More than £17m is to be invested into the development of a new multi-purpose events centre in Southport.
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority is to provide vital funding to Sefton Council to build the new Marine Lake Events Centre, which includes a 1,500 capacity theatre as well as exhibition and conference facilities. The cash injection from the city region’s strategic investment fund will help provide a new facility to replace the existing Southport Theatre and Convention Centre which closed in 2020.
The convention centre has substantial technical and operational constraints, as well as being in poor physical condition. A feasibility study to consider the potential options for the future development of the site found the “optimum option” was a new venue that will act as an anchor for the Southport waterfront.
