WHATEVER plans Hollywood has woven for a billion dollar theme park across the water in Kent has been put on hold due to the discovery of a rare spider colony.
The project which is backed by Paramount Pictures, once completed, will be the third-largest theme park in the world reports Kent News.
The scheme is due to create around 27,000 jobs and was set to be completed by 2019.
However, during an audit of the site in the Swanscombe Peninsula it was found to be the home to rare jumping spiders, found only in two places in the UK.
London Resort Company Holdings, one of the companies behind the theme park, will now have to re-home the spiders.
Hooray!
Perhaps a few Great Crested Newts or rare Bats can be discovered living there too.
Anything rather than having a better excuse for expanding more major river crossing routes from Thurrock into Kent.
Still worrying about precisely what JDP is backing though.
We should welcome the building of this park and the creation of 27,000 jobs, with a project of this scale the infrastructure will need to be upgraded to cope with the potential influx of extra traffic, this in itself will see more employment.
i think these same spiders were found along devonshire rd a few years ago,it was declare a site of special scientific interest to protect them but the petrol taker depot bulldozed it all to extend their parking.