{"id":754373,"date":"2026-08-30T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754373\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:30:10","slug":"universal-theme-park-to-supercharge-northants-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/754373\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal theme park to &#8220;supercharge&#8221; Northants economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Creating a Universal UK resort and theme park in Bedfordshire will &#8220;supercharge the economy&#8221; in a neighbouring county, an expert says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Northamptonshire Council has backed efforts to ensure the area benefits from the \u00a350bn and 28,000 jobs the resort is set to generate for the UK economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Clinton, chair of the Northamptonshire Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP), said the development, due to open in 2031, is a huge opportunity for employment and tourism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The numbers are quite eye watering and it will have this ripple effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clinton added there are already &#8220;fantastic assets&#8221; in the county and events like the Formula 1 Grand Prix bring tourism into surrounding Northamptonshire towns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Arnull, leader of the council, said: &#8220;[The project] has the potential to create thousands of jobs, attract visitors from across the globe and provide lasting benefits for our local economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Creating a Universal UK resort and theme park in Bedfordshire will &#8220;supercharge the economy&#8221; in a neighbouring county,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}