Representation by Gail Heyes
- Date submitted
- 14 March 2021
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Points 1 Disney Paris is 4800 acres which is 7.5 square miles, the S Peninsula is itself is only 2 square miles 2 Opening times, if you have 10,000 customers coming at the same time at 8 am you would have to run buses and trains every minute to get everybody in. When I started to work at Bluewater shopping centre 12 years ago , I know what this looks like.I sat in a traffic jam for half an hour to get home ( it’s only a mile away!) 3 Noise , I was born in a small seaside town with a tiny fairground, as soon as you get 3 miles away you can hear the noise, look at the theme park marketing photos, all those people and food and shops all outside , it will be like living next to Oxford street London before the pandemic. 4 If you are coming from Europe to the theme park you would rent a car. The theme park would be expensive at least £40 for the day , middle class , lots of disposable income ,that type of person wouldn’t use the bus, When I have been on holiday it is always car rental. 5 Paris Disney has miles of roads just for the customers , Swanscombe and Greenfield roads are already packed , also being next to ebb fleet garden city another 10 thousand houses to be built? 6 If you go to Alton Towers do you go out of the park into the towns? No to get value for money , you would stay there all day ,it’s the theme parks job to keep you there all day kids tired then to bed.If you went to Paris Disney would you go out of the park for lunch? No , all the surrounding businesses would suffer. 7 Retail Bluewater and Lakeside shopping centres jobs would all be lost due to the large amount of Retail in the Swanscombe theme park , before the pandemic I found out the numbers, 20 thousand jobs would go 8 High tide 3 times a year , you can search for a photo of a small playground near Ingress Park , visit me I will take there , the tide from the Thames rises 25 feet , nobody has addressed this 9 If the theme park plot of land was 5 times bigger and nothing 10 miles in each direction it would be fine , but this is not the case , I have lived in Ingress park since 2004 and started work at the Bluewater shopping centre since 2009. So I know everything about the area and it’s surroundings. I have heard this will be open all night 24 hours a day , to get back their money they have spent quickly . Would you live next door to this , it would be like living next door to a nightclub, people wandering around the area at midnight waiting for a bus or train or driving somewhere. Nobody has mentioned security or police presence, if they are expecting 50 thousand customers, working at Bluewater there is always that 1% who want to break in and damage the area, Bluewater has had its share of this , nothing mentioned. Nobody has mentioned litter , having seen myself what 9000 ( pandemic numbers , Bluewater usually lets in 27000) people leave behind at Bluewater, what a colossal mess , it’s bigger than a five bedroom house in size each DAY. What would 50 000 people’s litter look like , don’t forget staff numbers of approx 10 000 as well . Wembley stadium can do this , plenty of ways ,in plenty of roads but people are only there for three hours max. This has 500 words max but could do another 2000 words of other numbered points to say why this is the wrong plot of land for this theme park . Just go to Greenhithe church on London Road it can’t be widened ,on the church side of the road there is no pavement to walk!!! London Road is the only way to the theme park!!! Further up the London Road to Ingress Park and beyond, there are houses on each side and the road is too narrow 10 Please arrange a visit and will give you a tour of Ingress Park and the surrounding theme park area