New lease of life
The changes begin at the Christy Ring Bridge with new apartments, and continue all the way out to the Pole Field and the €100 million new Blackpool Shopping Centre with retail park, cinema, offices and multi-storey car parking.
The large scale and socially corrosive dereliction which took hold since the mid-1900s is now being eaten into with gusto by a range of new developments, many of them residential, and in the bulk of a number of schemes the architectural input is high, auguring well for future generations.
