Blackpool secures heritage funding for Marton Mere

Blackpool has secured a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £330,000 to undertake one of the biggest green space projects the town has seen in many years.

Marton Mere is the only designated local nature reserve and site of special scientific interest within the town and is nationally recognised for its bird populations.

The three year project is set to begin in January 2014 and volunteers are now being urged to get involved.

As well as the new visitor centre – which Bourne Leisure have agreed to be sited on the fringe of the Marton Mere Holiday Village site – and improvements to the hides, there will also be a whole host of other work taking place.

A significant amount of specialist reed, scrub and grassland habitat management work will take place as well as the creation of special feeding and nesting habitats for waders and skylarks.