Would you want to laughed at by the rest of the country like Preston is? Hyacinth Bucket syndrome.Why isn't Blackpool one of the 39 locations bidding for City Status? Lack of ambition to level up?
Milton Keynes applying for the 4th time. There's a feature on the BBC website. There is no additional funding from the change in status. It's all about the cachet.A number of cities are doss. Preston- Stoke On Trent- Hull etc.Nothing much to be gained by applying to be a city.
1000% agree.Blackburn and Warrington are going for it.
Blackpool only works if it’s the whole Fylde coast and some of the rural bits.
Well Bournemouth and Southend are 2 of the biddersAs a Holiday town does it really need to be a City?
Haven't Southend already been granted city status after David Amess' death?Well Bournemouth and Southend are 2 of the bidders
YesHaven't Southend already been granted city status after David Amess' death?
Southend are guaranteed it as a tribute to their murdered MP.Well Bournemouth and Southend are 2 of the bidders
Marazion is bidding. Population 1,500.Having been to Port Stanley it surely can’t get City status. It’s smaller than the Pleasure Beach!!!!!
That's what you get with a Labour Council.Our Council and its Cllrs cant run a ** town, never mind a City.
Gold Coast also has a cathedral of footballAt least T'Rovers City has a cathedral already, however its population, like Nobberville, is smaller than the Gold Coast
It'll never happen though, three different local councils and two authorities.Blackburn and Warrington are going for it.
Blackpool only works if it’s the whole Fylde coast and some of the rural bits.
Perhaps if someone bumps off Benton we’ll get city status.Southend are guaranteed it as a tribute to their murdered MP.
It’s weird but good to see how much investment is going on across the north west now Manchester has priced out developers. Preston and Burnley are having millions pumped into the town centres through the University and local councils.As a neutral, Preston is definitely on the up. There is a lot of investment going into the centre of Preston and with it being on the main line to Birmingham and London it does have a lot going for it. I'd say out of Manchester it's the place which is faring the best in the North West.
Has a nice ring to it.1000% agree.
The City of the Fylde
Surely Elgin is already a city. Their footy team has been called Elgin City for a few yearsElgin is applying
Elgin is a small market town with a big RAF base, also called a dormitory
And Port Stanley, Falklands
Very strange list
Not football wise it isn'tAs a neutral, Preston is definitely on the up.
I cannot see much major business investment going into Preston other than the likes of Aldi and greggs !! Certainly no new manufactures of note etc . It’s only the likes of UCLAN .Not football wise it isn't
and that like Sheffield is due to a lot of investment from Asia/SE Asia regarding Uni placementsI cannot see much major business investment going into Preston other than the likes of Aldi and greggs !! Certainly no new manufactures of note etc . It’s only the likes of UCLAN .
There is a lot of investment into city centre residentialI cannot see much major business investment going into Preston other than the likes of Aldi and greggs !! Certainly no new manufactures of note etc . It’s only the likes of UCLAN .
I live in St annes couldn't care less pal, bring it on.I think we should be awarded City status, taking in Lytham St. Anne's as suburbs. Their people would be apoplectic with anger....make me laugh, anyway.
And I was born there. But you will recognise the type, eh?I live in St annes couldn't care less pal, bring it on.
They tend to not come from here, and they tend to live in Lytham. St Annes very different to Lytham now.And I was born there. But you will recognise the type, eh?
Thanks. Worth knowing. Last time I lived in South Blackpool I used to cycle Sundays to the Taps - it was a long time ago. I guess that's the type I'm thinking of.They tend to not come from here, and they tend to live in Lytham. St Annes very different to Lytham now.
Lytham is full of a Lancashire version of Joey Essex types these days, people from East Lancashire and Greater Manchester that have made a few quid.
Most of St Annes is very much like FY4, and St Annes Square has a load of decent quirky little bars and restaurants now, whereas Lytham is full of over priced generic rip off places.
If you are looking for the old school Tory types there are still some in Lytham and Fairhaven lake areas but not so much in St Anne's.
Save yourself a few miles the taps isn't good anymore, hasn't been for a while. In Lytham the little micro is good but that's it.Thanks. Worth knowing. Last time I lived in South Blackpool I used to cycle Sundays to the Taps - it was a long time ago. I guess that's the type I'm thinking of.