High Court orders company behind £3.5bn theme park project to close

London Resort CGI

End of the road for the London Resort scheme after almost 14 years of development

Plans to build Europe’s biggest theme park on the outskirts of London have come to a definitive end after the High Court ordered the company behind the £3.5bn scheme to be wound up.

The London Resort, described as the UK’s version of Disneyland, was first proposed almost 14 years ago and was due to open this year at a site on the Swanscombe Peninsula between Dartford and Gravesend.

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