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Updated Tuesday, 4th May 2021, 10:34 am Blackpool Central is set to include an indoor theme park, family rides, and a new public square for live events, such as music concerts. The complex’s backers, Nikal Ltd and Media Invest Entertainment, say it could bring an additional 600,000 visitors to the resort every year, and create up to 1,000 new jobs. Now a consultation has been launched on plans for the first phase of the huge new attraction, which includes a new 1,300 space multi-storey car p...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history. Boltonians of a certain age will remember fondly the ‘day trip’ to Blackpool, by train. It has a history stretching back to the middle of the 19th century and was known for generations as ‘th’ chep (cheap) trip’. Allen Clarke, in his novels, poetry and dialect sketches wrote loving...

Dan Whelan The former managing director has left the property company he co-founded with Alan Murphy in 2003 after 18 years at the helm.  According to Nick Payne’s Linkedin profile, he left developer Nikal in January and is now listed as an “unattached” real estate specialist.  The reasons behind his departure are not yet known. Both Payne and Nikal have been contacted for comment but had yet to provide statements about the news at the time of publication.   Payne has also stepped down...

Dan Whelan The former managing director left to pursue other interests, as the company prepares to roll out a revised business model that will see it move away from development towards a more investment-led approach.  Nick Payne, who co-founded developer Nikal Group with Alan Murphy in 2003, told Place North West that his departure from the company at the start of the year had been amicable.  “I spent 18 years at Nikal and it seemed like the right time to go and explore new ideas before I ...

Dan Whelan Developers Nikal and Media Invest Entertainment aim to submit a planning application for the first phase of the leisure project in April. Proposals include a 1,300-space multistorey car park and a heritage quarter. “We’re looking to create something never seen before, with world-class rides and family entertainment, Blackpool Central will provide year-round attractions that will complement and future proof the town’s tourism offer,” said Norbert Reichart, chief executive of�...

Plans for a major new leisure destination in Lancashire are to take a step forward. Nikal Ltd and Media Invest Entertainment have announced that a consultation is due to be launched in the coming weeks on a planning application that will transform a Lancashire town, creating up to 1,000 jobs and boosting tourism.  The planning application is for the first phase of Blackpool Central, just off the seaside resorts famous Golden Mile and will include a new multi-storey car park and Herita...

Whatever Blackpool council does it won’t reflect local people’s views, you only have to look at the democratic masterclass that is the Stanley Park golf course development. When the council builds anything you can bet your life it looks shabby in five years. Look at parts of south promenade rusting already and who will be paying for this replacement of cheap materials? – the local people. As for any newly laid precincts give the council a couple of months before it’s dug up and patched ...

A huge new theme park is opening an hours drive from Manchester - and its inspired by a book that says aliens have visited earth Blackpool Council is planning to compel landowners to sell up to make way for a £300m entertainment complex (Image: Blackpool Council) Sign up to the M.E.N.s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kidsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the informat...

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