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Housing estate and sports hub planned for outskirts of city
Lancashire Evening Post
|March 12, 2026
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The proposed Longridge Sports Village site.
More than 200 homes and a raft of new and upgraded sports facilities could be created on the outskirts of Preston as part of a major residential and leisure development.
The proposed Longridge Sports Village scheme would provide a "high-quality" hub for "local grassroots sport", according to the organisations behind it. Provision for football, gymnastics, padel and informal runs would sit alongside up to 220 new dwellings, all which would fall into the discounted 'affordable homes' category. More than 40 of the proposed properties are flats designed specifically for older people.
A 12-hectare site to the northwest of the town has been earmarked for the ambitious project, adjacent to Longridge Town Football Club and Longridge Cricket Club.
This story is from the March 12, 2026 edition of Lancashire Evening Post.
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