Blackpool Central Redevelopment

[Quantum]

Demolishing the courts is a start. Last time I parked near there I though I'd rocked up in Chernobyl.

Blackpool council always have ambitions but lack the funding to realise them. As early posts have stated the 4D theatre concept is already dated. Look around the country and new leisure venues are popping up offering something a bit different, they need to think outside the box.

 

[JT01]

Am I missing the joke about the B&M...? I'm confused

 

[AT86]

Spose we all know the only B&M’s that will ever be built in Blackpool.

 

[JT01]

I did think it could be that haha

 

[Katy]

I did think it could be that haha

Wildly off topic here but their headquarters and warehouse used to be in Blackpool (on the industrial estate near the airport) before the company was sold off and expanded further around the country.

I don't expect anything to actually happen on the site for a long time, they'll demolish the old police station and courts just because they're too dangerous to leave standing with kids breaking into them (the only time someone breaks in to a police station, haha), they have put fencing around the King Edward apartments which are supposed to be getting refurbed into nice apartments, hopefully that'll get done too and hopefully something with the old Central Picturehouse. But this site was cleared of the railway a long time ago for "future exciting developments" and so far we've had a car park.

 

[rob666]

Six monthly update...

Err...

Relaunch!

Massive new indoor theme park with six coasters...

Ok I lie.

No backers, council skint, lovely new multi storey car park, well themed to concrete brutalism...but nowt else, just bombsite.

All previous plans are now scratched, and the skint council will soon throw a few million quid at another "developer" who will go bust after a couple of years...like Nikal Ltd did last year.

As you were, absolutely nothing to be seen here, please move on.

Again, for another decade, this has rumbled since the seventies, older than the Orphan Rocker.

 

[Spark]

Its almost as bad as the London Entertainment Resort

 

[rob666]

No, this has been going on for about five times longer.
With exactly the same result.

 

[Quantum]

It makes the decision to close Bonny Street market all the more baffling. Economic headwinds are not favourable and the council certainly don't have the cash. Remember Morcombe demolished the pleasure beech there and a good chunk of that land has still not been developed, there are parallels emerging here.

 

[rob666]

Bonny Street market was a small eyesore, unpopular with the council, selling wolf full moon sweaters and multicoloured bongs.
At the time of the market closure, there were active plans to start foundation works for building.
Again.
That was the excuse to get rid of the third rate shoddy "market".

 

[Quantum]

Bonny Street market was a small eyesore, unpopular with the council, selling wolf full moon sweaters and multicoloured bongs.
At the time of the market closure, there were active plans to start foundation works for building.
Again.
That was the excuse to get rid of the third rate shoddy "market".

Ah yes and an empty price of land is generating how much money for the council? People still used it regardless of the **** sold there, I wait with baited breath to see what the replacement will be...

 

[rob666]

It is now a large cleared site with no sitting tenants, so it is probably worth more...they are planning large scale development of the area, even if they are castles in the sky.