Flamingo Land first submitted plans to develop the location in 2018, however withdrew them the next yr after a wave of adverse response.
It later submitted up to date plans in 2020, insisting the proposal – titled Lomond Banks -would be a “major step away” from its different resorts, which embrace a preferred theme park and zoo in Yorkshire.
However, the Loch Lomond park authority board dominated that the up to date scheme nonetheless conflicted with each regional and nationwide environmental insurance policies, and unanimously rejected again the plan.
There was explicit concern over the elevated danger of flooding of the River Leven.
Locals had been additionally involved in regards to the influence on the realm’s pure magnificence, with greater than 174,000 individuals signing a web-based petition in opposition to the challenge.
An attraction to the Scottish authorities’s planning reporter – who handles most appeals on behalf of the Scottish authorities’s planning and environmental division – was profitable final yr.
But weeks later the Scottish authorities’s Minister for Public Finance, Ivan McKee, decided to recall the plans due to the general influence on Loch Lomond – which means the ultimate determination can be all the way down to ministers.
That determination prompted Jim Paterson, Lomond Banks’ improvement director, to say opponents of the plan had run a marketing campaign with “baseless and offensive” claims in regards to the plan, claiming this was rooted in “hysteria and mistruth”.
