Plans to regenerate an abandoned theme park in Cleethorpes, UK, into a housing and retail development have hit the buffers with another objection.
The former Pleasure Island site is the subject of an application by a consortium to build 272 holiday lodges, two hotels and retail that has been ongoing but facing constant hold-ups through objections.
Supermarket Lidl is involved and the plans include an amusement arcade. The park closed in 2016 and North East Lincolnshirew Council has had an application to redevelop the site up for approval for nearly three years.
The Environment Agency has now objected to the proposed £65m scheme, objecting to amendments in the plans that will include a new bridge over a waterway known as Buck Beck.
The agency had already put conditions into place to reduce the risk of flooding, which included the closure of the lodges during the winter for fear of tidal flooding.
Although this was subsequently accounted for in revised plans, the agency has now objected again, citing "insufficient information" over access provided by the proposed bridge. The public has been largely positive about the need to regenerate the site.
