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Tensions are on the rise in the run-up to making a decision on the application. The developers are accusing campaigners of ‘misinformation’ and of misrepresenting the scheme as a ‘theme park’.
But those who object also talk about the size of the resort, the number of car parking spaces, traffic issues, the risk of flooding and the impact on the local community and the environment. Some are also developing alternative proposals for the site through a newly created community development trust.
The Herald has been investigating the proposed development and has looked in detail at both sides and what the future could see if the development is approved.
A decision will be made on Monday September 16. Subscribe to Yr Herald here to read full coverage of the decision.
Read The Herald’s extensive coverage of Lomond Banks here:
Park Report recommends rejection of Flamingo Land Lomond Banks
Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park authority has published a report recommending rejection of Flamingo Land’s Lomond Banks planning application.
Flamingo Land Lomond Banks: call to halt planning process
A community council has called for an “immediate halt” to the planning application process for Flamingo Land’s controversial Lomond Banks development.
The Scottish Government should ‘call in’ the Flamingo Land decision
Scottish Labor Deputy Leader Jackie Baillie has revealed she will oppose the Lomond Banks development by Flamingo Land.
Lomond Banks key dates announced, with calls for ‘respect’
With less than a month to go until a decision is made on the controversial Lomond Banks development, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority has published a plan of key dates and called for “those who have conflicting views on the application respect the planning. process”.
Lomond Land Banks Flamingo. He explained the argument
There are no flamingos planned for Balloch – and no rollercoasters either, as developers have long made clear – but plans for the gateway to iconic Loch Lomond have been controversial for a while, and continues so now, in the period before the decision on the latest application.
Campaigners await a decision on September 16 (Photo: Colin Mearns/Herald)
What the Lomond Banks debate says about our National Parks
The heated debate over Flamingo Land’s Lomond Banks planning application raises wider questions about what Scotland’s National Parks are for, campaigners say.
Why did the Lomond Flamingo Land Banks ever provoke objections?
Loch Lomond is many different things to many different people. It’s Runrig. It is an old paddle steamer. It’s a picnic on the shore. But is it also a commercial resort with lodges, a swimming pool and a craft brewery developed by the operator behind the Yorkshire theme park Flamingo Land?
A community development trust is the answer to the Flamingo Land struggle
Looking out over the shores of Loch Lomond towards the slopes of Ben Lomond it is hard to imagine that there is a battle to save the beauty and tranquility of this world famous location. A campaign fought by local people and people from all over the world has been gathering support for over 8 years.
Kevin McKenna: Inside Loch Lomond’s battle to keep Flamingo Land at bay
Next month, the LLTNP board will make a final decision on whether or not this massive development will go ahead. Local campaigners, backed by a petition signed by more than 150,000 people, believe that if the park authority gives it the green light a vital part of Loch Lomond’s landscape will be removed forever.
‘I am convinced that Lomond Banks can be good for our area’
Hugh MacDiarmid said in “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” that “More nonsense has been spoken in his (Robert Burns) name than in the freedom of shame and Christ”. To that list I would add Lomond Banks.
‘People continue to misrepresent it by calling it Flamingo Land’
The plans for Lomond Banks have been “misrepresented”, says the community engagement lead for the project. The controversial planning application for a holiday resort in Balloch, at the southernmost tip of Loch Lomond, is not a theme park and never has been.
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