"Look for another location, you say? Hmm, you know what, you might be on to something there!"
Another location would inevitably end up in the same scenario - with a bunch of tree huggers and NIMBY's coming out of the wood work to object at every opportunity and ensure millions more needed to be spent before a brick is laid - if the Victorians adopted this approach when building the railways in the UK they'd still be waiting for planning permission!
I doubt those objecting the loudest would even have known this site was a supposed SSSI had the resort not been trying to locate there! The areas would probably have been build on eventually by a smaller developers bit by bit and they'd never have heard of it
while I'm all for being environmentally responsible and not giving resorts like this scope to do as they please, it would seem there needs to be a bit of common sense applied here at some point - this supposed unique, irreplaceable, one of a kind amazing animal habitat is I believe a formal industrial site, so the critters living there obviously aren't too precious about where they shack up!
Given some of the responses to the proposals you'd think they were trying to build a toxic waste plant that burns Coral reefs, rainbows and children's tears!!
I suspect the original 'never gona happen' comments here referred to investors pulling out, which most of us probably expected - the likely cause of never gona happen is probably going to be the amount of red tape blocking the construction of a park anywhere in the UK. Sadly if this falls by the wayside I dont ever see the UK getting a new park