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The UK seaside resort of Southport is to get a new waterpark this summer. Splash World opens at the Dune’s Leisure Centre, across the road from the defunct Pleasureland theme park, on June 30.
The council-run attraction is being kitted out by Van Egdom from the Netherlands and will include a 4-lane multi slide, tube ride, lazy river, aqua arch, mushroom, turtle slide and a custom-made water playground. A number of the slides will incorporate Van Egdom’s new Tube Sensations lighting effects. The temperature inside the undercover facility will be a constant 85ºF (30ºC).
Sefton Borough Council, which bought the Pleasureland lease back from Blackpool Pleasure Beach Ltd in April, is to work with local man Norman Wallis to develop the site. Many of the park’s former rides and attractions have been sold or destroyed but for the time being a travelling fair will appear on the site this summer.
“It has always been our intention to secure the best possible outcome for the site and to ensure that we can complement our already extensive developments on the seafront,” reports council chief executive, Graham Haywood.
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