A huge new water park with a hotel, holiday homes, restaurants and shops could be built less than an hour's drive from Nottingham.
Plans have been drawn up to convert a disused quarry in a Derbyshire village into an attraction the size of 22 football pitches.
DerbyshireLive reports the Amber Rock Resort would be entirely built in the derelict Crich Quarry, close to Matlock on the edge of the Peak District.
An indoor waterpark on two levels would be the centrepiece of the scheme, featuring waterslides, a raft ride, a lazy river, an outdoor pool and a swim-up bar.
It would be built out of stone from the quarry, recycled timber, straw bales and glass.
Some of the quarry faces would be turned into climbing walls, there would be a zip-line from a viewing platform at the top of the quarry and a climbing and bouldering area.
There would be a restaurant, diving platform and boats in the lake, a fitness suite, a sports hall with four badminton courts, a heritage centre, bike hire, crèche, play area and mini golf.
A car park with 800 spaces would be built underground and accessed via a tunnel.
The company behind the huge project, Hillcrest (Crich) Limited, says that it would create jobs for 200 people during the construction phase and a further 100 full- and part-time jobs once the park is up and running.
A five-storey block of 210 holiday apartments would be built into the quarry face with suites ranging from one-bed through to four-bed.
The apartment block would include a supermarket, florist, photographers, bakery, a bowling alley, laundry services and craft classrooms.
The hotel would be five-storeys high and have 116 beds, with glass panelling at the front and a grassed roof so that it blends in with the top of the quarry. The hotel would include 10 family suites, cater for weddings and other functions.
In the grounds of the quarry, there would be 148 lodges built out of straw bales and repurposed timber frames.
Of these, 56 would be luxury lodges, complete with a sauna and games room.
Meanwhile, seven would be floating lodges, close to the lakeside.
Water-powered lifts would get visitors up and down the site’s buildings.
If approved, the development would take five years to build.
The firm has applied to Amber Valley Borough Council for an environmental impact screening, ahead of formal planning applications being submitted.
A report submitted with the application by Pennyroyal Design Group, on behalf of the applicants, says that the project aims to “create both a high quality and complete guest destination”.
It continues: “Whilst also acting as a catalyst for community regeneration by way of supply chain and job creation to create a wholly sustainable holiday village, sympathetically and sustainably designed.
“The proposal takes advantage of a striking location without significant visual impact, nestling as it does into the man-made amphitheatre created as a direct result of decades of limestone quarrying.
“The creation of an attractive leisure facility to complement and augment the local area’s numerous natural and man-made attractions will do much to convert existing ‘day-trippers’ into potential overnight ‘stop-overs’.
“The on-site facilities are for the use of resort residents by way of enhancing the visitors' stay into an all encompassing holiday experience.”
Access to the development would stretch past Crich Tramway Museum and the Sherwood Foresters Memorial Tower.
The quarry has been disused since 2010.
The developers says that there is the potential for a regular bus service, subject to demand, for guests to Matlock and the town’s train station.
It is thought that once formal planning applications are submitted, they would be submitted in two batches.
One would be to clear and prepare the quarry, the other would be for the construction of the huge development.
