A 130-room Radisson Park Inn is due for completion by summer next year as part of the £130m Waterfront development in Rotherham.

The 285-acre former pit site at Manvers, near Wath-upon-Dearne, is being turned into a 78,000 sq ft commercial park for local companies wanting to expand their operations and inward investors attracted by the proximity to the M1 and A1(M).

Waterfront is also designed to accommodate 821 lakeside homes, shops, a pub, a nine-hole 'pay-and-play' golf course and a driving range.

Stephen Holme, a director of Anglo-Dutch developers TCN UK, said: "We are very happy to have got off to such a good start with the hotel. The development will provide vital facilities which will, in turn, help us to kick-start some of the commercial elements of the Waterfront regeneration scheme.

"The developers, London and Hanover, and the contractors, Speymill Contracts, have excellent track records in delivering schemes of this type and it is great to be working with them."

Manvers was left derelict and contaminated after the pit and railhead closed in the 1980s. It became a massive reclamation project for Rotherham Borough Council and the biggest individual Enterprise Zone in the UK, part of the Dearne Valley Enterprise Zone.



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