Universal Studios GB council meeting update 18th July 2024

This video accompanies a post I made on Facebook. Click the link below to get involved.
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NOTE: The camera technician had the camera pointed at an empty seat with the wrong name for most of this video.
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[@RB-mq6em]

The invisible man had a lot to say.

[@Zveebo]

Very positive - change of Government is a slight spanner in the works, but given one of their key platforms is growth and building, I can’t really see them being anything other than enthusiastic to see this go ahead.

[@markp1222]

Democracy in action !!!! Not quite the spark of PMQ's, but if that's what it takes !

[@DanS33Toon]

Very very positive news!

[@TheMightyKinkle]

Sarah Hall both has a deep voice and is a ghost! 😂😂😂

[@MrUkbeats]

Let’s go……

[@indigopeas4047]

Excellent footage, thanks so much for sharing.

[@ProjectUniversalUK]

Many thanks!

[@Roughrider77]

I’m hundred percent satisfied and happy with this latest progress!.

[@ProjectUniversalUK]

👍

[@DouglasRickard]

decision towards the end of the year 😭

[@DouglasRickard]

so what.. they're going to start building a small station anyway that might not be used? we need an eenlightenment video

[@ProjectUniversalUK]

I would hope Universal would make an announcement before the station starts construction.

[@tuborice4571]

Doesn't make sense to start building a station before a decision has been made by GUGB

[@timothyrider1127]

​@@tuborice4571 A rail station for the nearby Wixams town development has been on the cards for 2 decades - long enough that a previously-approved 4-platform scheme was scuppered by funding issues following Network Rail's reclassification as a public body, which changed its borrowing mechanisms.
The current 2-platform scheme - as determined by Bedford Borough after they took over in 2018 - was approved in February 2023 and had been subject to further design work etc before UGB came to light 9 months later. Forging ahead with it is driven by S106 terms - it's part-financed by developer money (capped and most of it set aside for the previous scheme since 2006) that will expire unless station delivery is formally agreed by 29 July; even with the new government it may not be delivered otherwise.
If the government & Universal formally choose to proceed with the theme park and its infrastructure (4-platform station etc), that won't be an issue. Nonetheless, the council is hedging its bets - better to forge ahead and accept some degree of wasted work* than to treat the theme park as a fait accompli and, if it doesn't happen, risk killing off the 20-year Wixams station dream for good.
[* Construction of the station building & platforms can't begin in earnest until the tracks are slewed - during the Christmas break, perhaps]

[@Whothat1923]

Can someone simplify this for me?? Is this good news or bad news?? Is the park happening?

[@ProjectUniversalUK]

It's good news. It means they are still moving forward.

[@gunnyo50]

It means that the Bedford council are heavily wants this to go ahead. They're in the finer detail stage of the project for agreement with the various parties involved. This is good news that the main local council is pushing this hard for this to happen.

[@Roughrider77]

@@ProjectUniversalUK ❤️

[@tinseltits9855]

If it goes ahead, I pray the venue WILL NOT BE CASHLESS. I also hope that you WILL NOT have to be "vaccinated" to get in. Can anyone confirm this?

[@ProjectUniversalUK]

Nobody knows. Not even baby Jebus.

[@robbiejonyoung]

😂😂😂 trump likes a vaccination and even prone to a bit of bleach

[@Zveebo]

@@tinseltits9855 I can’t imagine it will anything other than cashless. Barely anyone uses cash in the UK even outside of theme parks - contactless payment is universal.

[@tuborice4571]

​@@ProjectUniversalUKhe knows alright mark my words.

[@happymaskedguy1943]

What on earth are you jabbering about? Go take your meds.