EXCLUSIVE: John Swinney is being urged to end an exclusivity agreement between government quango Scottish Enterprise and the Yorkshire theme park operator. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Flamingo Land's exclusive rights to land on the banks of Loch Lomond should end if its second bid for a controversial mega-resort fails, John Swinney has been urged. The Yorkshire theme park operator signed an exclusivity agreement with government quango Scottish Enterprise in 2016 meaning only they can buy the public land in Balloch.
And despite dropping its original planning application to build a £40million resort at the site in 2019 amid public anger , Flamingo Land had its rights to the land renewed in 2020. Now, campaigning Green MSP Ross Greer has written to the First Minister calling on him to scrap the arrangement should the firm's latest bid be rejected next month. It comes ahead of a showdown public meeting to be held by the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority on September 16 which will finally decide the resort’s fate.
The proposed development, called Lomond Banks, would see 104 woodland lodges, two hotels, a waterpark, monorail, 372 car parking spaces, shops and more built on the Bonnie Banks. Critics claim the 46-acre site would be a blight on the iconic landscape and ov.