FLAMINGO LAND’S revised plans for a holiday resort on the banks of Loch Lomond have broken planning law, legal experts claimed today.

The latest proposals to build 100 self-catering cottages, two hotels, a water park, and a monorail on the edge of Scotland’s first National Park, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, come after earlier attempts were met with a flurry of objections including from the local council, the Scottish Greens, the National Trust for Scotland, the Woodland Trust and Ramblers Scotland.

Flamingo Land had hoped that revisions to their plans would meet the concerns raised, but they have again been criticised by local Scottish Green MSP Ross Greer and leading planning law expert Ian Cowan.

Mr Cowan, of independent environmental and planning consultants Highland Environmental Law, claims that the revisions to the proposals are a “substantial variation” and mean the planning authority is duty bound to reject the application.

Mr Greer also stated that if the plans were given the go-ahead, he would be prepared to take it to judicial review.

He said: “If Flamingo Land cannot respect the planning process, far less actually get it right, and if they can’t recognise the strength of local and national outrage against what they are proposing, then how can they possibly be trusted as future custodians of an area of such national significance?”

Lomond Banks developments director Jim Paterson said: “If Mr Greer wishes to challenge any future decision of the National Park Authority, that is a matter for him.

“We remain steadfast in our belief that our plans for Lomond Banks will enhance its status as the gateway to Loch Lomond as well as providing an important economic stimulus to the local area.”