More Trains ! -More loss of heritage again !

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In 2015 vintage railway track over 100 years old has been revealed in Station Road Poulton.

The long derelict site is at the junction of Breck Road and Station Road, adjacent to the traffic lights near the entrance to Wyre Council - it's being cleared in readiness to erect some assisted living apartments.
 


Plans to demolish a landmark Poulton pub are set to be given the green light tomorrow. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has applied for planning permission to pull the derelict Royal Oak down completely and replace it with a three-storey block of 12 apartments

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/decision-on-poulton-s-historic-royal-oak-pub-due-1-8581036
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse Experts have been inside the fire-damaged pub and are concerned it could suffer a similar fate to a building in Fleetwood which partially collapsed during a similar conversion.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse Experts have been inside the fire-damaged pub and are concerned it could suffer a similar fate to a building in Fleetwood which partially collapsed during a similar conversion.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990V
Plans to demolish a landmark Poulton pub are set to be given the green light tomorrow. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has applied for planning permission to pull the derelict Royal Oak down completely and replace it with a three-storey block of 12 apartments.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/decision-on-poulton-s-historic-royal-oak-pub-due-1-8581036
Plans to demolish a landmark Poulton pub are set to be given the green light tomorrow. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has applied for planning permission to pull the derelict Royal Oak down completely and replace it with a three-storey block of 12 apartments.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/decision-on-poulton-s-historic-royal-oak-pub-due-1-8581036

It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse

Heritage experts have said rebuilding the pub is the best way to press forward with the scheme. Poulton Historical and Civic Society has given cautious backing to the proposal but has made clear the replacement should be as faithful as possible to the original.

June 2017 - Plans to demolish a landmark Poulton pub are set to be given the green light tomorrow. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has applied for planning permission to pull the derelict Royal Oak down completely and replace it with a three-storey block of 12 apartments.

A number of conditions should be put in place, papers added, including recording the details of the pub to allow for ‘an accurate and faithful rebuild thereafter’.






This site was previously the goods yard and the original Poulton-le-Fylde railway station. It was closed to passengers after a serious accident in 1893 caused by a train from Blackpool travelling at excessive speed around a tight curve leading to the station, whereupon it derailed with fatal results. 

From 1846, there was a junction to Blackpool just north of the station, with tight connecting curves facing either way. In 1893 a fatal accident occurred when a train took the curve too fast.[ Subsequently, in 1896, the tracks were realigned to follow a much gentler westward curve to Blackpool, with the new station halfway along the curve. The Fleetwood branch then curved to the east to rejoin the original alignment. The old station continued to be used as a goods station until 1968.



Since June 2006, there have been plans to restore (and preserve) the passenger rail link towards Fleetwood via Thornton & Cleveleys, as a heritage railway !

It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
 
 
 
 
 
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse Experts have been inside the fire-damaged pub and are concerned it could suffer a similar fate to a building in Fleetwood which partially collapsed during a similar conversion.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse Experts have been inside the fire-damaged pub and are concerned it could suffer a similar fate to a building in Fleetwood which partially collapsed during a similar conversion.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse Experts have been inside the fire-damaged pub and are concerned it could suffer a similar fate to a building in Fleetwood which partially collapsed during a similar conversion.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990
It had been hoped the Victorian frontage of the Royal Oak in Poulton could be saved and incorporated into a new flats development. But concerns have been raised over the potential stability of the building shell which dates from the 1840s. Blackpool-based Keystone Design Associates has asked Wyre Council for permission to dismantle the existing building and rebuild it in a similar style following concerns it could collapse Experts have been inside the fire-damaged pub and are concerned it could suffer a similar fate to a building in Fleetwood which partially collapsed during a similar conversion.

Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/carbon-copy-proposal-for-historical-poulton-pub-site-1-8365990

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