Time running out for Tropicana
 
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Weston-Super-Mare's Tropicana will be knocked down if no-one comes forward to save it by the end of the year.
 
North Somerset Council are deciding on Tuesday whether to look for a developer to take on a smaller scale redevelopment without a big swimming pool. If they can't find anyone by December it'll be knocked down.

The recommendations by a working group set up after the collapse of the third attempt by private enterprise to regenerate the Tropicana will be discussed by North Somerset Council's Executive. They say the council should do a 'soft market-testing exercise' and invite entrepreneurs to come forward with proposals to refurbish the existing front of the building, and turn the old pool area into a leisure/retail /restaurant type of venue.

If no-one can be found by December the council are likely to commit to demolishing the site - it would cost atound £700,000 to clear the buildings, replace the sand and reinstate the sea wall.