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26th Jun 2022

LEGOLAND Windsor Resort submit application for Adventure Golf attraction

By |2024-02-10T17:45:36+00:0026th June 2022|LEGOLAND Windsor Resort|

LEGOLAND Windsor Resort have this week submitted a planning application to add an indoor Adventure Golf attraction, comprising of four themed courses. The attraction, codenamed 'Project Birdie', is planned to be located to the west of the theme park, on the site of the existing priority car park [...]

15th Jun 2022

Update on progress of Thorpe Park Resort’s Project Exodus planning application

By |2024-02-10T17:44:01+00:0015th June 2022|Thorpe Park|

Since its submission at the start of March, the planning application for Project Exodus at Thorpe Park Resort has been progressing through the usual post-submission phase which includes statutory and non-statutory consultations, in order to help inform Runnymede Borough Council's (RBC) decision on whether or not to approve the proposals. [...]

5th Apr 2022

ICON gets twisted for 2022 at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

By |2022-04-05T19:30:04+01:005th April 2022|Pleasure Beach Resort|

ICON, Blackpool Pleasure Beach's double-launch Mack Mega Coaster, has received a twisted upgrade which is now available for guests to preview. Opening as the UK's first double-launch rollercoaster in 2018, ICON has been escorting riders through inversions, high-speed accelerations and interactions with other rides for four seasons. However, [...]

30th Mar 2022

DCO application withdrawn by The London Resort

By |2026-02-12T00:20:26+00:0030th March 2022|The London Resort|

London Resort Company Holdings have this week withdrawn the DCO application for The London Resort which was submitted on 31st December 2020. LRCH notified the Planning Inspectorate that they would be withdrawing the application in a letter dated 28th March 2022. This was published on the Planning Inspectorate's [...]

15th Mar 2022

Full application submitted for Project Exodus at Thorpe Park Resort

By |2024-02-10T17:40:40+00:0015th March 2022|Thorpe Park|

Thorpe Park Resort have submitted the full application for Project Exodus, which will see the installation of a rollercoaster along with associated buildings and structures in the Old Town area of the theme park. The application formalises the Resort's aspirations, as revealed during the public consultation in December, [...]

16th Feb 2022

Plans submitted by Chessington to add two children’s rides to Pirates’ Cove

By |2022-02-16T20:57:56+00:0016th February 2022|Chessington World of Adventures Resort|

A planning application has been submitted by Chessington World of Adventures Resort to install two additional children's flat rides in the Pirates' Cove area of the theme park, alongside associated theming and landscaping. Codenamed Project Anchor, the development will see two children's rides installed [...]

28th Jan 2022

Chessington submit plans to reconfigure Explorer Entrance following Amazon Land approval

By |2022-01-28T21:44:56+00:0028th January 2022|Chessington World of Adventures Resort|

Chessington World of Adventures Resort have submitted a planning application to reconfigure the Explorer Entrance, in order to accommodate the track layout of the rollercoaster featured in the planned Amazon Land, which has this week been granted planning permission. The planned redevelopment will see the demolition of almost all existing [...]

16th Dec 2021

Appeals against Legoland Windsor Resort’s long term plan fully dismissed

By |2022-06-25T21:07:37+01:0016th December 2021|LEGOLAND Windsor Resort|

Merlin Entertainments yesterday confirmed that all avenues to block the implementation of Legoland Windsor Resort's Long Term Plan, submitted back in 2017, have now been exhausted. A long period of deliberation followed the Long Term Plan's submission in June 2017, with planning permission eventually issued by the Royal [...]

9th Dec 2021

Thorpe Park Resort to build UK’s tallest roller coaster

By |2021-12-11T10:29:57+00:009th December 2021|Thorpe Park|

On Thursday 9th December 2021, Thorpe Park Resort held an in-person public consultation on a proposed new roller coaster that will be located in the Old Town area of the theme park. The in-person consultation was the first stage of the planning process timeline, taking into account feedback from local [...]

20th Oct 2021

Scares return for 2021 at Screamfest Resurrected

By |2023-08-02T01:10:16+01:0020th October 2021|Scare Attractions|

Last weekend signalled the return of Screamfest, a popular, must-experience Halloween event in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Well and truly “Resurrected” after a year’s absence due to COVID-19, the event features a line-up that includes some fresh twists on Screamfest classics, returning scares, and two new attractions. Attraction Source was invited [...]

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