Merlin Entertainments to open the latest Legoland Resort in Wallonia, Belgium.

Merlin offers at present three Legoland Resorts in Europe – the last being Legoland Resort Deutschland, more than 20 years ago.

When open, it will be the 14th Legoland Resort in the world, creating 1000 jobs from the first day of opening.

An important investment of up to £350m has been made available for the 70-acre theme park, carpark and themed hotels.

The area of the new Legoland would be situated in a densely populated area near to major transport facilities, airport and motorway. The park aims to attract a core group of visitors of around 1.5 to two million visitors.

John Jakobsen, COO for LEGOLAND Resorts Group at Merlin Entertainments said: “This is another exciting ‘building block’ laid for bringing a potential LEGOLAND Resort to the many LEGO Fans across Wallonia, Benelux and Northern France. We will continue to work closely with the Walloon Government and the City of Charleroi and our stakeholder partners at SOGEPA, SFPI and SORESIC to hopefully make this vision an awesome reality.”