Initial Green Light For UK’s New Longest Indoor Snow Slope
Initial Green Light For UK’s New Longest Indoor Snow Slope
Published : 13-Mar-2025 07:20
A leisure development which will include the UK's new longest indoor snow slope has been given the green light by councillors at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, despite council officials recommending the plans be rejected.
First announced more eight years ago, the £300m Rhydycar West development will see a 300 metre long indoor snow slope, more than 100m longer than any of the five existing UK indoor snows slopes, alongside an indoor water park and other leisure facilities along with hotels and holiday lodges.
After more than a year of studying the plans, Merthyr council officers had recommended their rejection due to concerns over its planned location, sustainability, scale, impact on the view and ecology.
However, at a planning committee meeting on Wednesday, councillors instead backed the project which its hoped will create over 800 jobs and inject an additional £38m into the local economy each year.
One councillor said the project was the biggest proposal for the area in decades and that he had received more representations of support for the plan than any other in the last two decades. In total the council received more than 420 letters in support of the application with 25 against it.
However, the Council's green light does not mean the development will definitely be built. The Welsh Government had already 'called in' the plans a year ago and they'll now go to the country's Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW) for their decision.
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