Another pleasantly sunny day is forecast for Saturday as Greater Manchester continues to enjoy the warmer weather this Easter weekend.
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A watersports lake hosting activities including cable water-skiing, windsurfing and kayaking could open just an hour’s drive from Greater Manchester. Plans have been submitted to Preston City Council for the lake, along with a 12m high dry ski slope.
It’s the latest stage of major plans to transform Phoenix Park in the town into a modern and eco-friendly leisure attraction in the North West. The plans also detail that the facility will provide support and training to vulnerable children, LancsLive reports.
Huge climbing wall facilities, high ropes, a large wave pool, skate park, 4G football pitch and off-road biking are some of the features included in the wider masterplan for the site, with this recent planning application forming Phase 2. The site is located on Preston Docklands, accessed off Wallend Road via Riversway, and if approved will be open to the public to enjoy.
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The planned ski slope will be 95-metre-long slope, at a gradient of approximately 11 degrees. It will have a safe surrounding gradient which can also be used in part for uphill/downhill mountain biking.
Running alongside the ski slope is a mountain bike track providing for a downhill run for cyclists to practise. The proposed leisure lake is located at the western end of the site and will be used for canoeing, stand up paddle boarding (SUP) as well as other forms of leisure watercraft. In addition to this the lake will also incorporate a mechanical pully water-ski system to provide for carbon free water skiing on the lake within a specific and confined area.
The masterplan is the brainchild of Edward Sloan who formed Trax Motorsport in January 2000 on the banks of the River
Another pleasantly sunny day is forecast for Saturday as Greater Manchester continues to enjoy the warmer weather this Easter weekend.
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