Morecambe's 10 year plan

[trevnhil]

Hi all..... but I don't think that is many these days. I have just been looking at the Visitor newspaper online and noticed that there was an article about the new Morecambe 10 year plan.

There is an online booklet about it all and you are asked to give your views of the Morecambe area action plan. MAAP

www.lancaster.gov.uk/morecambeaap







The last picture shows an area for possible use at what I call the Battery slipway. I think you would have to be Brave to put money into a retail venture there. It is certainly out on a limb, so to speak.

I certainly wish Morecambe very success, I have loads of very good memories from there.

Trev..

[mpprh]

Could the opportunity be the now boarded up Battery site itself ?

Peter

[trevnhil]

I had not thought about that Peter. But after Zooming in on the plan, it does indeed seem to include the block of buildings with the Battery in there...







Trev..

[mpprh]

Boarded up pubs bring a tear to the eye ?

Another :

[trevnhil]

It is a shame that there are boarded up properties in any town. OK you can understand in these times some businesses 'folding'.

It is an even bigger shame or scandal when it is houses that are boarded up, when there are so many people crying out for accommodation.

Trev..

[accykeef]

Sorry I have been absent for a while but I have a couple of big projects on the go which are taking up more time than I actually have.
As for the great plan of things, I heard enough at the local meetings I attended a few years back. I don't know what happened to that particular consulation thing but it seemed to die a death.
The people there came up with some numb ideas, in my opinion, of how to improve the area in general. The simplistic view of a certain group was to simply attract a lot of the big high street stores and then Morecambe would become a shopping heaven and people would travel from all over to shop here.

Maybe the area they have in mind is the one marked as the primary shopping area. Opening shops is one thing but getting people in there spending their sheckles is a totally different kettle of frogs altogether.

Many town centre areas of the country are suffering from a lack of foot traffic and this is for a number of reasons. Out of town shopping cities have sucked the life out of many town centres and I don't think that throwing some paint at some buildings is going to improve things much. I strongly believe that this area's fortunes could be much improved if they developed Hesham Harbour to it's full potential. To do the job properly, a serious link to the M6 has to be built in order for traffic to get in and out of the area easily.
I don't see why passenger services to Ireland have been all but withdrawn from Heysham. We looked into getting to Ireland and the best options are Holyhead, Liverpool or Stranraer, total madness as far as I am concerned.

[trevnhil]

It is obviously good to have a plan, and I know that Morecambe have had these plans before. I am not sure how close they were to what actually happened.

As Keith says it will be very difficult getting the people into the shops in the resort. And yet in the Visitor I read that a lot of the stallholders in the Festival market have had a very god years trading.
I would imagine that this has something to do with the (shopping) centre being around the Morrison's area now.

I was, and maybe still am, a supporter of the M6 link road. Last time I was there in 2009 one of the dreaded trips was from Morecambe or Heysham to Lancaster. especially in the rain. The link road would certainly help Heysham harbour.
Whether it would make any difference to the viability of a passenger service to Ireland I very much doubt. But almost all the ships that use Heysham Harbour are freight carriers, and they transport wagons to and from Ireland.
At least a link road would take that traffic out of Lancaster.

Trev..

[trevnhil]

Well i have just been reading the online edition of today's Lancaster Guardian.
It seems like there is a very real risk of all the surveys, and money spent up to now on the M6 link road being a total waste of time.

Otters have been spotted on the banks of the River Lune at Halton......

www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/lancaster-and-district-news/tv-star-backs-m6-link-otters-1-5133129

Trev..

[mpprh]

This is old news.

I have a friend with river frontage in Halton and I saw the otters in June.

On the other hand they are quite common and their population is growing across Europe. We have one in our local river and he comes to be fed bread on Saturdays.

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[trevnhil]

Very good picture on your link Peter.

The Otters may have been at Halton for a while, but they are now being used as an excuse / reason to scrap a multi million pound project.

Trev..