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Plans to transform Weston-super-Mare's Tropicana into a 5,000-seater venue could be approved next week after the design was amended following criticism from locals.
Some local residents dubbed the building "brutalist" and a "1980s warehouse" when plans were unveiled in January, but now planning officers are recommending a softened design gets the go-ahead.
After closing as a pool in 2000, the Tropicana stood vacant for years until Banksy used it as the setting for his Dismaland bemusement park in 2015, since then it has been used as an events space for hire.
North Somerset received £20m from the government's Levelling Up Fund in 2022, and allocated a portion to revamp the 1930s former lido.
