US media giant poised to submit plans for Europe’s largest theme park in Bedfordshire

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US theme park chain Universal Studios is working up a planning application to build the biggest theme park in Europe on a brownfield site in Bedfordshire.

Universal Destinations and Experiences (UDE), the company behind Universal Studios Florida and four other theme parks around the world, bought 476 acres of brownfield land just to the south of Bedford last year.

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