Blue Sky thinking takes off

Blue Sky thinking takes off

MULTI-MILLION regeneration plans for Northumberland villages are moving forward, 10 years after the blight of foot-and-mouth disease.The Widdrington golf academy Regeneration Partnership (WRP) has announced that several business partners have now come on board its ambitious Blue Sky Forest project to develop a sport, leisure and history of golf tourism complex on restored opencast land.The scheme is set to incorporate golf academy an international-standard golf course, the longest in Europe, with a golf academy, 300-bed hotel and spa, a dry ski slope, go karts, a holiday village Golf Game Rules and indoor leisure centre.Under new proposals there would be a national sporting academy.And there would also be a 15-turbine wind farm and other renewable energy schemes, with a visitor centre to show how they work.