Lend Lease said healing the wound would be the key its design for a new shopping, leisure and housing area.

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On Thursday the duke and duchess were in Glasgow, where they visited venues being used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, as well as the Stopover Project homeless shelter and the Donald Dewar Leisure Centre in the Drumchapel area.

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The company plans to transform the dock area with offices, leisure and homes, and will start building in 2012 if it gets the go-ahead.

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Neath Port Talbot council insists a new leisure complex will be worthy of the area, but others fear it will not be as good as the old lido.

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Dumfries and Galloway Council said it was working with others to "reposition" the area as a "distinctive and successful marine leisure destination".

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Moganshan was popular with expats with leisure time before the Communist revolution, and many older structures in the area are still standing in an area with a striking bamboo forest.

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Jon McCarthy, LXB development director, said the project would offer "employment, leisure and tourism attributes" and a "widened retail choice" for the area.

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Councillor Glenn Jordan, Plymouth City Council's Cabinet Member for Leisure, Culture and Sport, said: ''I would like to encourage everyone in the Plymouth area to sign up and take part in our local event.

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