A decision on Flamingo Land at Loch Lomond will be made at a public meeting on Monday, September 16. A site visit, hearing and board meeting will take place at the site to determine the planning application for a major development at Lomond Banks. The plans that have been submitted are for a hotel, self-catering holiday lodges and a water park as well as restaurants, a craft brewery and leisure centre and the debate has been ongoing since they were submitted in 2020.
An original proposal was withdrawn in September 2019 before they returned the following year and Flamingo Land have insisted regularly that there will be no theme park and it is different to their other sites. Read More: Almost 100,000 against Flamingo Land resort at Loch Lomond Loch Lomond Flamingo Land resort 'most objected to in Scots history' The group have operated since the 1950s with a theme park and zoo in Yorkshire and there is plenty of opposition to their Loch Lomond hopes, with it even being described as ‘the most unpopular planning application in Scottish history’ by Greens MSP Ross Greer. Concerns had been raised over the effects it would have on one of Scotland’s most scenic areas while additional traffic in the area has also been a worry.
SEPA have also shared their worries about the development and requested that the lodges were removed from part of the site that has been designated as a flood plain after they questioned whether their proposals to mitigate the risk of floods were appropriat.
