Disneyland Australia: Metropolis of Port Phillip councillor Marcus Pearl says theme park not the highest precedence in Melbourne – as Geelong web site can be flagged

An area councillor has blasted a push to convey Disneyland to Australia saying there are extra essential points to be addressed earlier than constructing a brand new theme park.

Melbourne‘s Lord Mayor, Sally Capp, backed the thought for a Disneyland Down Below earlier this week with a doable location being close to Avalon Airport, which is south-west of Melbourne and close to Geelong.

Ms Capp firmly believes Melbourne’s surrounds can be the best spot for ‘the happiest place on earth’ with Fishermans Bend alongside the Yarra River flagged as a super location as nicely. 

Metropolis of Port Phillip councillor Marcus Pearl has claimed Ms Capp has ignored the true points dealing with Melburnians.

Mr Pearl singled out the realm that Ms Capp had recognized as needing ‘undivided consideration’ from the town’s authorities, not a theme park.

A plan to convey Disneyland to Melbourne may very well be scrapped as a metropolis councillor describes it as a ‘although bubble plan’ that does not handle present native points (Disneyland California)

Ms Capp described Melbourne as ‘Australia’s capital metropolis of enjoyable’, whereas talking to the media earlier this week.

‘In fact we must always have a Disney theme park in Melbourne,’ she stated on Monday.

She went on to isloate Fishermans Bend as it will permit for ‘exhilarating roller-coasters (that) may soar over the Yarra as a part of a Disneyland, Magic Kingdom or Animal Kingdom’.

Chatting with Sky News, Mr Pearl stated that whereas he was ‘all for revolutionary concepts’ that will appeal to vacationers to Fishermans Bend, the realm additionally wanted problems with public transport and housing addressed beforehand.

‘Whereas a theme park thought may add restricted leisure worth, it distracts us from our deal with the pressing and significant points which can be elementary to a thriving, habitable Fishermans Bend precinct,’ he stated. 

‘I implore the Metropolis of Melbourne to show their consideration and sources to addressing the dearth of motion from the State Authorities on Fishermans Bend moderately than thought bubble concepts.’  

Mr Pearl stated the town authorities’s willingness to construct Disneyland on Fishermans Bend earlier than addressing points within the space ‘displays the Metropolis of Melbourne’s lack of dedication to the precinct’.

The town’s Lord Mayor, Sally Rugg, described the thought as a ‘huge hit’, singling out Fishermans Bend (pictured) close to Melbourne’s CBD as a primary location for the theme park

Metropolis of Port Phillip Councillor, Marcus Pearl (pictured), stated the realm wanted public transport, housing and  open areas addressed earlier than constructing Australia’s first Disneyland

Fishermans Bend is only one of many places a Disneyland may very well be dropped at, with Sydney, Adelaide and the Gold Coast all beforehand making an attempt to host the theme park unsuccessfully.

One other potential landing spot for the theme park is a huge tract of land at Avalon Airport, north of Geelong, and about half an hour south of Melbourne’s CBD, which has already been put aside for an leisure precinct.

David Fox, chairman of Avalon Airport and son of billionaire trucking magnate Lindsey Fox, has reportedly beforehand held conferences with Disney.

‘There’s an leisure precinct that we have outlined. I would not say (for a) Disneyland at this second in time, however something is feasible,’ Mr Fox stated in March this 12 months of the plan.

‘With reference to different elements of the precinct, we have to get the rail connectivity lined up,’ he stated.

The closest Disneyland to Australia resides in Hong Kong, an over 9 hour flight away from Sydney.

Each day Mail Australia has approached Sally Capp and Marcus Pearl for remark.