Talbot Gateway - Update !!!

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Regeneration specialist Muse is inviting bids to build a 142-bed hotel in Blackpool’s central business district.


The Holiday Inn hotel, which will be located on the site of the current Wilkinson’s building adjacent to Blackpool North railway station, forms part of the second phase of Muse Developments’ and Blackpool Council’s £100m Talbot Gateway regeneration scheme.
 
The five-storey building will feature a restaurant, bar, conferencing facilities and ground floor shops.
A temporary 127-space surface level car park and access improvements connecting the proposed new tram station and the railway station, also form part of the plans.


The works require the demolition of the existing Wilko’s retail store currently occupying the site.
Shortlisted firms will be invited to submit tenders in September with a view to work starting in Spring 2020.

s a local authority Blackpool Council can’t just dig up the roads and build a tramway. An application for an order under the Transport and Works Act 1992 was required, for powers to construct, operate and maintain the extension, which was granted by Central Government. Official permission was granted in March 2018.


The Blackpool tramway extension is one of six infrastructure projects to be delivered in the county by Transport for Lancashire. That’s the body formed in 2015 to develop, approve and fund major transport schemes with a multi-million pound budget devolved by the Department for Transport from 2015/16.

£16.4m towards the estimated £18.2m total cost of the project will be met by Transport for Lancashire. The group includes the region’s three transport authorities, Lancashire County Council, Blackpool Council and Blackburn with Darwen Council, together with the private sector led Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP).The proposed scheme was also subject to final funding approval by the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership.






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