Britain’s first Hollywood theme park with 500-room hotel, entertainment zone & own train station takes huge step forward

BRITAIN'S archetypal Hollywood taxable parkland with a 500-room hotel, amusement portion and its ain bid station, takes a immense measurement forward.

Last year, Universal Studios bought a 480-acre portion of onshore successful a UK municipality and past announced plans to physique a large taxable park.

If each goes to plan, Bedford volition big Britian's archetypal Hollywood taxable park.

According to the 16-page readying document, the caller tract could clasp a hotel, a retail, dining, an amusement zone, restoration zone, landscaped country and water zone.

It besides claimed that rides, attractions and buildings astatine the taxable parkland would beryllium capped astatine a maximum height.

However, successful September, negotiations betwixt Universal and the government.

This was owed to whether Bedford was a bully tract for the company's archetypal European taxable park.

Nevertheless, determination appears to beryllium "no reddish flags" to supply Bedford Borough Council with crushed to halt the accomplishment of the taxable park.

Regardless, portion the institution negotiates with the authorities they volition stay successful a "period of quiet".

Sam Fox, a precedence projects advisor for Bedford Borough Council said: “We’ve present entered a play of quiescent from Universal in the nationalist domain, truthful we’re not expecting them to beryllium saying anything.

“We’re not expecting the authorities to beryllium saying thing publicly.

"We simply await the result of the authorities and Universal negotiations connected that financial package

“There was speech due to the fact that there’s an international concern acme taking spot connected October 14, I deliberation radical were putting 2 and 2 unneurotic and making a number.

“There was anticipation that the concern determination would beryllium announced astatine that conference.

“My gut feeling is that it’s very, very, aboriginal days successful their negotiations and there’s nary existent likelihood of that taking spot connected October 14."

He added: “So if you had heard that, don’t beryllium disappointed if thing is announced astatine that summit."

The committee heard that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is the task sponsor.

If the readying exertion goes ahead, it'll beryllium dealt with by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

Mr Fox continued: “That readying exertion volition beryllium successful the signifier of what’s known arsenic an SDO, a peculiar improvement order.

“When the readying effect portion successful MHCLG person dealt with the application, they volition constitute up a study that volition spell to caput of authorities successful MHCLG.

“And the caput of authorities volition motion disconnected that readying determination earlier it’s laid successful Parliament arsenic a statutory instrument.

“We person a 2 signifier attack to the scheme, the archetypal is the concern decision.

“For instance, who pays for infrastructure similar roadworthy improvements, obstruction improvements, that needs to beryllium agreed betwixt HM government.

“The 2nd signifier is erstwhile that dialog has taken spot astir the concern determination and they’ve reached an statement successful rule the readying determination volition beryllium taken forward.

“We astatine the assembly volition beryllium a statutory consultee, and we’ve present confirmed that our ceremonial effect to the [30 day] consultation volition beryllium signed disconnected by the executive.

He added: “It won’t really travel to the Planning Committee, but it’ll beryllium an enforcement decision.

“I’m pleased to accidental there’s nary large reddish flags for america that we’ve seen from a method constituent of presumption that would marque america think, really the assembly can’t enactment this, oregon we don’t urge that the assembly supports this.”