[accyman]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

£75 million doesn't go far but- the Coppice?
It's got to earn its keep, make a profit even. Pull people in from a distance.

An adventure park? Cable car to the top, lots of frightening ways of getting down again, slides, those pulleys on ropes you hang on to and scream, one of those army style training courses, scaled down for children, paint balling in the woods, build a water world into the slopes with heated pool, surf rider.
Glass the quarries over to make an even bigger Eden Project, attract the Greens and tree huggers, a wheel like the London Eye, so you can see Pendle, the Ribble Valley, Accrington and if you're the right age just ignore the views and sit and cuddle in privacy for a half hour. Lit up at night, visible all over Hyndburn, discos for young teens and older ones in the Eden replicas so the place hums even at night, a tropical holiday night club(not much for them to do in Accrington at night?). Lots of car parking.
Most of all keep the Council out of it, leave it to local enthusiasts and franchised companies to steam it up.
I think I may have just spent £750,000,000 but Hell, think big!

i think the best thing that could be done with the coppice is leave it alone.There used to be a very distinctive spread eagle pattern visible for miles then some idiot messed it up by planting loads of trees all over the gaff.You dont need fancy stuff to make use of the coppice anyone who grew up around here will have fond memories up the coppice as a small child or even as a hormonal teenager