Super casino awaits approval
The site for the UK’s first super casino is still in the balance, according to the government’s advisory panel.
The Casino Advisory Panel has refuted rumours that the Millennium Dome in east London has already been assigned the casino.
Chairman of the group, Professor Stephen Crow, told a public hearing in to the location of the new enterprise that the Greenwich site was not a done deal.
“We have made no such decision – in fact, we have made no decision at all until we have considered everything”, he said.
John Prescott’s recent stay at the ranch of Philip Anschutz, the man behind the Dome bid, was also dismissed as a factor of importance by Professor Crow.
Sites at Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield are also vying to become Britain’s first unlimited jackpot casino.
Earlier this summer, AEG began building the shell of the Dome casino in readiness for the announcement in December.
The firm claimed that it would be too costly to wait for the decision to be made.