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Report for UK Coal Widdrington Regeneration Partnership April 2009 Report For UK Coal Widdrington Regeneration Partnership April 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Background 1.1 Location of Blue Sky Forest 1.2 Project History 1.3 The Blue Sky Forest Concept 1.4 Local Economic Conditions 2 Tourism policy and tourism trends 2.1 Tourism Policy 2.2 Basic Tourism Offer 2.3 Visitor Trends and Spend 3 Original Blue Sky Forest proposals - critique 3.1 Overview 3.2 Indoor Snow Ski Centre 3.3 Adventure Centre 3.4 Holiday village 3.5 Hotel Resort with Golf Courses 3.6 Observation Tower 4 Revised proposals 4.1 Outdoor Dry Ski Slope 4.2 Adventure Centre 4.3 Holiday Village 4.4 Championship Golf Centre 4.5 Children’s Attraction 4.6 Water Sports 4.7 Driving Experience 4.8 County Events Centre 4.9 Equestrian Centre 4.10 Retail and Service Centre 5 Other development 5.1 Centre for Renewable Energy 5.2 Biomass Research and Demonstration Facility 5.3 Com-Vert Green Composting 5.4 Vertical Aeroponic Growing Systems 5.5 Peel Energy 5.6 Rail Linked Employment Site 5.7 Miscellaneous Development 6 The Masterplan 7 Implementation 7.1 Planning / New Unitary / LDF Core Strategy / RSS Revisions 7.2 The Delivery Model – UK Coal 7.3 Hierarchy of Projects and Project Phasing 7.4 Next Steps 7.5 Role of the WRP 7.6 Restoration as an Opportunity 7.7 Accessibility Appendices 1 Original BSF proposals – critique of KPMG 2004 proposals 1 Background Wardell Armstrong LLP with Bone Wells Urbecon Ltd are commissioned by UK Coal to review and update an original 2004 ambitious vision by KPMG for the creation of a new tourism and leisure destination known as ‘Blue Sky Forest’ in Northumberland. The Widdrington Regeneration Partnership has the strong ambition of generating significant economic and community benefits for the local area and the wider region. 1.1 Location of Blue Sky Forest Blue Sky Forest is located in an extensive area of open-cast coal mines located in the Northumberland County divisions of Chevington and Ulgham. These areas comprise several villages including Widdrington Village, Stobswood, Widdrington Station, Ulgham and Chevington encompassing the wards of Red Row, Hadston and Broom Hill in Northumberland (map of site location – see Figure 1-1). The sites identified for development are the Stobswood and Maiden’s Hall / Steadsburn surface mines. These sites cover over 600 hectares each and include two rail connected disposal points knows as Butterwell DP and Widdrington DP. This represents one of the largest brownfield parcels of land available for development in the North East England. The Maidens Hall and Steadsburn complex started over 28 years ago with the excavation of the West Chevington site. A common overburden stocking area was subsequently utilised by the Colliersdene, Maidens Hall, Maidens Hall Extension and Steadsburn sites. Bad weather and planning agreements delayed the diversion of the highway and coaling at Steadsburn eventually started in March 2008. The sites are owned by UK Coal and the proposed restoration programme is to return the land to a mixture of agriculture, woodland and water based uses incorporating a degree of public access via a network of footpaths. Stobswood at the latest estimate will be available for development by Autumn 2010, some two years prior to the availability of Maiden’s Hall. This presents an opportunity to phase the development of Blue Sky Forest. General road accessibility to the sites is good for current volumes of traffic although the main access road, the A1, does suffer from some peak time congestion. Road journeys from central Newcastle typically take between 30 and 40 minutes and Newcastle Airport is within 20 minutes drive. Rail times from Newcastle to Widdrington Station are 30 minutes. Road travel times could be reduced if ‘dual- carriaging’ of the remaining single-carriageway of the A1 is undertaken as planned. 1 Figure 1-1 Site location 1.2 Project History The KPMG 2004 Report presented a bold vision for the creation of the Blue Sky Forest. This included an ambition to: ••• create a mix of tourism and leisure attractions and facilities to attract visitors on a regional scale; ••• generate significant additional local and regional economic and social benefits; ••• enable the diversification of the area’s rural economy; ••• promote environmental sustainability; ••• encourage operationally and financially self-sustaining attractions, facilities and services. ••• offer the employment potential of over 800 direct full time equivalent jobs, and support a further 245 jobs indirectly. The vision included an indoor ski centre of national scale, an adventure centre, a hotel resort, holiday village, observation tower and ancillary retail and leisure facilities. Since 2004 little perceived progress was made to develop and deliver the vision. In 2007 a re-formed Widdrington Regeneration Partnership encompassed the support of Castle Morpeth Borough Council and Northumberland County Council to take the project forward, particularly trying within the review process to harness realistic private sector interests. 2 1.3 The Blue Sky Forest Concept The vision for Blue Sky Forest (BSF) remains that of creating a new year-round major tourism and leisure destination that includes a range of regionally significant indoor and outdoor attractions, facilities and activities as part of phased development programme. The mix of components will be sufficient to appeal to both local and regional residents and existing overnight tourists to the region as well as generating additional visitors, to the region. Furthermore, it will enable the diversification of the area’s rural economy, promote environmental sustainability and ensure the development of commercially led tourism and leisure attractions and facilities in the region. The Blue Sky Forest concept was established following a rigorous appraisal of alternative tourism and leisure land-use options. Each option has now been further evaluated against a range of criteria, including market, commercial criteria and strategic fit with the objectives and priorities of relevant local, sub-regional and regional public sector organisations. This has arrived at a preferred concept - a masterplan. Although tourism and leisure development forms the core of the proposed land uses in BSF, the scale of the sites is sufficient to accommodate other uses, complementary to the leisure activities. Proposals for these uses, including renewable energy developments, are described in this report. 1.4 Local Economic Conditions To show the local economic context for Blue Sky Forest a comparative appraisal has been made for some different economic parameters. For this purpose the following have been defined: • immediate locality: Chevington and Ulgham Wards • surrounding District: Castle Morpeth • neighbouring Districts: Alnwick; Blyth Valley; Wansbeck • sub-region: Northumberland County • region: North East Chevington and Ulgham Wards encompass the Widdrington villages and comprise the immediate Blue Sky Forest area – see Figure 1-2. The local Districts are shown in Figure 1-3. 3 Figure 1-2 Chevington and Ulgham Wards and Blue Sky Forest site The following section is an analysis of the employment status and trends in the wards of Chevington and Ulgham. The analysis is extended to the comparator areas of Castle Morpeth, Alnwick, Blyth Valley and Wansbeck. The last three of these districts are included in this section not just as comparators but because of the employment benefits they could derive with the implementation of the Blue Sky Forest project. Data from NOMIS and from the 2001 Census are used for the analysis. Figure 1-3 Blue Sky Forest local districts 4 Socio-economic assessment In 2001, Castle Morpeth had a population of 49,001, Chevington 3,223 and Ulgham 2,909. Table 1-1 shows this distribution of population and economic activity for the Blue Sky Forest parishes and the comparison areas. As can be seen, the distribution of the population by economic activity is very similar for Castle Morpeth and Ulgham, with around two thirds being economically active. The same figure is much lower for Chevington: 44.8%. Table 1-1 Total population and economic activity structure – study area and comparators Castle Blyth North Chevington Ulgham Alnwick Wansbeck England Morpeth Valley East Total population 3,223 2,909 49,001 31,029 59,719 61,158 2,515,442 49,138,831 Economically 44.8 62.7 61.7 65.1 65.9 62.2 61.3 66.9 active Employees 35.3 49.6 47.6 49.2 54.7 51.4 49.2 52.6 Self-employed 8.2 12.8 18.4 21.4 9.5 8.8 10.5 16.6 Unemployed 4.8 5.1 2.8 3.7 4.4 4.8 4.5 3.3 Economically 55.2 37.3 38.3 34.9 34.1 37.8 38.7 33.1 inactive Source: ONS 2001 Census; the last available verified source The economic activity rate for the district of Castle Morpeth is similar to the regional average but well below the England mean (66.9%). Rates of unemployment in the North East are higher than in England: 4.5% against 3.3%. Although Castle Morpeth is performing well (2.8% unemployed among the economically active population), the wards of Chevington and Ulgham show slightly more negative figures: respectively 4.8% and 5.1%. The percentage of self-employed people is higher in Castle Morpeth than in the rest of England and in the North East as a whole. Chevington and Ulgham have much lower rates of self-employment lower than the district mean, suggesting a less favourable employment structure. Employment trends and sectoral distribution ABI employment data provides a general indication of employment structure and trends in the areas under analysis, subject to limitations in the sample based data, including discontinuity in the time series. Trends are mixed as shown in 1-ure 3.
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