{"id":357829,"date":"2026-01-07T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:25:07","slug":"uks-longest-ski-slope-gets-go-ahead-in-merthyr-tydfil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357829\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s longest ski slope gets go ahead in Merthyr Tydfil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Snow Centre in Manchester currently has the biggest indoor slope in the UK at 180m (590ft) but Marvel Limited, the developers behind the Merthyr Tydfil proposals, say their centre would be one of the biggest in the world with a slope of about 400m (1312ft) in length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would become the official headquarters for the UK (GB) and Welsh Olympic and Paralympic snow sports teams, according to the company, and sit alongside a conference centre, tropical waterpark, a hotel and lodge accommodation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm estimates it would create 1,500 construction jobs, including 1,200 from the local area, and then 800 jobs at the centre itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Snow Centre in Manchester currently has the biggest indoor slope in the UK at 180m (590ft) but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-357829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}