Potential New Universal UK Park

[xtpower]

Enabling works cannot take place before planning permission is granted for the main development. Planning permission hasn't even been applied for.

The fences will be for site security and to prevent the ever increasing number of vloggers turning up to use the site as a backdrop, whilst wearing hard hats and/or sitting on camping chairs.

There's a public footpath that goes right through the Park Zone, that is how the vloggers get onto the parcel to use as a backdrop or sit around in camp chairs. So, if this fencing is purely to 'stop vloggers' it seems redundant.

*edit* They've also cut down the edges of the tree-line and projectuniversal (the drone yt guy) says a guy went along and removed flytipping and trash that was there. So this fencing feels like a part of a planned procedure, not something done cos of the annoying 'vloggers'. Maybe it's not 'enabling works' but it does signify that they are gearing up to do something.

 

[Plastic Person]

Just back from a sneaky site visit. I don’t want to get anyone too excited, but the fence is definitely coming along.

 

[James]

As this project ramps up, the general public will become increasingly interested, and many will likely try to visit the site. I agree with Goose that this fencing appears to be more of a security measure to prevent people from entering the land. It seems that the public footpath is still open, so it will be interesting to see if this gets closed off or rerouted to coincide with this new fencing (I'm unsure on the legalities/how that works though).

It's a good sign and certainly shows that things are moving forward rather than backwards, but it feels like we're still in the early stages.

 

[Dave]

How will that planning app be submitted? It's not going through the local planning process so where will the plans be submitted or be viewable.

It will be through the local planning process, it would only go to central government on appeal.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

With all the fencing, they probably saw all of the people breaking into Oakwood and thought that’s what happens when you own the land for a non-operational theme park…

 

[Rob]

They're clearly just securing the land that they own, nothing unusual about that, especially as there becomes more interest in the project! Yes I think we'll hear fairly soon that they plan to go ahead with the project and a planning application, but fencing does not equate to any sort of construction. It wouldn't go down well if they just built a theme park without planning permission...!