Paul Faulkner
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(Broadcast) Journalist - Local Democracy Reporter @leponline. #O2MediaAwards NW finalist (TV Journalist 2018 & 2017); @RTSNW finalist (Best Regional Story 2016)
Preston/Liverpool
Joined November 2009
The county council's leader has spoken after Nigel Farage said he expected all Reform-run local authorities to act following the enforced closure of an asylum hotel in Essex - but housing and planning are largely the preserve of district councils in Lancs.
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The Reform UK leader of Lancashire County Council says the authority is “awaiting further information” about a legal ruling on asylum hotels before taking any local action in response to it.
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The authority says it will explore all its options after a closure order was obtained for a similar facility. South Ribble's MP - who wants the hotel returned to public use - says it's nevertheless important to remember it is housing "human beings".
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South Ribble Borough Council says it is considering its options regarding the ongoing use of a hotel in Leyland to house asylum seekers, following a court ruling involving another local authority.
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They have defended the move on the basis that the principles on which they campaigned as independents align with those of the former Labour leader's new political movement. The opposition alliance of which they are a part @LancashireCC also remains intact.
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A trio of independent Lancashire county councillors have said they will join the new political party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn.
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The distinctive art deco building was due to be demolished not so long ago - but has now been given extra protection from that fate in future.
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A near century-old Preston building that used to house one of the city’s most popular Chinese restaurants has been given special protection.
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The site was at the centre of a long-running wrangle.
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The design of a controversial housing development in rural Preston has been given the thumbs up by councillors.
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Motorists using Lancaster's park and ride facility as a base for car share meet-ups are currently able to do so for free - but probably not for much longer.
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Users of Lancaster’s park and ride could soon be charged to leave their vehicles there – even if they do not then go on to catch the bus.
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Inspectors paint a mixed picture of staff doing their best within a flawed service that's under pressure.
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Lancashire County Council’s adult social care services have been ordered to improve after an inspection found residents left waiting for support and staff struggling under the weight of “unsustaina...
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Mistakes happen, but it seems a good job this one came to light sooner rather than later.
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Lancashire highways bosses have apologised after mistakenly publishing plans for a new one-way system that showed traffic would be heading in the opposite direction to the one intended.
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The issues raised by this Local Democracy Reporting Service story fuelling a debate on this morning's @GMB. #LDReporter
Maths pupils at a Lancashire school are set to be taught by a 'virtual' teacher 300 miles away. A qualified teacher will also be present in the classroom, but the National Education Union says its members are willing to go on strike over plans. Can remote teaching really work?
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The new set-up for maths students at a Bacup school has been compared to the remote learning deployed at the peak of the pandemic - but academy bosses insist the arrangement is totally different and will benefit pupils who would otherwise be disadvantaged.
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A row has broken out over whether plans for a Lancashire school to teach some of its students maths using a teacher in Devon amount to a return to the remote learning of the Covid lockdown era.
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A raft of new regulations designed to deal with antisocial behaviour are set to be approved, amid ongoing efforts to tackle organised crime - and the power of communities has been identified as a weapon against both blights.
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A Preston councillor who has spearheaded efforts to tackle antisocial behaviour in a part of the city plagued by problems says new measures due to be approved this week must be actively enforced in...
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The scale of the project has fluctuated in the face of shifting demand for extra school places - but now the maximum capacity is needed sooner than it can be delivered.
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Education bosses are planning to build a makeshift primary school in Preston after it emerged that a permanent facility already in the pipeline will not be ready by the time it is needed.
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The decision has prompted criticism - and the threat of a challenge.
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Chorley Council does not want traveller families in the borough, according to the representative of a community which has been told it must leave a site where it had hoped to create a permanent home.
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A lack of sites for the traveller community in Chorley led planning officers to recommend that a family be allowed to remain on a plot they had occupied without permission. But councillors were unconvinced - for multiple reasons.
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Councillors have rejected a bid by travellers to make a site in Chorley their permanent home.
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The long-planned Chorley development is finally set to get off the drawing board.
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A long-planned housing development on the edge of Chorley town centre is finally set to get off the drawing board after it was given the green light by councillors.
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The building has stood since the 1950s, but has now been branded damaging to the local area.
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A 70-year-old telephone exchange building in Preston could be flattened to make way for apartments.
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The scheme will have to be scaled back amid concern from city planners.
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Plans to create an open-air terrace bar on the roof of a one-time Preston pub are being redesigned amid concern over the scale of the scheme, the Lancashire Post can reveal.
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The development was given the green light at the second time of asking.
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New homes and a shop are to be built in the historic grounds of a listed former school in Preston.
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The bill ballooned after the project was hit by soaring inflation.
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The £3m increase in the bill for refurbishing the Harris Museum was split between Preston City Council and the National Lottery, the Lancashire Post can reveal.
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Cuts baked into the budget over the next two years - half of which stem from previously undelivered savings plans - look set to pose a challenge to some overspending departments.
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It is “essential” that Lancashire County Council finds £103m of savings over the next two years in order to maintain sound finances, a report has warned.
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