Developer plans business park on former Daw Mill colliery site

SPECIALIST developer Harworth Estates is planning to create a business park on the site of the former Daw Mill Colliery near Nuneaton.

It claims 1,400 jobs could be created as a result.

Harworth – whose shareholders are the Industry Wide Pension Fund and Coalfield Resources – specialises in regenerating former coalfields to bring them back into employment use.

The developer has submitted plans for warehouses and office units to North Warwickshire Borough Council.

Daw Mill Colliery closed in March 2013 with the loss of 650 jobs following an underground fire. Site demolition began in November.

The BBC reports Iain Thomson from Harworth Estates saying the firm had held an “extensive consultation” into the future of the site which included a traffic study.

“We will work with Warwickshire County Council, as the highways authority, on any required junction improvements…but this site is also rail connected and we are encouraging use of that,” he said.

The firm said some existing colliery buildings would be retained and a memorial garden would be built to remember miners who had died.