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Public meeting over the
Development Strategy for Southport Town Centre
THIS will be a public meeting run by
The Federation of Small Businesses Sefton and Ormskirk branch, that will take
place on Wednesday, 20 May 2015, at the Old Links Golf Club, Moss Lane,
Southport, PR9 7QS. A finger buffet will start the event from 6.30pm and the
meeting will start at 7.00pm. The meeting will focus on the development strategy
for Southport Town Centre, featuring Sefton Council and Nexus Planning. If you
do not know what it is all about, Sefton Council, in partnership with the
Southport Business Improvement District, has appointed Nexus Planning to draw up
a development strategy for Southport Town Centre. Nexus Planning is to identify
the redevelopment options for a number of sites, including Marine Park on
Southport's seafront, and Tulketh Street, a commercial site. Nexus aims to
establish a strategy conducive to attracting private sector investment into the
town, which will be used to guide the activity of the BID over the next 5 years.
Nexus Planning will be working on the first draft of the development strategy
over the final quarter of 2014, and the 1st quarter of 2015. The strategy, due
for delivery by 2030, will look at how Southport can regenerate and grow its
visitor economy as a classic resort, including a study of the design, access and
investment opportunities in and around Lord Street, the canopied Victorian
boulevard which forms the historic heart of the Town.
Formby remembers the
end of World War 2
A small service of remembrance took
place on Sunday, 10 May 2015, at Our Lady of Compassion Church, Formby,
Merseyside, marking the 70th Anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe). The
event was not as heavily advertised as many of the others have been in the past,
but turn out was extremely good and if more people had attended, it would not
have been easy to accommodate them, as the larger Church that the Formby Royal
British Legion uses is currently undergoing major renovations. The date was
picked as it was the closest Sunday to Friday, 8 May, when 70 years before, on
that very same day in 1945, a public holiday was held to mark the formal
acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional
surrender of its armed forces. That was first known as V Day, but generally,
over time became it became known as VE Day. After the service those attending
went to a reception at Formby Sports and Social Club, Whitehouse Lane, formerly
the Royal British Legion Club. At the reception, guests were given food and
drink, as the Marshside Brass Band entertained them. We should never as a nation
forget the bravery of World War 2 veterans nor those lost during that war, on
all sides, in order they we may never repeat the mistakes made again. If you
have any memories of the 1st VE Day, please let us know. We would love to hear
them and capture them for historical record. Our email is
news24@southportreporter.com.
To see our photographic coverage and some video
footage of the event, please click on
here now.
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