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

BBC: Guildford developer will 'heal ugly wound'

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.

BBC: Afan Lido after the fire

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

BBC: Rushden Lakes retail park 'no threat to town centre'