A Road to Ruin?

Campaign group Defend Lytham believes a series of developments across Fylde pose a significant risk to the borough.

Plans have been lodged for 1,150 homes on land at Queensway, St Annes, and for a further 337 dewellings in Graving Dock Road, Lytham.

Defend Lytham fears that the developments will affect the fabric of the Lytham St Annes community.

A statement from the group reads: "Do we really have the social infrastructure - health, services, schools, local road and town centre capacities etc - to cope with this?

"Extensive development of the Queensway site would place additional pressure on the local flood plain, thereby endangering properties over a much wider area, and result in the loss of many wildlife habitats."

The Graving Dock Road plans link into the Lytham Quays site.

Defend Lytham is opposed to the plans as they are close to land earmarked for employment use.

A spokesman for the group said: "It will encroach onto Dock Road which is zoned as employment land in the Local Plan and was given a high sustainability rating in the Grimley report issued by the council. Helical Technology - one of the large companies operating there - has already recognised that the proposed development would be detrimental to their expansion plans and therefore to the future employment and wider economic prospects of the area."

A further plan has been lodged to build 88 apartments in nearby Boundary Road - also land earmarked for employment use.

Defend Lytham fears that all of the developments - and the large Cypress Point development in Ansdell - will eventually be joined by a substantial road.

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