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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 park (MSCP), and will restore the existing heritage buildings on the site, off the Golden Mile, to cr...

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 lovingly and realistically about it - an important part of life in Bolton and all of the Lancashire cotton...

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 as a member of Blackpool’s Town Deal board, a committee set up to guide the development of Govern...

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 get too old,” he said.  “I can’t give you any drama. I have a burning desire to explore new 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 Media Invest.  A public consultation on the proposals for the £300m Blackpool Central project is...