Harvey. said:As much as I loathe spiders, I agree with Meat Pie; I'm not saying the park shouldn't be built, but perhaps the spiders could be rehomed in an environment as similar as possible to their current one? Extinction seems a little harsh, even for our eight-legged nemeses.
Kent Online said:Mr Hammond moved to address concerns about a threat to Paramount Park, saying the government would work with those behind the project.
He told KentOnline: "The government doesn't have a preferred route and I hope people will get involved with this consultation.
"Each of these routes has benefits and disbenefits - what we're saying is that by doing it this way we'll be able to do it more quickly.
"We will examine the evidence and in the autumn we will hopefully announce what route it is and then there will be some detailed modelling.
"Traffic over the next 20 years is likely to increase by 25% and that means we need another crossing.
"I don't have any concerns about Paramount Park. At the moment it's a line on the map and if that the route we choose we'll be working with the park to ensure it's fully compatible."
BigAl said:...those behind it no longer want to pursue it, they're going to need to come up with another excuse...
Tim said:Just to put a bit of positive back into this topic it is worth noting that while we have seen many projects like this over the years and most of them never leave the drawing board there is one that did...
Legoland
Now I'm not saying that this project is likely to happen but there is hope that one day a park like this will be built.
Well, yes and no.HaydenCR said:Tim said:Just to put a bit of positive back into this topic it is worth noting that while we have seen many projects like this over the years and most of them never leave the drawing board there is one that did...
Legoland
Now I'm not saying that this project is likely to happen but there is hope that one day a park like this will be built.
Legoland is very different to this in that Legoland was built on an existing safari park. It was an already established tourist attraction and the infrastructure was already in place.
I think it's also worth noting they opened Legoland California just 3 years later which to my knowledge was built from the ground up so there's no doubt they could have done the same in the UK.Islander said:Well, yes and no.HaydenCR said:Tim said:Just to put a bit of positive back into this topic it is worth noting that while we have seen many projects like this over the years and most of them never leave the drawing board there is one that did...
Legoland
Now I'm not saying that this project is likely to happen but there is hope that one day a park like this will be built.
Legoland is very different to this in that Legoland was built on an existing safari park. It was an already established tourist attraction and the infrastructure was already in place.
Lego (ie the Lego Group) did indeed hit gold with the old Windsor Safari Park site, but they considered a number of other sites across the UK when looking to build a theme park here, some of which would have required developing from scratch in the same way as this Paramount proposal.
Also worth noting that although the site did indeed have some infrastructures in place, the conversion from safari park to Legoland was no small feat, and a great, great deal of almost Disney-like thought, planning and design went in to creating a park and infrastructure that just 'works' as a theme park. (Before anyone jumps on me here, I mean precisely what I've written - the design of the park and associated infrastructures is/was excellent; I'm not talking about ride hardware here).
As for Windsor Safari Park already being an "established tourist attraction", although that may have helped slightly, with the clear overlap in guest profiles, I doubt it would've made much difference all in all - very few people would have visited it because it "used to be WSP", but rather because it's Legoland, and equally I'd imagine that, say, Legoland Dartford would, more or less, have been just as successful.
Read more here.The Kuwaiti owners of Ebbsfleet United have thrown their financial weight behind plans for a £2billion entertainment complex in Kent.
Kuwaiti European Holdings (KEH) has made a multi-million pound investment in the Paramount Park scheme proposed for the Swanscombe Peninsula.
Sources close to the UK developer London Resort Company Holdings (LRCH), which is spearheading the project, would not disclose the amount but acknowledged it is "a seven-figure sum". The company declined to comment.