Agents for Pleasure Island project say proposed holiday lodges would be 'tethered to ground'

                                                    

The Buck Beck - overtopping, if substantial, could pose flood hazard at the adjacent Pleasure Island site

THE two hotels proposed for the former Pleasure Island theme park would not have sleeping accommodation on the ground floor.

This pledge has come from the agents for the Lidl-backed consortium seeking to redevelop the site.

Lichfields hope this assurance might ease the Environment Agency's concerns over risk to life and limb in the event of a catastrophic flood, perhaps caused by a North sea surge or overtopping by the adjacent Buck Beck.

In addition, it says the proposed  holiday lodges - as many as 272 are envisaged - would be "securely tethered to the ground".

No response from the EA to these proposed flood mitigation measures has yet been received by North East Lincolnshire Council's planning department.

At this stage, it seems unlikely that a decision on the redevelopment project will be reached this side of Christmas.

In the meantime, supermarket giant Tesco has weighed into the planning fray.

Fearful of losing trade to the proposed Lidl discount supermarket, it has this week lodged a formal objection to the application.