New £400m tourism development to start at Unstone in spring.

[Fly]

Chesterfield Borough Council and Destination Chesterfield, the town’s marketing campaign, have welcomed news of the Peak Resort project, which will it has been confirmed will be built on a reclaimed open cast mining site close to the Birchall Estate at Unstone, near Dronfield.

http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/grassroots/work-on-400million-derbyshire-tourism-development-to-start-in-spring-1-7052698

[Fly]

I found this.

In 2008 developers Birchall Estates obtained planning permission for the first phase of developments for a major development at the site.

And this.

2007 Erection of World Ecology Centre – Revised Information
(Substitution of Drawings and Documents Comprising
Reserved Matters Submission), Land at The Brushes, Sheffield
Road, Unstone, Chesterfield
Applicant: Ecodome (UK) Ltd

The County Council has been consulted on
a planning application for revisedproposals for the erection of a World
Ecology Centre at Sheff ield Road,Unstone. The site has had a long and detailed planning history and was
originally granted outline planning permission for a major leisure and tourism development in 1989.

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/images/World%20Ecology%20Centre%20-%203%20Dec_tcm44-13674.pdf

[Fly]

The plus's could even mean more work for the taxi drivers in Chezzy 

[Old Cruser]

I could go to Unstone for my hols that would save me a few quid 
I wonder if that's what the closure on the by pass is about.
I read it somewhere last week, but it's only for a short time

[Woohoo]

This the brainchild of eccentric Rupert Carr.  Whose family own "Carrs" crackers and buscuits he's been trying for years to get this going, it got put on hold in 08 as the crunch happened.
I used to golf up there regularly and I can tell you now it's going to cost millions and millions to get that land to drain properly, it's all clay and will be difficult to create a PGA standard golf course there.
But hey good luck to the project and hope it's successful. I'll spend money there. 

[Fly]

I'm all for good luck for any project that isn't going to cost the town money.
If the project fails, it's not on Chesterfield resident's council tax bills.
Unlike the new QP Leisure Centre 

[Pete]

I hope it does work out and get built, it would be a great boost for the local economy and for jobs too.

[Pete]

>> If the project fails, it's not on Chesterfield resident's council tax bills.

But you dont pay Chesterfield resident's council tax.

[Fly]

Isn't that more of a reason to not see them get lumbered with paying for it 

[Gerty Gumdrop]

This the brainchild of eccentric Rupert Carr.  Whose family own "Carrs" crackers and buscuits he's been trying for years to get this going, it got put on hold in 08 as the crunch happened.
I used to golf up there regularly and I can tell you now it's going to cost millions and millions to get that land to drain properly, it's all clay and will be difficult to create a PGA standard golf course there.
But hey good luck to the project and hope it's successful. I'll spend money there.

I met Rupert Carr a few times and even did a bit of work with him once.  He showed me the plans and they are pretty breathtaking.  I hope it all works out, though not sure how it will affect local residents.  There are some homes only a few hundred yards away.  Oh well, we'll see