Popular seaside town reveals £750k plans to restore pretty Victorian promenade – that’s been closed for 12 years

ONE of the UK's astir fashionable seaside destinations has revealed multi-million-pound plans to renovate its waterfront.

Part of the immense task volition spot Madeira Terrace, successful the fashionable seaside municipality of Brighton, renovated.

Sections of Madeira Terrace person been closed for 12 years due to the fact that the operation was deemed unsafe for visitors.

Madeira Terrace is an 865m-long agelong of seafront arches, with the Grade II* listed operation soon benefitting from a immense overhaul acknowledgment to £750,000 worthy of backing from Historic England.

Historic England's grant volition assistance to commencement the renovation project.

The archetypal signifier of the task volition spot 28 of its 151 ornate arches and bays restored.

A caller afloat accessible assistance volition besides beryllium installed, with operation enactment slated to commencement aboriginal this month.

Madeira Terrace was primitively built betwixt 1890 and 1897, during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Designed by Philip C Lockwood, the Victorian terrace was utilized arsenic a spot for locals and holidaymakers to instrumentality successful oversea views.

The covered walkway had a structure hallway and a three-stage assistance operation and is thought to beryllium the longest continuous cast-iron operation successful the UK.

Renovations to Madeira Promenade are portion of a multi-million-pound task that aims to make the seafront astir the Brighton Centre.

The Brighton Centre is simply a league and accumulation abstraction wherever bands similar The Jacksons, The Who, Queen and Bob Marley and The Wailers each played.

Brighton's Waterfront Project volition widen Churchill Square buying centre and supply a caller replacement league centre and amusement venue successful the city.

Tom Foxall, Regional Director of Historic England said: "The restoration of Madeira Terrace is an ambitious undertaking but 1 that is needed to unafraid the future of this bonzer operation for the radical of Brighton & Hove.

"This indispensable backing volition assistance successful de-risking the archetypal stages of the project.

"We afloat enactment the council’s repair strategy and look guardant to enactment opening connected tract imminently."

It's not the lone renovation task underway successful Brighton and Hove, with plans to extend the city's beach.

Planning applications were submitted earlier this twelvemonth to widen the formation successful Hove.

Fears of flooding and erosion across Brighton and Hove led to the caller plans.

The hold would spot a caller groyne tract - a enactment extortion operation - built connected the beach, if fixed the go-ahead.

The bays betwixt each groyne would past beryllium filled with thousands of tonnes of shingle.

The formation hold would beryllium betwixt King Alfred Leisure Centre and Second Avenue.

Earlier this year, a £13.7million renovation project introduced a caller formation park, gardens and a sports hub successful West Hove.

The Kingsway to the Sea task includes Hove Beach Park, with gardens and enactment spaces.

And past month, a wheeled sports country with a skateboard plaza, biking way and rollerblading country opened.

And if you fancy staying astatine the seaside resort, The Sun's Donna Smiley checked into Lansdowne House successful Hove - here's her verdict.

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