Update on Fleetwood People’s Pier as company takes next step in plans to revive landmark
Community company Fleetwood People’s Pier has launched its own website.
Campaigners who want to take back the old Fleetwood Pier site and redevelop it have set up a new website.
Fleetwood People’s Pier CIC officially launched the site with an aim to keep people up-to-date with developments, how they can be involved or what to do to support it.
The non-profit company wants to turn the former Fleetwood Pier site into a vibrant attraction and revive the town itself.
Fleetwood People’s Pier CIC is the brainchild of ex-world champion boxer Jane Couch and George Greenall, who has led community projects in the past.
They have joined forces with Fleetwood business folk Jill Wilson, Fiona Bradford and Darren and Deb Greenwood who are the directors of the community interest company.
Fleetwood Pier burned down in 2008 and, after demolition and site clearance, there has been nothing there since, although an empty plot in front of the beach still holds potential.
But the CIC team believe there is a golden opportunity to revive this part of the seafront, via a long term coordinated plan.
And they say the many people in the town are right behind them.
The new website has contact information, how the company was formed, who’s who and what the latest plans are.
The company’s initial aim is to develop a modern site, incorporating a social hub/cafe and a market place built from six wooden huts, a jetty out to sea and possibilities of outdoor events spaces to include a cinema and rides.
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The group say their initiative aligns directly with Fleetwood’s long term regeneration priorities by creating employment, improving economic resilience, and providing a modern community focal point.
George said: “Fleetwood People’s Pier CIC has been formed as a non-political, non-profit making organisation. We aim to develop and deliver a strategy which hopes to reverse the ongoing decline of our once prosperous town, since the demise of the fishing industry in the 1970s.
Jane, awarded the MBE in 2007 for services to boxing, said: “A lot of shops and attractions in Fleetwood have closed down, this town desperately needs reviving.
“By involving local firms in the construction we can keep costs low and make things more affordable.”