Development proposals
Southview Leisure Park
Southview Leisure Park is situated on the outskirts of Skegness on the main Skegness to Lincoln A158 road. Southview Leisure Park currently covers a total of 185 acres and is a high quality family orientated park, having approval for a total of 1750 holiday homes and 100 touring caravans. Facilities on site include a Leisure Centre, with a swimming pool, snooker lounge, gymnasium, sauna, solariums, bistro and restaurant and a recently extended 9 hole golf course. Other facilities include an outdoor children’s play park, a bowling green and four fishing lakes.
Southview Leisure Park already has ongoing extension plans and has recently gained planning permission for an additional 500 holiday homes and a large extension as well as refurbishment of the existing Family Entertainment Centre, which incorporates the licensed cabaret bar, family room, amusements and snack bar.
Southview proposes to develop a 750m2 casino, to add a further 150 bedrooms of high quality hotel accommodation, together with conference facilities for 500 delegates, and to open a cabaret and show bar accommodating 800-1000 customers, a leisure and fitness centre and some retailing as well.
The Vernon family, who own Southview Leisure Park, have confirmed that they have the resources to meet the estimated £15 to £20m cost of this development.
Spend at the new casino will primarily be by tourists. We estimate that residents will spend £340,000 at the casino and that visitors will spend £1.93m on gaming in addition to 1.13m on catering. Visitors are drawn primarily from the industrial areas of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire, with a combined population of some four million, but to a significant extent from elsewhere in the UK and from other countries.
Southview Leisure Park. Please click the image to view it at a larger size.