22 Jul 2010
Thorpe Park seeks planning consent for new water ride
BY Martin Nash
In line with its Medium Term Development Plan that was submitted earlier this month, Merlin Entertainments' Thorpe Park theme park has applied for full planning permission to install a new water ride.
Subject to planning approval being received from Runnymede Borough Council, the 64ft-high (19.5m) ride - to be built by Canada-based WhiteWater West and with a scheduled opening date of 2011 - will be located in the area currently occupied by Octopus Garden.
With a theoretical capacity of 600 people per hour, the ride will be a family attraction where a maximum of six people ride upwards in a rubber raft via a conveyor belt to the top of the structure and then spiral downwards on a chute to ground level.
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