A planned expansion has come under heavy fire!
Imagine you are Surf Snowdonia, the very first of the next generation wave pools. You swung wide your gates and let the world in almost four-years-ago. An eternity before Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, a lifetime before Waco’s Cable Park and Australia’s Surf Lakes.
You were the crowning achievement. The kick-off. You made people see the possibilities but does the surf universe care? Does the surf universe even know you are still around?
No. You are a relic. You are the Apple II so what do you do?
Build a hotel, activity center (centre) and zipline, of course.
Yes, the owners of the pool there in bucolic Wales have planned for an expansion but it is being objected to by nearby Snowdonia National and let us turn to the BBC in order to understand why.
Surf Snowdonia faces opposition to plans for a 106-bed hotel and activity centre offering 100 new jobs.
Community councillors in Dolgarrog back the £10m plans at the artificial lake, sited on a former aluminium works.
But opponents, including Snowdonia National Park, fear traffic congestion and the scheme’s visual impact.
Planning officers said concerns about flood risk and contaminated land should also be addressed before Conwy councillors approved any scheme.
A zip wire, over the existing surf lagoon, stretching from the proposed five-storey activity building would also be included, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Snowdonia National Park said it objected because it felt the building design was out of character and that the size and capacity of the scheme was excessive, complaints mirrored by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales.
And there we have it. “Snowdonia National Park said it objected because it felt the building design was out of character and that the size and capacity of the scheme was excessive.”
Let us study the building design.
Very stern, I think. Very Templehof Airport in Berlin which is a classic example of the Nazi style, best described as a stripped-down neoclassicism and/or a utilitarian style for major infrastructure projects and industrial or military complexes.
The size and capacity issue is understandable, I suppose. Would you want lots of dumb surfers coming to your back yard? Dumb surfers staying in a Nazi hotel?
Understandable indeed.
“Sometime in the near future a major earthquake will lay waste to the California coastline. And out of the rubble will arise a menace far more terrifying than the death and destruction. SURF NAZIS!” Poetry! All hail Leroy’s Mama and the Samurai Surfers, fuck I loved the late 80’s.
Complaining about it, If that, created 30 jobs.
Better?
Complaining? About it! If that created. #30 jobs.
Or is the proposed zip line a version of an updated gallows for public hanging of those commie SUPers or those trustafarians who transgress the drop in rule?
That would teach them a lesson about dropping in and the carcasses would eventually rot and drop into the water to feed the sharks.
Can’t help but wonder if same outcry would be made over a differing ‘sports’ facility hotel, regardless of the architecture.
Few in UK, esp Wales would label them ‘Dumb Rugby Players’ or ‘Dumb Male Choirists’.
On the other hand, the majority of surfers in UK who would attend that facility are trustafarian Londoners who just want one-up-manship party conversation fuel for their Instawank lifestyle microblogs / Gap Year continuation and don’t deserve any more handed to them. So fuck’em. Them and the fucking corporate away-day fat cats.
The lineups round the world are too crowded already.
You still stuck in traffic Scott?
It came from here! “The size and capacity issue is understandable, I suppose. Would you want lots of dumb surfers coming to your back yard? Dumb surfers staying in a Nazi hotel?”
Complaining about it created 30 jobs.
So true!