Properties between Cookson Street, Milbourne Street, George Street and Grosvenor Street will be flattened
Blackpool regeneration chiefs are poised to use compulsory powers to demolish an area of the resort to make way for a new education campus. Councillors are being asked to approve use of a compulsory purchase order to buy up and bulldoze properties between Cookson Street, Milbourne Street, George Street and Grosvenor Street required for the £65m multiversity.
Council leader Coun Lynn Williams has pledged support to all residents who need to move out of their homes. She said: “This development is game changing in terms of our plans to make Blackpool better, but we do very clearly understand the impact on people living in the properties we’re buying. We are buying their homes.
Residents raised concerns about having to move out during a public meeting in March, with some saying they had not been offered enough money to buy similar properties elsewhere, while others did not want to leave the neighbourhood due to its proximity to the town centre.
It will replace the existing campus on Park Road, bring 3,000 staff and students into the town centre and offer 70 courses. Alun Francis, principal and chief executive at Blackpool and The Fylde College said it would be “one of the best things to happen to Blackpool for a generation.”
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