A CURSORY glance at social media networking sites reveals the modern snake-oil of civic managerialism: leadership courses. This new elixir of Scotland’s chattering classes reveals a make-believe land of paradigm-shifters where you too can call yourself a leader for a grand a week and get to sit cross-legged on bean-bags while telling the stranger on your right something surprising about yourself. It may not chime with cynics like me, but it can be lucrative and there is clearly no shortage of eager participants. Which is presumably why Sir Tom Hunter, one of Scotland’s most successful businessmen, wants to build a leadership centre on the shores of Loch Lomond at the site of Ross Priory in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.
POLITICIANS from across the party divide have united in voicing their disappointment at news that a new agreement has been reached for a £30 million tourism development in Balloch. Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Government’s economic development agency, announced last week that it had reached a deal which will see Flamingo Land submit new plans in 2021 for a development on the West Riverside and Woodbank House site. The company’s previous planning application for a development it called Lomond Banks was withdrawn in September 2019 – just days before it was due to be considered by the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority’s planning committee.
Flamingo Land said their refreshed plans would allow public access throughout the site FLAMINGO Land will submit new planning proposals for the Loch Lomond-side site which they had hoped to turn into a tourist village. The original £30 million plans to build two hotels, a craft brewery, restaurants, and a leisure centre on 44 acres next to the loch became the most unpopular proposals in Scottish history after around 55,000 people objected. Although Flamingo Land Limited submitted the proposals, the village would not have been branded as such and it would not have been a theme park. Now the company, which runs a zoo, resort and theme park in Yorkshire, will try to resurrect the rejected development scheme.
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Controversial plans for a tourist resort on the banks of Loch Lomond are to be resurrected.
But now the tourism firm has new plans for the brownfield site adjoining the River Leven at Balloch.
Flamingo Land said its proposal to build visitor accommodation would create up to 200 jobs.
Campaigners against the development fear it will spoil the scenery and limit access to the shoreline for locals.
The site is owned by Scottish Enterprise and it was under pressure to end its ties with Flamingo Land, which runs a theme park, zoo and resort in North Yorkshire.
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