New blow for supermarket-led consortium's plan to redevelop site of former Pleasure Island theme park

 

THERE has been a fresh setback to the longstanding plan to revamp the former Pleasure Island theme park site in Cleethorpes.

Developers tweaked the design in the hope of winning over the Environment Agency which had objected to the original plan for shops, hotels and holiday cabins for fear a flood would put lives at risk.

But it emerged over the weekend that the EA has not been satisfied with the proposed rejig.

Says the agency's planning specialist Nicola Farr: "Based on the information currently presented, we are not able to advise that the development and occupants would be safe.

"We therefore maintain our objection to the application."

Ms Farr makes the further point that the consortium behind the proposal has failed to provide the information that it has been seeking for many months. 

The Lidl-led consortium behind the scheme wants to clear away almost all the trees and shrubs from the site.

This would allow for construction of  a discount supermarket, 272 holiday cabins and, in the future, possibly two hotels, two further shops, restaurants and cafes and a leisure unit.

However, there is little prospect of North East Lincolnshire Council granting planning consent for a project where lives might be at risk.

That means it is  back to the drawing - yet again - for the consortium which also includes a Liverpool-based property tycoon and a Cleethorpes-based builder.