Gateway Merseyside On Abandoned Plan for Southport’s Pleasureland
Plans have been abandoned to transform Southport’s Pleasureland site in an £80m development. Announced in March 2008, the proposals were intended to launch the “reinvention of the seaside resort”. The developers, Urban Splash, and site owners Sefton council, have decided to go their separate ways after the project was negatively affected by the recession. Council leader Peter Dowd admits there is no future plans for the site. “It’s quite a shame,” said a source at Gateway Merseyside, a Liverpool-based sales...
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