A bid to set up a crazy golf course in an empty warehouse has been turned down for the second time - despite claims officials got it wrong the first time around.  

Oceanus Leisure applied for planning permission to set up the new attraction in a former storage building on the Hardwick Industrial Estate in King's Lynn.

It also hoped to have a mobile catering unit outside the site on Scania Way close to the Sainsbury's superstore.

But similar plans were turned down in September after the council's regeneration team, Lynn's Business Improvement District (BID) and the manager of the town's Vancouver Quarter all objected.

They said the development should be sited in one of the vacant units in the town centre.

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The BID added: "We are concerned that if this proposal was to go ahead on an out of town retail site that it would undermine the opportunity for this type of development to occur in the town centre."

Oceanus reapplied, saying the council had "erred" by applying the wrong policies.

It said in a planning statement: "Perhaps the planning officer or department didn’t understand what was meant by an indoor crazy golf use, as they refer to it as a retail use throughout the officer report, or they are getting confused between retail uses and some uses you sometimes get within town centres.

"As the proposed use is not ‘retail’ it would not compete with the retail offering of the town centre."

Planning papers said the centre would create five full-time and five part-time jobs.

The statement said it will provide employment and leisure opportunities and also make use of a building which was previously vacant.

But the proposals have been bunkered again.