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Sazz
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06-04-2004 10:33 AM
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Joined: 14 Jan 2004
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| The sight of plastic bottoms and breasts on Blackpool's seafront could soon be a thing of the past.
The resort will be cleared of tacky gifts such as inflatable body parts, fake guns and rude T-shirts, under proposals revealed yesterday.
The Lancashire town's council, police, trading standards officials and businesses have pledged to promote the resort as a high-quality family destination.
Traders will be asked to adopt a voluntary code of conduct to overhaul the resort's image. Sex toys, crass T-shirts, pop-guns, knives and drug-taking paraphernalia are all deemed undesirable.
Shop owners will also be encouraged to tidy their storefronts, remove unsightly advertising boards and employ well-dressed people. And there are plans to divide the beach into zones for sunbathing, playing, jet-skiing and water sports - oh, and donkey rides.
Lawrence James, who drew up the code for the local authority, said: 'Blackpool is a place where people come to have fun but some people's idea of a good time is often off-putting to families and older people.
'We are not killjoys - but many of the items routinely on sale in the town are not appropriate for a resort which wants to welcome everyone.' Cllr Eddie Collett said the code was not just about improving buildings.
He added: 'It's about a commitment to a highquality experience too.
The code is an essential philosophy to the future success of Blackpool.'
from thisistravel.co.uk
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beenthere done it
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22-05-2006 04:54 PM
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Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 3
| Well its 22 may 2006 now and the great blackpool council has done nothing to ban anything, its even worse now with shops full of guns, knives, daggers and swords, mind you the place is empty of holiday makers, no familys here, due to the high cost of parking, speed cameras, and traffic wardens all over the place, they must have more of them than the police who you only see at night when the drunks are out, or someones been stabbed or mugged even during the day, no shops the houndshill centre is empty, due to redevelopment, we still have the ££ shops and the tacky shops up and down, mind you not a lot of them either, and the amusements and BPB shutting early no customers, NO SHOWS nothing on NORTH PIER, and the place is empty:cool: we do get the idiots in on the weekends, but again not as many , too many restrictions on drinking no cheap offers:icon_grrs its cheaper to fly abroad:cheers:
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dimples
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28-06-2006 03:35 PM
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Joined: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 6
| Blackpool used to be visited just for its tutt and tatt, they certainly seem to be dragging the place down in an attempt of bringing it into a higher class.
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