Winckley Square - Preston - Lancashire
 
Dedicated to the Preservation of this Historic Park
 
Introduction
 
Winckley Square Winckley Square in Preston is the finest example of a privately planned Georgian development with Open Space in the North of England. Just 50 yards from Preston's main shopping thoroughfare, this beautifully landscaped parkland is a peaceful urban refuge from the hurly-burly of city life.

The story of the buildings and residents of this famous Preston square.

 
New December 2009
 
Press Notices
 
Healthy trees face axe in parkNew
Dozens of healthy trees have been earmarked for felling as part of plans to restore an historic Preston park to its Victorian glory.

Square's trees face the axe in revampNew
One seventh of the trees in Winckley Square are set to be felled for "design reasons" as part of a £3m revamp.

Group campaigns against cheap square plansNew
Conservation campaigners are mounting a protest by bombarding planning bosses with thousands of picture postcards of a threatened city square.

Square battle on the cardsNew
Conservation campaigners are mounting a protest by bombarding planning bosses with thousands of picture postcards of a threatened city square.

Vision for square is a 'carbuncle''New
Plans to revamp Preston's Winckley Square have been described as a "totem carbuncle on the face" of the city. Lib Dem Councillor Mark Jewell has submitted objections along with the Lib Dem group to aspects of the plan.

Hundreds object to square's revamp plansNew
Conservation campaigners are mounting a protest by bombarding planning bosses with thousands of picture postcards of a threatened city square.

 
 

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