PLANS for a £150m millennium Ocean Dome at New Brighton are launched today by Wirral Council.
This ambitious water-based indoor waterpark with retractable roofing would offer the best of both worlds and be on the Marine Lake or old New Brighton Bathing Pool site.
Funding has to be found - as is the backing of the people of Wirral - and it would take 20 months to construct.
However, Wirral's Ocean Dome team of councillors and council officers are very excited at the prospect of this 2001 'water space odyssey'.
But they do not want to build residents' hopes too high, after previous plans for a new New Brighton Tower went pear-shaped. Funding and private investment will have to be found.
"No hasty decisions will be taken and a feasibility study is the first stage in a very long process," says Wirral's special projects officer Howard Mortimer.
The 12-point millennium plan for New Brighton includes a more modest New Brighton Tower (see illustration), botanic gardens, a new leisure area at the bottom of Victoria Road, a new ferry boat jetty, facelift for the Floral Pavilion, a new hotel, a 'friendly' land train line along the prom from Seacome to the new pub at the old Derby Pool site.
The Globe shares the dream and will keep readers fully informed of developments. Let us know what you think.
Report by Editor Robin Bird
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