Part of the site used to be a brickworks. Planning restrictions in the UK mean most development is on brownfield land like the 2012 Olympic Park, the docklands Canary Wharf office area and the new Battersea power station complex.
It will be interesting to see how this progresses. As a Brit I’d love to see a world class resort here but we have more than our fair share of NIMBYs who will campaign to stop things - the former planned London Resort Paramount park was stopped, in part, becuase of a rare spider. That said the current government is looking for good news stories so this could get more support.
I really hope this opens and is a success, as well as benefiting the UK it might also spir Disney to do more in Paris, a rising tide lifts all boats
