At the time, Chelverton were supported in their bid by the local Labour Party, who now oppose their current scheme.
CRC's past plans for a mixed retail and leisure development were anchored by a Warners multiplex, who then decided to build the new complex in Church Street. They also lost their fitness partner.
They no longer have any interest in the North Road retail park that currently houses Comet, Halfords and Currys. This was sold to the Staffordshire Pension Fund.
It is believed that CRC have bought 'options to buy' on much of the land in their scheme, rather than buying the property outright. This gives them 'first refusal' in any sale of property like Mitchells Brewery.

• The Stop Chelverton Group discovered (29/10/02) that Chelverton Group, had gone into receivership. Chelverton Group is legally seperate from CR Chelverton, but both companies have close links, sharing some directors and staff, including the Managing Director Matthew Cartisser and also Simon Morgan.
Chelverton Group went into liquidation with accounts showing a loss of £13, 337, 776 last year. Carillion will now be taking a bigger part in the development plan.
Contact details for all CR Chelverton directors are available on Grass Roots Lancaster

The Sunlight Laundry has a long lease on the land off Bulk Road from which it runs its cleaning operation. They've made it clear the laundry is very successful and will not consider moving unless there's a good relocation site on offer. They see the advantage of moving to a modern site, however and CRC are helping with the search. Whatever happens, Sunlight plan to stay in Lancaster and the workforce will be protected.

The Sowerby family own some of the land in the Kingsway area

Lancaster Chamber of Commerce represents businesses in Lancaster, Morecambe, Carnforth and the surrounding areas. For information or how to join, call 01524 381331 or e-mail info@lancaster-chamber.org.uk

ALTERNATIVES

Articles on this site
Why the Muscians' Co-op should be saved, by Bridget Halldearn

10 Ways to Create a Better World (say no to supermarkets)

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Clone Town Britain
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