Work halted on £37m Gulliver’s Valley theme park as owners issue update on opening

The 250-acre attraction just outside Sheffield in Rother Valley is scheduled to open in late spring, with bookings already being taken for June.

Its owners say they do not currently expect the disruption to affect its planned opening date but that could change.

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Julie Dalton, managing director of Gulliver’s Theme Parks and Resorts. said: “To ensure the safety of our staff and to adhere to the Government guidance for people to stay at home, we decided to temporarily suspend construction work on our Gulliver’s Valley site on Monday, March 23.

“While we could never have predicted the current situation, we do have ample flexibility built into our schedule for unknown delays or disruption. Therefore, this existing downtime is currently not impacting on when we'll be opening the doors. If this changes in the coming weeks then we will, of course, keep everyone updated.

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“In the meantime, however, please be reassured that our back office team are still working extremely hard behind the scenes to deliver a fantastic theme park that will entertain families for many years to come creating even better experiences, birthday party products, sleepovers and some really exciting special events yet to be revealed!

“We cannot wait to continue the build. We're ready to resume works as soon as it is safe for our teams to do so and we'll be sure to keep the public updated with any new information as the situation unfolds.”