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Archive for November, 2007

New Tropicana images

For those that didn’t attend the public exhibitions, below are some of the images presented by Henry Boot to show how their proposed Tropicana development in Weston-super-Mare will look. You can find the full details here.

What do you think? You can comment on these images by clicking on the comments link below. Thanks.

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Latest press coverage

The Weston and Worle News November 22nd offers the following Tropicana coverage this week:
Give us some perspective amid calls for better artists impressions of the scale of the proposed Tropicana design.
Residents consider proposals at the public meetings organised by Henry Boot around Weston.
The Weston & Worle News also reports on the launch of TropicanaWatch.
The Weston [...]

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Pool operator confirmed

The Weston Mercury has news about the pool operator who will run the ’splash pool’ at the proposed new Tropicana.
The firm chosen, Lemur Leisure, run the ‘Splashdown’ water park in Poole.

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The Weston and Worle News offers its take on the Tropicana plans.

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Mercury Online poll

The Weston and Somerset Mercury is running an online poll on their home page asking if you like the new Tropicana designs. Click here to vote.

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So what do you think?

Henry Boot Developments have launched their latest plans for the Tropicana. This is what it looks like:

The proposals mean:

A 96 bed hotel being built on our beach
An eight screen cinema being built on our beach
479 car parking spaces being built on our beach AND Beach Lawns
A ’splashdown’ swimming pool.

So what do you think?

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Public exhibitions
Henry Boot and Life Property will be holding public exhibitions on the following dates to show off their plans for the Tropicana.

Thursday 15 November, 3pm-8pm, Worle Community Centre
Friday 16 November, 11am-7pm, The Campus, Locking Castle
Saturday 17 November, 11am-5pm, Winter Gardens

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What is this site about?

Mike Bell and the TropicanaWatch team have three key priorities for the future of the Tropicana site:

Real action to get the Tropicana re-opened
A swimming pool at the heart of any redevelopment
A local solution with local people and local ideas put first

Whilst we don’t necessarily support the Henry Boot scheme for the Tropicana (see The Problem [...]

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