The London Resort will be a two-park mega-theme park in Swanscombe, if the £5bn project can get past environmental hurdles and be built. The London Resort developers have challenged the protected status of the Swanscombe Peninsula in the latest twist in the battle to build a £5bn mega-theme park in north Kent. Dubbed the UK s answer to Disneyland, the London Resort is one of Europe s most ambitious theme park projects ever and planned to be built on the Swanscombe Marshes, the twin-park could be three times the size of any other resort in the country. But the site, thought of as a wildlife haven, was recently declared to be a Site of Special Interest by Natural England, a motion The London Resort have now opted to fight.
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Petition to protect Swanscombe Marshes from London Resort theme park development nears 20,000 signatures as campaign to save land steps up
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Updated: 16:07, 08 February 2021
A petition calling for the protection of marshland where the UK s largest theme is set to be built has been signed by more than 20,000 people.
The Save Swanscombe Marshes campaign fighting to designate the area as a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) stepped up today as dozens of ecology experts and campaigners pressed Natural England to grant an application for tougher conservation rules.
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The London Resort is set to be built on the Swanscombe Peninsula. Picture: EDF Energy
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