Gloucester Quays' upper deck could become a ‘climbing wall theme park’

Ambitious business plans have been revealed to turn the upper deck of Gloucester Quays into a potentially "very profitable" "theme park meets climbing wall” centre for all ages.

Dear readers,

We publish earlier than usual this week, partly because we are working on a report on reaction from the business community to today’s Spring Statement by the Chancellor, and partly because the story below dropped in our lap.

Regular readers will know our Monday email edition is always free for all, and that we usually also publish on Thursday (a single story) and Friday (a full edition) and at least that last edition of the week is generally paywalled to help us pay for what we do.

Today, knowing a version of the story below by the Carmelo Garcia will go everywhere once we publish, we’ve gone early and left the paywalls off.

(Regular readers will also know we are the only independent news outlet in Gloucestershire to be approved by the BBC to use Garcia’s copy).

As for the Spring Statement story, it’s a report about a gathering at accountants Randall & Payne’s offices today (26 March); an invitation-only affair bringing together an ecclectic mix of business people and deliver…