Tropicana, Weston-super-Mare

The Tropicana, formerly a Lido site that once contained an outdoor swimming pool, is located in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England.

[2] The site was first developed as a 950 square metres (10,200 sq ft)[3] swimming pool in 1937 and included an art deco diving board.

In February 2013, the council granted planning permission to a consortium of local businesses, Trop Ltd, who intended to build a new swimming pool complex on the site.

[18] The "sinister twist on Disneyland" opened during the weekend of 21 August 2015 and ran until 27 September 2015, attracting 150,000 visitors from all over the world and generating an estimated £20m in extra revenue for the town.

[20] A consultation process was launched on 9 March 2016 with the engagement of local and regional artists, producers and residents, headed up by Wayne Hemingway.

Since 2016, the Tropicana has become available to hire out as an event venue – it hosts a diverse programme of entertainment including live music, theatre, comedy, funfairs and circus by the sea.

[22][23] The installation consisted of a decommissioned North Sea offshore drilling platform featuring a garden, a waterfall, kinetic scales, artworks collecting renewable energy, a cloud-making machine and a curly slide.