Days could be numbered for eyesore site
DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS AND TWO ACRES OF FORMER COAL MINE BACK ON THE MARKET FOR REDEVELOPMENT
A TWO-ACRE plot of crumbling buildings with links back to Swadlincote’s mining days could finally be redeveloped after being put back on the market.
The dilapidated brick buildings and four capped mineshafts could be bulldozed or restored. The twoacre plot of land, in Park Road, Newhall, is on the market for £500,000.
In 2019, it was revealed the same piece of land was on sale for £400,000.
The land, which is on a main route in and out of Newhall from the A444, once belonged to Bretby Colliery, also known as Newhall Colliery.
The colliery, as well as Bretby Hall and the land where Burton Golf Club stands, was later sold on from his Derbyshire estate by the Earl of Carnarvon to fund the worldfamous Tutankhamun expedition in Egypt to the 1920s.
Following its eventual closure in the 1960s, the land later became the Lodge Sturtevant Works, part of a firm which produced machinery for the power generating industry. The company has long since moved away, with land and buildings left abandoned for decades.
Derby-based Innes England, which is marketing the land, has said in its report that the site comprises 2.15 acres with 9,000 square feet of hardstanding which include what the company describes as “dilapidated” buildings.
The report said: “The site comprises the former Lodge Sturtevant Works.
“There are several buildings on site which are uninhabitable without major work. These buildings are situated in approximately 0.97 acres (0.39ha) of hardstanding with the remainder of the site being grassland.”
The firm has confirmed there were four capped mineshafts on site.
It comes as former mining land nearby is being developed into Cadley Park, comprising of 570 homes and a country park to be built alongside the new golf course and driving range.