More than 22,000 objections have been filed over proposals to build a leisure park on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland.
Original proposals from the Flamingo Land theme park developer were withdrawn two years ago after more than 50,000 objections.
A fresh application for the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park includes hotels, lodges, restaurants, cafés, shops, a craft brewery, a water park and “external activity areas” such as children’s play zones and a monorail.
Ross Greer, a Green MSP who last year said his party would send the developers packing, thanked those who have backed the campaign. Some 10,000 objections were recorded within the first 24 hours of the campaign, which got under way on Friday.
“Local residents have repeatedly proposed a range of potential alternative uses for the site which could boost the social and economic wellbeing of the area, maintain easy public access and protect the ancient woodland at Drumkinnon,” he said. “But site owner Scottish Enterprise has so far been unwilling to deal with anyone other than the Yorkshire theme park operator.”
