Preston's old tram bridge to be replaced

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Preston’s historic Old Tram Bridge will finally be replaced after the city scooped £20m from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.

It will form part of a package of regeneration projects, focusing on parks, transport and the public realm.

As the most eye-catching of the plans, the replacement bridge – estimated in 2021 to cost around £6m – will enable the restoration of a connection between Avenham Park and Penwortham that was abruptly cut over safety fears almost four years ago.

Lancashire as a whole has secured £200m of government cash to fund a plethora of projects – including £50m towards the estimated £100m cost of the Eden Project North in Morecambe and £49.6m for a raft of transport improvements in East Lancashire.

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