That Damn Brexit.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/first-universal-theme-park-in-europe-to-generate-50bn-of-economic-benefits-for-uk-13158683

Why would anyone want to build such a thing in our "decaying little" backyard? Ok EW my tin hat is on.

[naomi24]

Great - and it's outside London so beyond the Mayor's interference.

 

https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/23936021.msg-sphere-stratford-blocked-london-mayor-sadiq-khan/

[douglas9401]

I suppose it depends on how quickly the needed, state-funded transport improvements are delivered and whether the brown envelopes are thick enough to see the 'special development order' pushed through.

There may yet be rethinks among those MPs standing down.

[Gromit]

Disney regretted choosing Paris for their European theme park, and Universal have learned from that.

[youngmafbog]

Dont worry, labour will soon can it.  I can hear Ed Milliband spitting out his museli as I type.

[youngmafbog]

//I suppose it depends on how quickly the needed, state-funded transport improvements are delivered //

What State funded transport improvements?

[New Judge]

The opponents of this scheme need not fret. It will be at least five years before planning consent is granted and if (a big "if") it is there will follow another five years of judicial reviews and enquiries before (if ever) the first sod is dug.

I wish Universal well. It's the sort of scheme which will generate them and the Exchequer a lot of cas, and will provide many local jobs. However, I would put their cash in the Nationwide for a while if I was them.

[youngmafbog]

They tend to work long term NJ, wont bother them and the land can only gain in value.

I would have thought being an ex brickworks the land has little other use.  Cant be used as a field, and potential toxins could render the site unviable for houses.  Be interested to see what the Eco zealots and labours green eyed lot come up with.

[dave50]

The miserable sour faced eco lunatics will soon put a stop to it.

[Old_Geezer]

Never understood why people went to France to see Mickey Souris, and Donald Canard.

[mushroom25]

// What State funded transport improvements? //

well quite. the site is already passed by the high quality A421 which meets the M1 at J13; in a few years the ongoing works at the Black Cat roundabout will satisfactorily connect it to the A1. the train is a non-starter, all political parties are fiercely opposed to east-west rail, leaving the hopelessly inadequate and chronically unreliable Marston Vale line to try and cope (which it won't).

[ToraToraTora]

"I suppose it depends on how quickly the needed, state-funded transport improvements are delivered a" - Bedford is on the mainline to London already.

[mushroom25]

// Bedford is on the mainline to London already. //

it is. but the proposed site is 4-5 miles from the station and due to the chronic traffic problems in the town, that's a 20mn taxi ride.

[New Judge]

"...but the proposed site is 4-5 miles from the station and due to the chronic traffic problems in the town, that's a 20mn taxi ride."

And nobody with two or three kids in tow is going to faff about like that. People who go to places like this go by car. That's what cars and roads are for. The attraction should be planned on teh assumption that virtually all of its customers will arrive by car. And that's where the second phase of the eobjections will begin. The first objection will be that it shouldn't be built at all and the second will be that if it is, people should get there by push bike.

I wonder why any multinational company who might invest in anything that needs planning consent bothers themselves with trying to do so in this country.