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Originally Posted by Hip Priest
I might submit a planning application for a cheese theme park.
My plans have the unfortunate aspect that pretty much the whole of Birkenhead North would have to be demolished, along with the MacDonalds in Birkenhead town centre. On the plus side, however, pretty much the whole of Birkenhead North would have to be demolished, along with the MacDonalds in Birkenhead town centre.
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I laughed hysterially at this. Oh, Birkenhead jokes. And also, the humour in the absurdity of anybody getting planning permission for a cheese theme park is beyond human comprehension.
Whoops, cumbria beat us to it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4461911.stm
A £44m cheese "theme park", creating 70 new jobs, is to be built in Cumbria, council planners have confirmed.
Dutch consortium, Partners in Cheese (PiC), is to build the Lakeland Dairy Park at Lillyhall, near Workington.
The park will be built around a state-of-the art cheddar cheese factory, which will initially use 250 million litres of milk.
The scheme is good news for the area, which has suffered more than 300 job losses in recent months.
Made of a number of Dutch dairy businesses, the company has already appointed project managers to build the plant in the wake of planning approval from Allerdale Borough Council.
It has pledged to use milk from local farmers at the plant, which is expected to open in April 2006.
'Great enthusiasm'
Ronald Akkerman, managing director of PiC, said: "Getting planning permission means we have cleared a major hurdle.
"We can now progress our discussions with both potential customers and prospective milk suppliers.
"At present, some 60-70% of milk produced in Cumbria is shipped out of the area for processing. There is great enthusiasm for keeping that milk in Cumbria, giving it an identity in the market place and adding value through a factory in which local milk producers have a stake.
"In addition, we have experience of a similar project in Holland, built along comparable lines and with the same ownership structure.
"That is making good profits and returning a healthy milk price to local farmers. We will be able to do the same thing in Cumbria." A public meeting on the company's plans is to be held at the Green Hill Hotel, near Wigton on 3 May.