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Does anyone know what is happening with the Wycombe slope?
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I'm planning to move to Wycombe in the next couple of months and I wondered if anyone knows what is happening following the fire there?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

From their website ....

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO A MAJOR FIRE WYCOMBE SUMMIT IS UNFORTUNATELY CLOSED FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.

IT IS OUR INTENTION TO RE-DEVELOP THE SITE IN DUE COURSE WITH A NEW AND IMPROVED FACILITY BUT THIS IS MANY MONTHS AWAY. PLEASE REVISIT THIS SITE FOR ANY UPDATES THAT WE MAY HAVE REGARDING THE FUTURE PLANNING APPLICATION. IN THE MEANTIME IF YOU ARE ITCHING TO GET SKIING OR BOARDING THEN YOU CAN ALWAYS VISIT THE REAL SNOW SLOPES OF THE SNOWDOME IN TAMWORTH - tel: 08705 000011 or visit www.snowdome.co.uk
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

I understand that they are pursuing their aim of converting it to a Snowdome and that original plans to re open with temporary buildings have been shelved.
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kevinrhead, Sounds to me like that is going to take a long time!
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Move to Gloucester instead - our slope's still in full working nick (buildings and all!) Very Happy

And we've got a better rugby team...
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Very sad. Like Beckton (former dry slope in the East End of London) the site will probably sit unused for years while the planners discuss and the financiers deal.
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Was reading something yesterday that said they were already considering changing to an indoor snow slope and that the plans were already being considered. The site is owned by the same people that own Tamworth Snowdome and they had been looking into the possibility for a while.
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Yes, I have also heard that the plan to convert to a snowdome had been in discussions since long before the fire.
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stocky, That seems odd though. If thats the case why didn't they do that in the first place? I hope they do something soon, the South East is severely lacking in slopes at the moment.

I'm fortunate at the moment because I live 30 mins from the MK snowdome, but that will be a bit further away when I move to High Wycombe. Sad
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kosciosco wrote:
the South East is severely lacking in slopes at the moment.

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Aldershot
Bassingbourne (Royston)
Bracknell
Bowles (Tunbridge Wells)
Brentwood
Bromley
Chatham
Christchurch
Folkestone (short)
Guildford (v short)
Hemel Hempstead
Knockhatch (yep news to me too, just North of Eastbourne)
Newhaven (v short)
Sandown Park (shortish)
Southampton - 2 separate centres
Welwyn

... and MK

OK so all South or East of you, but that's a reasonable number in the South East.
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GrahamN, Newhaven is no more......and anyway it was very small, and inside !
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kosciosco, I think whilst all was running ok at Wycombe I think they were happy to keep things as they were. I know that there will probably be a bit of a ruckus if the plans are pushed ahead as I don't think the locals around the slope would be too keen for a huge complex to be built in the pretty countryside.

When I was working at the Summit we had quite a few complaints from the locals about the volume of the music and the lights and such. I once did a sponsored charity event there and wanted to do a 24 hour ski on the slope but it was knocked back because they didn't want the lights on through the night.

I can just see the barrel load of complaints they will get if they attempt to carve out the hillside to erect a new Snowdome.

Some people just don't get it do they? wink snowHead
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Yes, I have also heard that the plan to convert to a snowdome had been in discussions since long before the fire.


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If thats the case why didn't they do that in the first place?



The initial planning application had been turned down by the council.


A cynic might allegedly say that the fire was a good thing in submitting the plans again second time around. Allegedly.
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.

GrahamN, Well I consider Milton Keynes Snow dome to be a quality place, OK, it has its problems, but it is a good set up. I thought that the Wycombe Summit looked good in terms of the length and the size, but Bracknell is pretty pathetic last I saw and I think Welwyn is too - those are the ones I know.

so when I say severely lacking, I mean in terms of good quality places, I am not aware of any snow domes south of MK.
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

I believe the Wycombe race team currently train at Hemel but there were plans to also change that slope to a Snowdome.
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