2015 An Excellent Season

Now that we are nearly into October it is a good time to look back over the last few months and see how it has gone.Well. From all the reports in the local press and from conversations I have had it would appear that 2015 has been an excellent season here in Skegness.

The hotels have been very busy and the local holiday businesses have reported having had good takings.

Great to see the new Skegness Aquarium up and running and from reports it would appear that they have made a good start. It is really good to see an attraction that is truly 12 months of the year on our seafront. I hope that there will be more of this excellent type of development in the future. Add this to the established attractions in the town and it is easy to see why the resort remains so popular.

Talking about our seafront it is undergoing and has undergone a lot of changes over the last few years. Some would say it is for the better and some would say that it is not. Whatever your view the town cannot stand still or it will fall behind and the seasons will go into decline. The town and the businesses in it need to be creating more job opportunities for the local people. I know that in years gone by there were lots of open green spaces and few neon lights etc., but, as has been said many times in different quarters, the town needs to develop to keep attracting the business.  You cannot have development and change and expect everything to stay the same. It doesn't work that way.

As a town and a local population, we need to be welcoming to new businesses that wish to come to us. It is external investment that is needed as well as local business expansion, such as the very welcome Aquarium.

A good season then and lets look forward to the next one, not forgetting of course the out of season offerings between now and then. That is for next time!