Gulliver’s World theme park have been given the green light to a proposal to bring forward part of a major project to expand.

The scheme was originally approved, subject to a number of conditions,  in September last year despite opposition from more than 600 nearby residents.

Now the borough council’s development management committee has agreed to allow a small part of the scheme to proceed as a first phase in advance of the conditions being met.

The committee was told the principle of the development had been accepted by the granting of the original application. The new Phase 1 would create a gated compound, facilities building and change of use of an existing building to be used as a storage/workshop compound.