Universal Great Britain

[Dinosaurus]

Which part do you know?

I sent a friend who lives locally down to Manor Road but they said as of 6:05pm there’s no one there, but they can confirm it’s a very lovely sunny evening currently 28° and feels like 29°. It’s a scorcher again!

Northern parcel.

 

[yepthatguy]

Northern parcel.

Thanks, that narrows it down by about 200 acres.

 

[Dinosaurus]

Apologies I can’t give you the exact inch-perfect co ordinates, I was driving at the time.

 

[yepthatguy]

Apologies I can’t give you the exact inch-perfect co ordinates, I was driving at the time.

I’m grateful you mentioned it, I just wondered where about roughly in the north parcel. It’s cool though, it just sounds exciting!

 

[BBPH]

First Universal theme park in Europe to generate '£50bn of economic benefits for UK'

Universal's proposed theme park in Bedford is to open 365 days a year and contain 500 hotel rooms and a dining area open to non-ticket holders.

news.sky.com

 

[Dinosaurus]

First Universal theme park in Europe to generate '£50bn of economic benefits for UK'

Universal's proposed theme park in Bedford is to open 365 days a year and contain 500 hotel rooms and a dining area open to non-ticket holders.

news.sky.com

"I can tell you it's going to be a world-class park with all experiences that people will love based upon the most popular films, video games"

Super Nintendo World confirmed?

 

[Altonsky]

20 million visitors per year?

 

[Dinosaurus]

20 million visitors per year?

Assuming that's a typo, because even Magic Kingdom, the busiest theme park in the world, 'only' gets something like 17 million per year.

 

[Altonsky]

Assuming that's a typo, because even Magic Kingdom, the busiest theme park in the world, 'only' gets something like 17 million per year.

Got to be!

 

[rob@rar]

That’s an odd article. Nothing new, and am I mis-remembering that the hotel size has been suggested at 800 rooms following a briefing to one of the local councils, so the Sky piece might not be up to date? Also 20M visitors seems a bit bonkers, especially for a single gate resort. Has anyone seen any video on Sky News accompanying that piece on their website? I saw yesterday on Facebook reports that a Sky News helicopter had been spotted flying over the site at Bedford, as well as the reports here of a camera crew on the ground. Perhaps it was for a news item? Perhaps it’s start of a PR push anticipating the next step in the journey around 8 July?

 

[Dinosaurus]

The economic report has been added to universalukproject.co.uk here: https://universalukproject.co.uk/wp...niversal-UK-Economic-assessment.-June2024.pdf

 

[rob@rar]

The economic report has been added to universalukproject.co.uk here: https://universalukproject.co.uk/wp...niversal-UK-Economic-assessment.-June2024.pdf

Hence the news report from Sky’s business editor. Makes more sense now. Week by week more evidence that Universal’s plans are moving forward.

 

[Dinosaurus]

The document is actually named 'UniversalUKProject.LocalLetter.April2024' so seems they've held onto this for a while before publishing. Interesting!

 

[JoeMcSqueezy]

But wait I thought Universal definitely weren't building a Park and we’re just gonna wait to sell off the land at a better price

 

[Lost Meerkat]

Interesting. As Sky are actually part of Comcast, this makes me ponder that this is a PR step in the process that is partly intended to throw the bait out to the incoming Government. It clearly paints a very rosy picture of economic benefit, coupled with the need for the Government to invest in infrastructure. Perhaps this is designed by Comcast to put a little pressure on?

 

[rob@rar]

I’ve been searching for the economic impact assessment for a little while, assuming it would be part of Universal’s planning submission to the government. You can see the EIA for the now abandoned London Resort here. I’ve not found anything for the site at Bedford, but with Universal publishing some of the headline figures I guess that report has been completed. One possibility for the independent company which has done that work is LDP Partners, whose project works includes a Universal Studios new park feasibility study.

 

[rob@rar]

The document is actually named 'UniversalUKProject.LocalLetter.April2024' so seems they've held onto this for a while before publishing. Interesting!

Are you sure that’s correct? From the link you provided to the PDF file it appears that it is titled “UK Economic Assessment June 2024.pdf”

 

[Lost Meerkat]

I’ve been searching for the economic impact assessment for a little while, assuming it would be part of Universal’s planning submission to the government. You can see the EIA for the now abandoned London Resort here. I’ve not found anything for the site at Bedford, but with Universal publishing some of the headline figures I guess that report has been completed. One possibility for the independent company which has done that work is LDP Partners, whose project works includes a Universal Studios new park feasibility study.

It did surprise me that it was not linked to the news article, You have saved me the bother of trying to find it, I was just about to give it a go. Hopefully it will come into the light soon, it will be an interesting read.

 

[extrobeiuf]

Are you sure that’s correct? From the link you provided to the PDF file it appears that it is titled “UK Economic Assessment June 2024.pdf”

Look at the tab name

 

[rob@rar]

Look at the tab name

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On my web browser (Safari on a Mac) the Tab name is the same as the PDF file name, which is "Universal-UK-Economic-assessment.-June2024.pdf"