POLITICIANS from across the party divide have united in voicing their disappointment at news that a new agreement has been reached for a £30 million tourism development in Balloch. Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Government’s economic development agency, announced last week that it had reached a deal which will see Flamingo Land submit new plans in 2021 for a development on the West Riverside and Woodbank House site. The company’s previous planning application for a development it called Lomond Banks was withdrawn in September 2019 – just days before it was due to be considered by the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority’s planning committee.
Renewed plans for Flamingo Land development at Loch Lomond
Scottish Enterprise say the tourist facility will bring millions of pounds and hundreds of jobs to the area while opponents say the move is an outrage.
The West Riverside development site currently lies empty. (Image: DAILY RECORD)
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Flamingo Land said their refreshed plans would allow public access throughout the site FLAMINGO Land will submit new planning proposals for the Loch Lomond-side site which they had hoped to turn into a tourist village. The original £30 million plans to build two hotels, a craft brewery, restaurants, and a leisure centre on 44 acres next to the loch became the most unpopular proposals in Scottish history after around 55,000 people objected. Although Flamingo Land Limited submitted the proposals, the village would not have been branded as such and it would not have been a theme park. Now the company, which runs a zoo, resort and theme park in Yorkshire, will try to resurrect the rejected development scheme.
Flamingo Land is set to submit fresh plans for the Lomond Banks site after reaching an agreement with Scottish Enterprise THE tourism firm behind plans for a £30 million development on the banks of Loch Lomond, branded the most unpopular planning application in Scotland s history, is set to submit fresh proposals for the Balloch site. The Scottish Government s economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise, announced today (Tuesday) that it has reached an agreement with Flamingo Land for the Lomond Banks resort. The decision comes amid growing pressure from local politicians for an exclusivity agreement between the two parties to be cancelled - and follows Flamingo Land s withdrawal of its initial plans last September in the face of more than 50,000 public objections.
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Controversial plans for a tourist resort on the banks of Loch Lomond are to be resurrected.
But now the tourism firm has new plans for the brownfield site adjoining the River Leven at Balloch.
Flamingo Land said its proposal to build visitor accommodation would create up to 200 jobs.
Campaigners against the development fear it will spoil the scenery and limit access to the shoreline for locals.
The site is owned by Scottish Enterprise and it was under pressure to end its ties with Flamingo Land, which runs a theme park, zoo and resort in North Yorkshire.