Loch Lomond's £40 million Flamingo Land "tourist resort" plans are facing renewed opposition over concerns about their scale and impact.
The Yorkshire-based firm has re-submitted a planning application to build the destination, which will include more than 200 rooms and a monorail, after making "fundamental changes" to its original plans.
Glasgow Live reports that the organisation was forced to withdraw their original application more than two years ago following a similar campaign led by the Green party.
That proposal saw 50,000 objections lodged with the Loch Lomond National Trossachs Park, whose officers recommended the application not be granted.
The new plans include restaurants, cafes and retail areas as well as a 60-bed hotel, 127 self-catering lodges, a leisure pool and water park facility and a monorail.
On their website the Greens are asking residents to sign a petition to stop the development of apartments, lodges and a budget hotel once again.
It states: “Their new application has only just been submitted and there is a huge amount of information for local residents and our campaign team to digest.
"What's already clear is that their plans are once again far too big, inappropriate for the location and will involve handing over a special piece of publicly owned land for the sake of private profit.”
The party also say they will provide support for anyone wishing to comment on the application ahead of the National Park's planning committee making its decision.
Changes to the earlier rejected proposals include a revised vision of the site adjacent to the pierhead, separate to the public slipway managed by the National Park, and the complete removal of any development in the ancient woodland of Drumkinnon Wood.
The proposed development comprises a tourism, leisure, and recreation-led mixed-use development, including:
- Refurbished tourist information building
- Up to 60-bedroom apart-hotel
- Up to 32-bedspace budget hotel
- Up to 127 self-catering lodges of various sizes
- Reconstruction and refurbishment of Woodbank House to provide up to 15 self-catering apartments
- Reconstruction and refurbishment of the attendant structures at Woodbank to provide up to six self-catering units
- Leisure pool/water park/spa facility
- Water sports hub
- Water sports equipment storage building
- Restaurants/café/retail areas
- Craft brewery including pub
- Visitor reception area and hub building
- External activity areas including event/performance areas, children’s play areas, picnic and barbecue areas
- Monorail
- Staff service and welfare accommodation
- Associated parking, landscaping, and infrastructure development works; and
access from the surrounding road network including Ben Lomond Way and Pier Road.
The application will be determined byNational Park Authority in due course. To view the Green’s campaign visit https://greens.scot/SaveLochLomond
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