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Council plans 1,000 new homes after £15.5m shopping centre deal

Inside Housing

Bradford Council has completed the purchase of a brutalist 1970s shopping centre, with the aim of building 1,000 homes in the city centre. The local authority purchased Kirkgate Shopping Centre for £15.5m. It will be demolished and replaced with housing, green space and shops as part of plans to transform the city centre. The deal forms part of the council’s ‘City Village’ – a planned sustainable neighbourhood – which will now stretch across 13 acres of Bradford city centre. The purchase has also enabled the number of planned homes for…

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Sefton gets ball rolling on Marine Lake Events Centre

Place North West

With business case approval for the £75m Southport destination now agreed, investigatory works are to begin, enabling finalisation of designs. Letters have been sent to local residents to inform them that investigatory works on the existing Southport Theatre and Convention Centre site and the Upper Promenade, informing the recipients that works will be ongoing from Monday 8 August. Expected to take around four weeks using a weekday workday pattern between 8am and 6pm, investigations will involve assessing the underground conditions to progress the design further. Measures will be in place…

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Blackpool approves Odeon cinema conversion

Place North West

Austringer Capital has been granted permission to convert the building at Festival Leisure Park into four food and drink units and family entertainment centre.  The developer lodged the application so that it could secure another use for the building if Odeon decides to vacate the 45,000 sq ft premises when its lease expires next year.  “It is considered that converting the building to another leisure use will be beneficial to the health of the town centre,” a planning statement by WSP said.  “It would ensure the new MMC nine-screen cinema complex…

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