The Lancashire County Council hereby give notice that they have made, and are about to submit to the Secretary of State for Transport for confirmation, an Order under Section 14 and Section 125 of the Highways Act 1980.

Authorising the Council to:-

(a) improve highways (including raising, lowering or otherwise altering);

(b) stop up highways;

(c) construct new highways;

(d) stop up private means of access to premises;

(e) provide new means of access to said premises;

all on or in the vicinity of the route of the classified roads to be known as:

a) the Preston Western Distributor Road which the Council is proposing to construct between the M55 to the north and A583/A5085 Blackpool Road/ Riversway junction to the south;

b) the East West Link Road which the Council is proposing to construct between the Preston Western Distributor Road to the west and B6241 Lightfoot Lane to the east;

c) the Cottam Link Road which the Council is proposing to construct between the Preston Western Distributor Road to the west and Cottam Way to the east.

Copies of the Order and of the relevant plan(s) may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours from 23rd February 2018 at:

(a) the offices of the Lancashire County Council, Environment Directorate, Pitt Street, Preston, PR1 0LD;

(b) the offices of Preston City Council, Town Hall, Preston, PR1 2RL;

(c) the offices of Fylde Borough Council, Town Hall, Lytham St Annes, FY8 1LW;

(d) Ingol Library of Ventnor Place, Ingol, Preston, PR2 3YX;

(e) Savick Library of 6 Birkdale Drive, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston, PR2 1UL;

(f) the documents can also be viewed on the County Council’s website: visit www.lancashire.gov.uk and search for ‘Preston Western Distributor Road’.

ANY PERSON may not later than 13th April 2018 object to the confirmation of the Order by notice to the Secretary of State for Transport, National Transport Casework Team, Tyneside House, Skinnerburn Road, Newcastle Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7AR stating the grounds of their objection.

Dated 23rd February 2018

Laura Sales, Director of Corporate Services, Lancashire County Council,PO Box 78, County Hall, Preston, Lancashire PR1 8XJ