A former Preston youth club that locals tried to save after the building in which it was based closed down is to be flattened to make way for housing., shut its doors in 2019 after Lancashire County Council decided to stop using the 90-year-old community centre to deliver family wellbeing services. That move also put an end to the weekly youth club that operated from the site, sparking protests from residents outside County Hall.
Five objections were lodged to the plans, which included claims that they amounted to “overdevelopment”, as well as dismay at the resultant loss of the community facility.That status, when it was granted, put a six-month block on any future sale of the land for redevelopment in order to allow grassroots organisations the chance to raise the funds needed to purchase it for continued community use. However, the site was ultimately auctioned to the current owner in August 2021.
Lancashire County Council’s historic environment team requested that an archaeological evaluation was carried out before the latest apartment application was decided. That building became a private school in the 1840s and, at the turn of the 20th century, was converted into a boys’ home by the Roman Catholic Brothers of Charity. In later years, more buildings were added to create St Thomas’s School for Catholic boys.
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