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The decision is a blow for Blackpool and London's former Millennium Dome, which were the bookmakers' favourites.

The licence will allow Manchester to build a venue for up to 1,250 unlimited-jackpot gaming machines.

Meanwhile, licences were granted for new 'large' casinos to Great Yarmouth, Hull, Newham, Middlesbrough, Solihull, Milton Keynes, Leeds and Southampton.

The Casino Advisory Panel also granted licences for 'small' casinos to Bath and North East Somerset, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lindsey, Luton, Scarborough, Swansea, Torbay and Wolverhampton.

The super-casino would be based at Sportcity in the Beswick area, close to the City of Manchester Stadium in the east of the city.

The proposed site will also contain an entertainment complex with a range of facilities such as a multi-purpose arena, a swimming pool, an urban sports venue, restaurants, bars, a nightclub and a hotel.

MPs have final say

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell said MPs would be given the final say - via a Commons vote - on the proposals.

Manchester was a 16-1 outsider at the bookmakers to be selected as a test-bed for the UK's first regional 'resort' casino.

There has been speculation that more super-casino licences might be awarded but Ms Jowell told MPs that there would definitely be no more granted during this Parliament.

Any further casinos would have to be approved by parliament and would not be considered until there had been a 'proper evaluation over time' of the social and economic effects of the 17 new casinos.

She said: 'Las Vegas is not coming to Great Britain... British casinos will be subject to new controls, which will be the strictest in the world.'

Stephen Crow, chairman of the independent Casino Advisory Panel, said Manchester had been chosen because of its 'very thorough consultation' with the local community and 'the way it dealt with questions of problem gambling'.

'Manchester has a catchment area for a casino second only to that of London, and it is an area in need of regeneration at least as much as any of the others we observed,' he added.

Professor Crow told BBC News 24 the panel's decision was 'watertight' if it came to a legal challenge from any losing bidder.

Councillor Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said: 'This is fantastic news for Manchester, and the region.

'Smack in the face'

'Manchester has an unrivalled track record in the delivery of major regeneration schemes so we are confident we have the expertise to deliver a world-class venue, creating thousands of new jobs for local people.'

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However, Doug Garrett, chief executive of ReBlackpool, the urban regeneration company which worked on the town's bid, called the decision a 'smack in the face'.

'It is tragic. It is very difficult to see how they have drawn their conclusions,' he added.

Previous assessments had put Manchester at the bottom of the seven bidders, while all local government bodies and regeneration agencies in the region had backed Blackpool, Mr Garrett said.

'It is a very strange decision. We need to look into the rationale. Manchester has come from nowhere. It was a real, real dark horse,' he added.

A spokesman for Dome bidders AEG said: 'We are very disappointed that the London Borough of Greenwich has not been recommended as the location for the first regional casino.

'We are taking time to examine the findings in full and considering our position.'

Entertainment complex

Manchester's bid organisers said it would regenerate a poor area in the east of the city, promising a £265m investment and 2,700 direct and indirect jobs.

Conservative leader David Cameron said: 'It was the right decision that it went to the north of England and actually it's going to have a regeneration impact.

'I've nothing against Greenwich at all, but, after all, London did get the Olympics and so I think that either Manchester or Blackpool... probably made more sense.'

In the United Kingdom, a regional casino (super casino or mega casino) was the largest category of casino permitted under law – equivalent in size to the larger casinos in Las Vegas. The first regional casino was proposed in 2007 for Manchester, but the scheme was scrapped by the government in 2008.

History[edit]

The Gambling Act 2005 revised many regulations relating to gambling in England. Among the more controversial provisions was the establishment of a number of 'destination casinos' in the style of Las Vegas, referred to in the media as 'super casinos'

Initial drafts of the act proposed eight regional casinos, but concerns expressed in the national media and by a range of addiction-related social and religious groups meant that the final revision of the act permitted only one casino of the largest size, referred to as a 'regional casino', with a further eight 'large' and eight 'small' casinos of a smaller sizes and with reduced jackpot limits.

Prior to the act there were 140 casinos in the UK, the largest of which in Star City, Birmingham had a floor area of around 950 square metres (10,200 sq ft). Customers were required to register twenty-four hours prior to gaming.

Definition of casino types[edit]

Under the terms of the Gambling Act the Secretary of State is able to define each type of casino, with reference to any matter he or she chooses; although the act specifically mentions as facts to consider the number, location and concentration of gaming tables, and the floor area designated for a specific purpose.

Definitions were determined such that the 'super casino' would have a minimum customer area of 5000 square metres and at most 1250 unlimited-jackpot slot machines.

'Large casinos' would have a minimum area of 1000 square metres and up to 150 slot machines with a maximum jackpot of £4000.

The 'small casinos' would have a minimum customer area of 750 sq metres, up to 80 slot machines and a jackpot of £4000.

Shortlist and selection[edit]

In May 2006, a short-list of eight sites, selected from submissions by local councils, was announced for the regional casino. These were:

• Wembley Stadium, Brent, London (which removed itself from consideration prior to the decision being made)
• The O₂, Greenwich, London
• Sportcity, Manchester
• Bramall Lane, East End (Don Valley Stadium) or Meadowhall Centre, Sheffield
• Glasgow: many sites were put forward, including Ibrox Park

Wembley was later ruled out, according to the BBC: 'The decision came after the local council withdrew its support for the proposed £335m ($632m) gambling venue'.^{[citation needed]} This brought the number of potential venues down to seven. The O₂'s proposal was involved in controversy after it was revealed that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had stayed at the ranch of Philip Anschutz, whose Anschutz Entertainment Group was involved in the reopening of the Millennium Dome site as a sporting and entertainment venue. In August 2006 it was reported that construction of the shell of The O₂'s super casino site had already started.^[1]

Sites rejected at this shortlisting phase included:

• Solihull (National Exhibition Centre)

On 30 January 2007 it was announced that the first regional casino would be built in east Manchester near the City of Manchester Stadium.^[2] This was regarded as a shock to the Blackpool and The O₂ (formerly the Millennium Dome) bids, both of whom were regarded as the favourites.^[3] However, the Blackpool bid organisers pledged to continue the work in getting government approval for a 'supercasino'.

The Casino Advisory Panel also recommend the areas in which large casinos should be licensed: Great Yarmouth; Kingston-upon-Hull; Leeds; Middlesbrough; Milton Keynes; Newham; Solihull and Southampton.

Outcome[edit]

In March 2007, the House of Lords rejected the Gambling Order relating to the Manchester casino.^[4] In January 2008, under new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the government confirmed that plans for super casinos would be scrapped.^[5]

By November 2015, casinos in the 'large' category had opened in Milton Keynes, Newham and Solihull, with a fourth due to open in Leeds in 2016.^[6]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Dome super-casino 'not done deal''. 31 August 2006. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
2. ^BBC News, Manchester Wins Super-Casino Race, 30 January 2007
3. ^Matthew, Moore; Laura, Clout. 'Manchester is shock super-casino choice'. Daily Telegraph. Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
4. ^'Lords scupper super-casino plan'. BBC News: Politics. 28 March 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
5. ^'Super-casino proposal is ditched'. BBC News: Politics. 26 February 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
6. ^Wainwright, Daniel (9 November 2015). 'What happened to the wave of casinos?'. BBC News: England. Retrieved 4 August 2018.

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