Plans for a £30m indoor snow centre and leisure destination in Middlesbrough have received full planning consent.
Green light for £30m indoor snow centre
Plans for a £30m indoor snow centre and leisure destination in Middlesbrough have received full planning consent.
Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects, the scheme for developer Cool Runnings NE will be known as Sub Zero and will include an indoor snow centre, with a 165m main run and a shorter beginners’ too. The facility will also offer 5,000sq m of retail and dining, a bowling alley, trampolining and climbing centre as well as a sky bar providing panoramic views over the dock, town centre and iconic Transporter Bridge.
The development will bring back into use brownfield land to the north of Middlesbrough Dock in Middlehaven, neighboured by Middlesbrough College and the Temenos sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond, which has occupied the site since 2010.
The relationship between the two has been configured so that the secondary building uses provide active frontages to the dockside, with the potential for external seating and activity spaces. A balcony within the sky bar below the main run, will allow the clock tower and dock to be viewed from a new elevated position.