{"id":23767,"date":"2019-08-30T16:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=23767"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:48:04","slug":"southampton-city-council-ends-450m-waterfront-development-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23767","title":{"rendered":"Southampton City Council ends \u00a3450m waterfront development deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23768\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bbc_300819-252x300.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/>Southampton\u2019s proposed Royal Pier Waterfront scheme \u2013 a \u00a3450m waterfront development deal to include a hotel and a casino on land reclaimed from the River Test in Southampton &#8211; has been terminated by the\u00a0 City Council.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC\u00a0 writes:<\/p>\n<p>Southampton City Council said it had ended an agreement signed in 2014 with developer RPW Southampton Ltd but did not explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Daniel Fitzhenry said the scheme was back at &#8220;base point&#8221;\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Southampton City Council said: &#8220;As one of the landowners of Royal Pier Waterfront, Southampton City Council terminated the conditional landowner development agreement with RPW (Southampton) Limited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The authority said it &#8220;welcomes all expressions of interest from potential investors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative group leader Daniel Fitzhenry said he believed the deal had been cancelled due to insufficient progress\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-49361641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For morebackground see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/450m-flagship-regeneration-project-scrapped\/48051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LocalGov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton\u2019s proposed Royal Pier Waterfront scheme \u2013 a \u00a3450m waterfront development deal to include a hotel and a casino on land reclaimed from the River Test in Southampton &#8211; has been terminated by the\u00a0 City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23769,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions\/23769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}