AN INQUIRY into Liquid Leisure’s alleged breach of planning permission is due to be held later this year.
The Datchet water park was issued with an enforcement notice by the Royal Borough in December 2020, requiring it to cease and remove most of the structures on site.
This is because Liquid Leisure changed its use without planning permission from water-skiing and windsurfing to an aqua-themed park, caravan and camping site, party venue, and a child’s play centre, facilitated by extensive unauthorised works in the green belt, a flood zone, and local wildlife zone.
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Water park bosses have appealed the notice and are seeking planning permission through the appeal process for a ‘slightly scaled-down version’.
They fear up to 300 jobs are at risk, wages of over £2.5m could be lost, and local suppliers could lose up to £500,000 of orders per year if the planning inspector sides with the council.
A council spokesperson said in March: “The enforcement action being taken will enable the lawful water-skiing and windsurfing use to continue and we have invited Liquid Leisure to regularise the position by making a planning application for a reduced scale enterprise which would reduce the harm that has been identified. The business can still choose to make an application.”
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A four-day public inquiry was meant to take place on March 29 but was postponed due to the planning inspector was ‘experiencing Covid symptoms’.
A new date has been set for November 8 at Maidenhead town hall.
Liquid Leisure has closed for the rest of the week “out of respect” for the family of an 11-year-old girl who died at the park on Saturday, August 6.
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