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Leisure resort to be built in England's national park

Xinhua, January 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Investors from Britain and the United States will spend 400 million pounds (607.42 million U.S. dollars) to create a "world-class" leisure resort in England's scenic Peak District, local media reported on Thursday.

Peak Resorts will be an integrated all-weather, year round leisure, health, sport and education destination on the edge of the 1,440 square kilometer Peak District National Park in central England.

The development will create over 1,300 new jobs in the Chesterfield area, the Derbyshire Times reported.

The project brings together leading hospitality, university, sport and medical expertise and will include 600 holiday apartments, hotel and hostel units with 250 woodland lodges.

The project has been in the pipeline for more than 20 years, destined for the site of a former opencast coal mine at Unstone, near Chesterfield where there is already an 18-hole golf course. Endit