A decision on whether to give the go ahead for the UK’s largest indoor slope, at Great Blakenham near Ipswich, has been put back by the UK government until May 8th.

A public enquiry on SnOasis last Spring had been thought likely to deliver a verdict on the plans by the end of last year but now the UK government has asked for more information on the project’s environmental credentials from the developers.

Godfrey Spanner, managing director of the company behind the project, Onslow, told local media,

I’m very upset, I just can’t believe the position that we’re in. After a full public inquiry, two public exhibitions, two years in the planning office and six months of public consultation, I find this decision quite remarkable and quite frankly absurd. The inspector went to great lengths and it was a very proper inquiry, we have done everything they’ve asked for.”

However protest group the SnOasis Community Alliance, which opposes SnOasis, have welcomed the delay as a good sign, they felt, that the government is looking at the proposal in what they consider is the proper detail.