Friday 14 November 2014

Camelot theme park - the future!

I say the future, but I refer to something which literally hang's in the balance like the remains of the "Knightmare" roller coaster left on the site. Infact, Knightmare is quite a good way to sum up what the site is to it's current owners, Story Homes.

Story homes have owned the site for quite some time, and even operated the site as Camelot theme park, but it's view has always been to close the theme park and build homes. They used the 2012 season as an excuse to close the site as it was quiet, but what do you expect when the advertising budget expended to a new banner at the front of the site, advertising the new look website.... which hadn't changed much at all to be fair.

The main part of the Knightmare came in 2014, August, when the local council refused plans to turn the site into a large housing development. Their reasons for doing so is that the site should remain as basically, a place for tourists to go. Now, this news oddly doesn't feature at all on the home page or the news page of the Story Homes website... Click here to see it...

It also follows a large campaign by local people to stop the site being turned into homes.

So what is the future for the site?

As it currently stands, the only viable future is for a company to buy the site and re-generate and possibly open up as Camelot Theme Park. If invested in enough, the park CAN work and become profitable again, the fault with the previous version of Camelot was that it didn't receive the much needed investment, so people stopped going. The idea of the site being housing has always been a silly idea and still is.

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