Outrage as Flamingo Land plans new £40m mega-project in one of UK's best beauty spots
Flamingo Land is hoping to open a new resort on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland.
There has been outrage as a UK theme park plans a controversial new £40m mega-project in one of the country’s top beauty spots.
Flamingo Land currently operates a theme park in Yorkshire and is fighting a planning war to build a tourist resort on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland.
It will include hotels, a monorail, a water park, a swimming pool, restaurants, two car parks and more than 100 forest lodges built around the lake.
A date has been set for a decision on the bid with a site visit, public hearing and Loch Lomond National Park board meeting taking place next month, on September 16.
Officers will assess the application and a report will be published in due course with a recommendation to board members that they either approve or refuse the plans.
A National Park Authority spokesperson said: “This application has not yet been decided. No position has yet been taken in support of or against this planning application.
“However, with high levels of public interest, we felt it would be useful to set out as early as possible the process for taking a decision. Officers now have all the information required to assess the application and that assessment will continue between now and September.
“All submitted documents, consultee responses and representations from the public are being considered as part of the assessment.
"Once the assessment phase has concluded, a report will be published that includes a recommendation to board members that they either approve or refuse the application. That report will be published on the National Park Authority website in early September, in advance of the board meeting.
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"Once the report has been published, those who have submitted formal comments on the application will be notified and given details on how they can request to speak at the public hearing.”
More than 80,000 people have signed an online petition against the development, with fears raised over the impact it would have on the lochside landscape. The Scottish Greens have labelled it “the most objected-to planning application in Scottish history”.
It’s the second time the plans have reached this stage after Flamingo Land withdrew their original bid in 2019 after the National Park Authority report said the resort should be refused.
Bosses say their resurrected proposals have “significant amendments”, including the pledge of a ‘The Lomond Promise’ – which they say legally binds its promises for the area into legal obligations for the proposed development.
