Submitted on Friday 7th December 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Save Preston Bus Station
Preston City Council and Lancashire County Council are attempting to demolish Preston Bus Station. They claim it would be cheaper to demolish it and replace with a smaller facility, despite figures indicating that it would be cheaper to retain and refurbish. Preston Bus Station is on the World Heritage Watch List, for British brutalist buildings in danger. A large proportion of Preston citizens are in favour of keeping it, and the city council voted against holding a referendum despite a petition being presented to them.
The government should take measures to save this building, as it is part of city’s heritage. It should be listed as a fine example of 1960/70s modernist architecture. There is precedence for the listing with the recent listing of the Pennine Tower at Forton services. There is also a large Facebook campaign in favour of retention:
https://www.facebook.com/saveprestonbusstation
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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