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[{"type":"text","content":"\n UK Coal PLC\n13 December 2006\n\n\n\n UK COAL PLC\n\n\n• Planning permission granted for 60 acre Waverley business park\n\n• Planning application being made for Prince of Wales, Pontefract development\n\nLondon, December 13, 2006: UK COAL PLC ('UK COAL') today announces that\nplanning permission has been granted for its proposed 60 acre business park at\nWaverley, South Yorkshire, by Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. The\nbusiness park will comprise some 650,000 sq feet (60,000 sq metres) of mixed\nBusiness, General Industrial, Storage and Distribution, Hotel and Ancillary\nLeisure and Retail space.\n\nUK COAL today also announces that it has held substantial pre-application\nnegotiations with Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council and that, next week, it\nwill be submitting to the Authority the Planning Application for the\nredevelopment of its Prince of Wales site at Pontefract in West Yorkshire. The\nApplication will contain proposals for developing over 900 homes and some\n250,000 sq ft of employment space and community facilities. Planning approval\nis anticipated in the second quarter of 2007.\n\nJon Lloyd, UK COAL Director of Property, commented:\n\n'These are two of the core developments we highlighted in our November Property\nStrategy presentation, and we are delighted at the support we are receiving from\nRotherham and the constructive discussions we have had with Wakefield Planning\nAuthorities.'\n\n\nEnquiries:\n\nUK COAL Tel: 01525 381 759\nStuart Oliver Mob: 07774 231 178\n\nCitigate Dewe Rogerson Tel: 020 7638 9571\nAnthony Carlisle Mob: 07973 611 888\nLaure Lagrange Mob: 07768 698 731\n\n\n\nNotes to Editors:\n\n1. Highfield Commercial Business Park\n\nThis consent forms the first phase of the intended regeneration of the Waverley/ \nOrgreave area of Rotherham which in due course targets to provide\napproximately 4,000 new homes and up to a million square feet of employment\nspace with ancillary leisure, retail and community facility development.\n\n\n2. Prince of Wales, Pontefract\n\nThe Application will be made on 21 December and follows several months of\nconsultation with Stakeholders and detailed negotiations with senior officers of\nWakefield Metropolitan Borough Council with whom UK COAL entered into a\nRegeneration Partnership Agreement in the middle of 2006. The scheme is\nintended by UK CO...