By Ged Henderson
to create up to 1,000 jobs, bring an estimated 600,000 additional visitors each year, and boost annual spend in the resort by £75m.
The ambitious plans for the site of the old Blackpool Central railway station, which were first unveiled in 2018, included hotels, restaurants, food market, event square, residential apartments and multi-storey parking.
Now Blackpool Council has terminated its agreement with Nikal and is looking to appoint professional agents to promote the 17-acre site to international leisure investors.
Council leader Lynn Williams said: “The road to regeneration isn’t always smooth but we will not stand still.”
She said work would continue to create a ‘shovel ready’ site for a new leisure attraction, including the demolition of former courts and police station buildings.
DRAWING BOARD
It was hailed as “one of the UK’s most important regeneration projects.” But now the Blackpool Central site is going on the market following the collapse of the £300m leisure development project.
The move comes after Nikal, the developer
behind the plan – described as the largest single investment in the town for more than a century – appointed administrators.
Blackpool Central was to have been a year- round world-class leisure destination just off the resort’s famous Golden Mile. The aim was
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She added: “We have very high standards for the type of attraction which this site needs and any future scheme will have to match those ambitions. To deliver on that we need serious investors and we will be heavily marketing this opportunity to get that international calibre of attraction.”
An earlier report to the council said: “Over the course of the past few years we have been preparing the site to be drawn down by the developer.
“Work has included undertaking and having a CPO confirmed, negotiating and securing funding for the relocation of the courts, and we
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