About Our Transformation

Together with our private and public partners, including ReBlackpool, the Urban Regeneration Company for Blackpool, there are a number of large scale investments and regeneration projects which will deliver a huge step change in the prosperity of our town, its people and its businesses. The scale of the developments is breathtaking.

The developments already started and those in the pipeline include:

  • Talbot Gateway – a £258m, 30 hectare, civic and cultural quarter featuring new retail commercial, community, residential and civic office accommodation. The developers have now been confirmed as Muse Developments.
  • A £100m development of Blackpools seafront and the Headland Project with funding from various national and European sources
  • A Tram upgrade programme of £85m
  • An expansion of the privately owned Blackpool Airport recently aquired by Balfour Beatty
  • Delivering a successful £14m of LEGI fund to stimulate and release economic and productivity potential by supporting enterprise and investment in Blackpool.

Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI) Final Submission (Adobe PDF, 1.21Mb)

  • A Joint Venture with English Partnerships, of initially £30m for housing intervention projects
  • A Building Schools for the Future programme of £145m
  • Our housing ALMO recently received £66m
  • A £35m redevelopment of the 6th Form College
  • The development of a University Campus for Blackpool and the Fylde College
  • £100m relocation of our FE college to the Town Centre
  • The potential relocation of the V&A National Theatre Museum to Blackpool
  • An ambition for UNESCO World Heritage Status
  • The redevelopment of the world famous Winter Gardens conference and entertainment complex.
  • The £35m extension of the Honds Hill shopping centre (due to open Sept 08).
  • The development of one of only a handful of Multi Area Agreements nationally with Fylde, Wyre and Lancashire County Councils.

Blackpool Sustainable Community Strategy (Adobe PDF, 1.06Mb)

Flyde Coast Multi-Area Agreement (Adobe PDF, 584Kb)

Heritage Strategy (Adobe PDF, 1.02Mb)

Action Plan for Sustainable Growth (Adobe PDF, 1.29Mb)

Blackpool Council