New ‘headline ride’ coming to Legoland

Windsor: Attraction granted permission to build new indoor ride

Plans to construct an indoor ride in Adventure Land at Legoland has been approved to open in the 2021 season. cater to visitors throughout the year.

The relocation of the plans to a ‘more sensitive part’ of the park forced Legoland to submit a new application as the construction was now considered an inappropriate development in the greenbelt.

However councillors agreed that the economic benefits from the application, which is set to create about 20 fulltime jobs, would outweigh any harm to the greenbelt.

Addressing the panel, Cllr Wisdom Da Costa (WWRA, Clewer & Dedworth West) said: “I’m a big fan of Legoland, my five-year-old grandson adores it but looking at what’s been presented two things cause me a problem. One is that this is being built on open grassland and secondly, if you do relocate a building the existing bio-diversity will suffer as the tree officers have said the current layout is poor in relation to veteran trees.”

He added: “But on the other hand there are lots of positives.”

Cllr John Bowden (Con, Eton and Castle) said: “Yes I can understand there is creep into the greenbelt, there is some remodelling of what they wanted but it is still a planning permission which should go ahead.”

Construction is expected to begin this summer with the new attraction ready for the 2021 season.

W Councillors were also due to discuss the use of land in Datchet

Common as a gypsy and traveller site but this application was withdrawn before the meeting.