Flamingo Land behind plans for major coastal visitor attraction

FLAMINGO Land has lodged a bid to create a botanic garden and roller coaster on the site of the former Futurist theatre.

Scarborough Borough Council has announced that the theme park company has its eyes set on developing the site of the resort's famous theatre, which closed in January after years of uncertainty.

Flamingo Land, between Malton and Pickering, is Yorkshire's largest visitor attraction and is proposing to create Flamingo Land Coast.

Details of its bid were released in a report to Scarborough Borough Councils cabinet and reveals it intends to create a development based around three environments with subterranean, coastline and sky theme.

It would include a glass-roofed botanical garden, a roller coaster, a 55m lighthouse structure and Space Shot Tower which propels customers 55 metres into the sky.

The site, overlooking Scarboroughs south bay, would also include an elevated sea view bar, restaurant and function space, walk-through aviary and new town square.

The company behind the plans were previously kept secret and was referred to as bidder B. But following public concerns about the credibility of any bidder being able to deliver such an ambitious seafront visitor attraction, Flamingo Land was revealed as the applicant.

The company is partnering with the Yorkshire-based property development company GMI Estates for the project.

Derek Bastiman, Scarborough Borough Council cabinet member for strategic planning and regeneration said plans were still very much in their infancy

Were delighted that weve been able to announce Flamingo Land and GMI as the identity behind bidder B, he said.

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Flamingo Land behind plans for major coastal visitor attraction