Eco Hotel Plan For UK’s Longest Dry Slope
Eco Hotel Plan For UK’s Longest Dry Slope
Published : 07-Aug-2023 07:14
A planning application for a major new hotel and spa located next to Hillend Ski Centre in Edinburgh has been submitted.
Landscape Hotels Ltd have submitted the application to build a hotel which will include "38 luxury eco-suites, individually set in the landscape and 102 traditional hotel rooms within a main hub including a presidential suite" next to the Midlothian Snowsports Centre which is itself currently in the middle of a multi-year multi-million-pound revamp into 'Destination Hillend' adding more attractions to the dry slopes such as zipwires and a mountain coaster.
Landscape Hotels' describe their plans lodged with Midlothian Council as a, "high-quality, sustainable hotel development" which will also include restaurants, bar, a spa, a conference centre and leisure facilities.
The company says that the "low carbon" hotel will use "a timber frame structure from, wherever possible, locally sourced sustainably sourced timber and renewable energy in the form of Solar PV's will be used extensively. Air Source heat pumps will be used throughout. The use of timber frame cross laminated timber creates a highly air-tight building … greywater harvesting: significant investment into landscaping biodiversity and natural sustainable drainage solutions."
Hillend is one of the world's longest established ski areas, first created in the 1960s, as well as one of the largest. It has two 400 metre main slopes, served by a chairlift, a recently added 130 metre terrain park and two nursery slopes.
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