- By Rebecca Wearn & Lynette Horsburgh
- BBC News
Pontins mentioned a closure because of flooding had now been made everlasting
A 3rd Pontins site has been closed inside weeks of the agency shutting two different vacation parks.
Its site at Southport held a New Year’s Eve occasion for households on Sunday, however was closed within the final 24 hours because of flooding attributable to Storm Henk.
Pontins mentioned that closure had now been made everlasting.
In an announcement on its web site, it mentioned after assessing the “future viability of the park, we have come to the difficult decision to close our doors”.
The BBC has been instructed workers in Southport had been knowledgeable shortly earlier than lunchtime that the site can be “closing for good”, however has not spoken to any of these affected.
Britannia Hotels, which owns the Pontins model, has been repeatedly contacted for remark and additional data.
The group’s web site states that it took management of web sites at Southport, Prestatyn, Brean Sands in Somerset, Camber Sands in Sussex and Pakefield in Suffolk in 2011.
It later took over a sixth site at Sand Bay, close to Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, which had previously been a Pontins, however left the agency’s portfolio in 1999.
Rave Kidz, which was because of maintain a weekend occasion for households on the Southport site in February, mentioned it had been emailed by Pontins confirming the closure.
They mentioned they had been working to reschedule at one other venue and would inform ticketholders as quickly as they will.
The dance occasion enterprise organised greater than 28 occasions throughout the nation in 2023, internet hosting hundreds of households.
Southport’s Conservative MP Damien Moore mentioned whereas the closure was worrying for workers, it offered a chance for the realm.
“Whilst the closure of Pontins is clearly concerning for the staff who I’m sure will be shocked, it provides a fantastic opportunity for a high-quality holiday accommodation provider to take over the site,” he mentioned.
“Given its excellent location next to Ainsdale beach, with suitable investment, it could offer a substantial economic boost to Ainsdale and the wider Southport area.”
Sefton Council, which is the landowner in Southport, mentioned that they had not been knowledgeable concerning the closure.
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