Blackpool Submits Formal Planning Application

Blackpool will finally be submitting a formal planning application for its bid on a super casino next week.

The town is hoping that even if the approval will not be in place before the Casino Advisory Panel by the time that they visit Blackpool on Sept. 8, it will already have outline permission for the plans by the end of October.

Blackpool has always held back on process of getting formal approval on the planning application even as some of the rival bidders already have permission for their casino plans.

However, after positive feedback to designs by American architects Gensler for the Central Station site, the planning application will be brought to the council next week.

It is scheduled to be brought before Blackpool Council's development control committee by the end of September.

"The plans are due to be submitted next week and we hope to have outline permission in place later in the year, before the Casino Advisory Panel makes its decision on where the licence will go," Doug Garrett, chief executive of ReBlackpool, said.

"The response from the consultation has been very good indeed. People have been positive about what they have seen. The scheme is not the one for delivery. This is to demonstrate what the site can take and the commercial reality and vision for it. It fulfils its purpose on that precisely," he added.