Find great staffTM leisure opportunities 27 JUNE - 10 JULY 2017 ISSUE 713 Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk Kent theme park loses Paramount brand London Resort Company involved but not one overarching Holdings (LRCH) – the studio leading the way. developer behind the Paramount “It doesn’t really change theme park in Kent – has anything. The branding is what announced a surprise split from will be shifting. The team, the the film studio, which was to consultants, the plans and the act as the masthead for the surveys are still working. It’s all multi-billion-pound attraction. on track from that side of things.” The £3.2bn London Paramount LRCH’s parent company, project was being lined up as Kuwaiti European Holding a major entertainment resort, Group (KEH), has invested with several rides and attractions £35m into the project so far. based on Paramount intellectual The opening date – scheduled property (IP) such as Star Trek, The for 2022 – has been pushed Godfather and Mission Impossible. back three times, with delays Those brands will no longer in securing land necessary to be used for the attraction, deliver the development. however, a LRCH spokesperson The project is still set to go ahead, though not under the Paramount banner Commenting on the confirmed that the project would company’s decision to halt the “still be going ahead” with its name changed with the BBC to use IP from Dr Who, Top Gear relationship, LRCH CEO Humphrey Percy to London Resort. Leisure Opportunities and Sherlock, as well as Aardman Animations, expressed his thanks to Paramount and added understands that LRCH is exploring new IPs to which created Wallace and Gromit. that LRCH was working closely with the local replace the Paramount brands – something that “We are in conversations with other authorities and community prior to submitting was previously a challenge with the overarching IP holders,” a spokesperson told Leisure its Development Consent Order later this year. Paramount masthead. 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