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Plans to build 20 holiday lodges, a spa and an orangery at a Grade II listed mansion-turned-wedding venue have been given the green light.

New manor house wedding venue & spa set to open near Fylde coast

'An opportunity for something positive' - Unique chance to run beloved Anchorsholme Park café in Blackpool

'Opportunity for positivity' - Unique chance to run beloved park café

Fylde Council has reccomended the application for refusal

'We'll fight our ground'- Major solar farm future decided by council

County Councillor James Tomlinson objects to the proposals

'We don't want it'- Residents outrage over major industrial park plans

Blackpool Taxi fares are set to rise. Inset - Neil Charnock of Blackpool Taxi Association

Decision made on taxi fares amid drivers concern of rising costs

The Landaus - it's the sound of the horses which add to the seaside ambience... Blackpool would not be the same without them

Council update on fares for a ride in a seafront landau

Staff and senior leader from children’s services celebrate their Ofsted rating with cabinet members Cllr Kath Benson, Cllr Lynn Williams, and Cllr Jim Hobson

Ofsted gives verdict on Blackpool Council's children's services

Objecting Wrea Green residents and Cllr Frank Andrews outside Fylde Town Hall in St Annes

Anger erupts amid update on plans for major new housing development

Council welcomes new Prime Minister Andy Burnham's pledge to end homelessness

Blackpool Council responds to PM Burnham's pledge to end homelessness

Lorraine Beavers, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, has paid tribute to the UK’s longest-serving councillor Ivan Taylor

MP lauds 'incredible' Ivan Taylor, UK's longest-serving councillor

Community groups to take over council land and buildings in new scheme

WDSF DanceSport Festival (Credit: Hery Deslandes)

Blackpool has incredible atmosphere and is a remarkably welcoming town

Fylde MP Andrew Snowdon has launched a major campaign to protect Fylde Coast's green spaces

Major campaign launched to protect green spaces

A big decision has been made on a major housing project on the edge of Blackpool

Final decision reached on major plans for new housing development

Wyre Council has elected Councillor Steve Nicholls as its Mayor for 2026/27

'A privilege' - New Mayor of Wyre installed at special meeting

Blackpool North and Fleetwood MP Lorraine Beavers.

I believe Labour needs a new leader before next year’s elections
‘We need a democratic contest involving the most talented leaders from across our movement’
Ciara Fearn

Groynes on Blackpool Beach (inset: Saffron Cole-Nottage drowned after her head stuck in sea defence groynes)

Council defends controversial new beach groynes amid safety concerns

Sarah Lindsay, pictured with Blackpool South MP Chris Webb, has been named as the new chairman of Layton and Grange Park Pride of Place project

First Pride in Place meeting on £20m Layton and Grange Park fund

Pride in Place: Lyndsay Truelove – Family Support Team Manager at Christ the King, Mark Walmsley – chair of Layton Together and Layton’s Forward Project, Mike Coole – community development manager @TheGrange, myself, Sarah Lindsay – board chair and head of service at Boathouse Youth, Amy Butler – Director of strategic partnerships at Empowerment Charity, youth worker Danielle Spencer. Top right-left Josh Fowler, 6th Form student and Grange Park resident, John Boughton and Kath Benson - Layton councillors, and Adrian Hoyle - Park Ward councillor.

'A once in a lifetime for these communities, we must get it right'

Spago Lytham

Update on future of Fylde coast restaurant amid planning drama

Fylde councillors Joanne Gardner and Karen Henshaw on the land off Queensway where a £28m retail development has been proposed

£28m plans for retail hub including petrol station and garden centre

Fleetwood residents protest on Jameson Road and outside TransWaste

Children's voices to be heard in new protest

What to expect

Waterloo Road's Winter Wonderland Christmas Light Switch On

A top Lancaster Tory claims Reform UK councillors at Lancashire County Council are ‘idiots and clowns’

Tory calls Reform UK councillors at Lancashire County Council ‘clowns’

Ian White, Director of StayBlackpool

No hotel trade licenses in Blackpool is free ticket for grooming gangs

Coun Emma Ellison

Blackpool councillor defects to Reform UK in shock move

Different levels of care are offered by the council

More than 10,000 people accessed council care in Blackpool in one year
More than 10,000 people requested some kind of support from Blackpool Council's adult services team during a recent 12 month stretch.
Shelagh Parkinson

Starr Gate beach

Councillors fear wind farm cables could disrupt traffic on Queensway

Blackpool councillors have voted for an increase in allowances

Blackpool councillors to get back dated pay rise

Lancashire county councillors have been complaining about each other - but their overall behaviour has been praised

All the complaints against councillors in 2024 - including from each other

Blackpool Council has approved its annual corporate parenting report

Children's survey shows they don't want to be taken out of school

Wyre Council council has identified four projects it believes could breathe new life into Fleetwood’s waterfront.

Wyre Council approve plans to revitalise Fleetwood's seafront

The Talbot Ward will kicking off it’s festive celebrations in style this December with its own Christmas tree lights switch on event on December 6.

Date announced for Blackpool Talbot ward's Christmas lights switch on

Lancashire County Council members get £2,000 a year to hand out to local community groups

More than £120K of Lancashire community funding so far unaccounted for

Annie Valentine is fed up of persistent fly-tipping

'It grinds me down...it's not low-level crime when you live with it'

Concerns have been raised over the number of children being home-schooled in Lancashire

The education system doesn't have my children's interests at heart

Independent councillor Tim Armit has resigned from Fylde Borough Council after almost 10 years.

Councillor quits Fylde Council calling fellow colleagues 'irrelevant'

Annie Valentine is sick of people putting rubbish in the recycling bins.

'It grinds me down...it's not low-level crime when you live with it'

Gary Hough, 62, looks up to the skies outside his home surrounded in seagull

'Horrified' residents invaded by 'apocalyptic' swarm of seagulls

Damian (left) and Nigel (right) Bailey the owners of Baileys Cheese and Charcuterie

New delicatessen hopes to wow local foodies with local produce

Artist's impression of the new courthouse

Conservative leader challenges council's decision to sell land for £1

Coun Diane Mitchell is helping to launch the free coaching sessions

Free sports coaching sessions launched in parks

Coun Karen Bruce claimed that a Pop Tart was to blame for a dramatic toaster fire that nearly torched her kitchen.

I put a Pop Tart in toaster - my kitchen almost went up in flames

The site on Coronation Street earmarked for the Rovers Return

Decision made on Blackpool's own Rovers Return pub

Philip Waller, 65, returned from a shopping trip last week to find that a broadband firm had erected the pole outside his house in Barnsley, South Yorks. Lee McLean/SWNS

Watch: Broadband pole was put outside my home but I had it taken down

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

Campaigners are unhappy that plans for a children's hom in St Annes have been re-submitted

We were relieved when children's home was refused - but now it's back

Waterloo Road Methodist Church

A new use has been agreed for Blackpool church set for demolition

Residents in Fleetwood protesting against the odour at Fleetwood's landfill site

Residents angry as landfill operators miss deadline to halt odour

Land off Cropper Road will be developed for housing

350 new homes approved on edge of Blackpool despite 'rat run' fears

Housing in central Blackpool is to be transformed (image from Google)

First steps to be taken towards £90m housing transformation

Work on the Talbot Gateway project has been delayed

Town hall bosses in row with Talbot Gateway builders over long delays

Michael Perkins is fighting for right to park on his own drive in Warndon, Worcester

Watch: Council ban owner of 'eyesore' motorhome from parking on drive

Artist's impression of how the transformed former Poulton Police Station will look. Image: Stanton Andrews

Ambitious 'Bobby's Yard' food market project is approved

Coun Ashley Sorensen was told to leave the council chamber during the meeting

Extraordinary scenes as councillor told to leave full council session

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