Huge boost for famous UK seaside town as £10m to be spent on its ‘abandoned’ pier

Weston-super-Mare is successful Somerset and it's a favourite for galore Brits (Image: Getty Images)

A precise popular seaside town is astir to spot its derelict pier get a large refurbishment successful a precise breathtaking improvement for the much-loved coastal resort.

The National Lottery has unveiled a £10 cardinal restoration money for a 160-year-old pier successful Weston-super Mare, Somerset.

Currently, its Second World War pier is clinging connected for beingness and has been successful request of refurbishment for years.

Birnbeck Pier successful Weston-super Mare is simply a fashionable spot for day-trippers, particularly those who unrecorded successful the Midlands and are not precise adjacent to the seaside.

It was the lone pier successful the UK to nexus the mainland to the tiny land of Birnbeck but fell into disrepair and was closed to the nationalist astir 30 years ago.

The pier was archetypal opened 160 years agone (Image: Getty Images)

The generous £10 cardinal backing volition reconstruct the pier backmost to its erstwhile glory - and it volition beryllium usable to the nationalist erstwhile again.

Weston-super-Mare's politician John Crockford-Hawley welcomed the announcement, saying helium was 'delighted' to spot the listed pier beryllium resurrected.

He told the Guardian: “I'm aged capable to retrieve erstwhile it was successful afloat fling. As a young teenager, my mum would springiness maine and my friends sandwiches and disconnected we'd spell connected a paddle steamer. We'd spell cruising astir the transmission oregon down to Ilfracombe. It was each large fun.”

The announcement was made 160 years to the time since the pier’s instauration chromatic was laid connected 28 October, 1864.

The £10 cardinal refurbishment is owed to commencement successful 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

It is portion of North Somerset Council's ambitions to 'reopen the pier and enactment the wider regeneration of Weston' - plans for the restoration purpose to commencement successful 2025.

“£10 cardinal is simply a important magnitude of wealth – we are truthful grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund for their ongoing enactment of our task to reconstruct Birnbeck Pier,” said Councillor Mike Bell, person of North Somerset Council. 

“I indispensable besides admit and convey National Lottery players arsenic this simply wouldn't person been imaginable without them.”

Eilish McGuinness, main enforcement of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said the wealth volition bring the pier 'back from the brink of loss', ensuring its affluent past is 'preserved' for aboriginal generations. 

“We are arrogant to beryllium portion of this transformative project, which promises to heighten and regenerate the taste and economical scenery of the area, supply section employment opportunities and beryllium a root of pridefulness and enjoyment for generations to come” she added.