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WEST LANCASHIRE

Vol 28 Issue 15

14 April 2021

www.champnews.com

New hope for Parbold Hill Campaigners

INSIDE THIS WEEK:

Tributes to Duke of Edinburgh

There’s a spring in our step as... l Borough opens up after lockdown l Ambitious scheme announced for shopping centre l Town plan surges ahead... and the Champion is back!

A WHOLE NEW WONDERWORLD! AMBITIOUS proposals which will see the second floor of the Concourse Shopping Centre redeveloped to create a ten pin bowling alley, an indoor mini golf course and an amusements arcade with dodgems, have been validated by West Lancashire Borough Council. News of the ‘WonderWorld’ scheme’s progression comes as West Lancs reopens again after lockdown and the Skelmersdale regeneration scheme forges ahead. The plan for WonderWorld also includes an inflatable obstacle course with toddler play area; a bar, with recreational space and pub games; and an American style diner, in the coming weeks. This complex would also include electronic darts, cocktail bar with performance stage, and a digital area with VR room and 4D cinema. The complex would be open from 10am to 11pm seven days a week and

Report by Henry James employ 45-60 staff in a mix of full and part-time hours. The proposals were first highlighted on the Champion’s Facebook page in February and came after it was announced that a two-screen cinema (Ultra Star Cinema) would be arriving at the shopping centre on the ground floor. The council has said the WonderWorld scheme will “enhance the leisure offer” within Skelmersdale and the Borough as a whole and “go towards a key strategic aim of the Council” to “make Skelmersdale a leisure, recreational and retail centre of excellence within the North West.” The amusements arcade and dodgems will be similar to the Namco Funscape at the Trafford Centre, which is a very popular attraction. Cont. inside

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Groundwork has started on the Skelmersdale regeneration scheme

Diggers move in to herald start of regeneration work AS our pictures show, work has been pressing ahead on the new Skelmersdale town centre and its anchor stores Lidl and B&M Bargains. Work got underway in the New Year and diggers have been clearing the way for building work to start. The steel frames of the new retail units will begin to appear behind the wooden hoardings from late spring to early summer 2021. At the end of last year, West Lancashire Borough Council stated the plan was that the development would be operational from Easter 2022. The redevelopment scheme is a partnership between the Borough Council and developer St Modwen and has been supported by the Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership.

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