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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 resort's famous Golden Mile and will include a new multi-storey car park and Heritage Quarter, with other aspects of the development included in outline. The largest single investm...

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 up with tarmac. It’s not good enough any improvements have to last. The council has a track record...

A huge new theme park is opening an hour's drive from Manchester - and it's 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 information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with o...

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