Nine years on and a spade is still yet to be placed in the ground.
The project has lost a string of directors, racked up tens of millions of pounds of losses and been put in jeopardy by the presence of a rare spider.
Now developers have asked the Planning Inspectorate to delay a review of the plans.
The London Resort theme park is due to be built on the Swanscombe peninsula in Kent
A look at its short history shows it has faced setback after setback.
Things had looked promising when the Kuwaiti owners of nearby non-league football team Ebbsfleet United threw their financial weight behind the plans, with an initial seven-figure investment in October 2013. Chairman Dr Abdulla Al-Humaidi had saved the football club from the brink of extinction barely four months earlier and, with ambitions to get the side into the Football League and own the UK’s biggest theme park next door, he was signalling his intentions to be a major player in the sport and leisure make-up of the UK.
Major City investors join queue to fund UK s Disneyland
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Major City firms have pledged to bankroll a £2.6billion theme park in Kent which is being dubbed the UK s answer to Disneyland .
Funding documents for the London Resort near Dartford show it has lined up investors to finance the construction of the giant attraction in two phases through a mix of investment and debt.
More than £75million has already been invested by Middle Eastern businessmen led by Kuwaiti tycoon Dr Abdulla Al-Humaidi, owner of Ebbsfleet United Football Club.
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The London Resort is run by chief executive PY Gerbeau, the former boss of the Millennium Dome, and chaired by Steve Norris, a former Tory MP and Transport Minister.
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Kuwaiti Businessman Denies £8M Owed In Family Dispute
Law360, London (April 7, 2021, 5:34 PM BST) A Kuwaiti businessman has denied that he provided an £8 million ($11 million) guarantee for his family s debt that he said has already been discharged through handing over commercial properties, after a lawyer sued for the money in London.
Dr. Abdulla Al-Humaidi said in a filing at the High Court in London that he did not make a personal guarantee in February 2019 that Kuwaiti European Holding Group would pay lawyer Abdulaziz Alsanad s family three million Kuwaiti dinar ($10 million) by September of that year.
Al-Humaidi is the chief executive of Kuwaiti European, a company which holds an investment in his.
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