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£8.5m refurb plan for Blackpool resort creating 40 new jobs

A burned out shell of a building in Blackpool is to be converted into a new 131 room Hampton by Hilton costing £3.5m.

Blackpool based Create Developments has submitted a planning application, to convert the old Palm Beach hotel and the Bourne hotel on Wimbourne Place, to Blackpool Council.

The firm has been working with the landowners for three years with the site and the new refurbishment plans should create 40 new jobs in the process.

The new hotel should open in Spring 2017.

Create Developments’ managing director, Paul Mathison, told the Blackpool Gazette: “This has been a long and arduous journey for everyone involved but there has been a strong desire from all parties to make this scheme work and create something that the town and the residents can be proud of.

“The investment in the seafront has given a positive feel to the area but the number of run-down and boarded up hotels spoils the vista.

“Hopefully, our development will be the catalyst for other operators to invest in the area and complement the quality bed-stock in the area offered by hotels such as the Big Blue and No 1 South Beach.”

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