Office Building and Pride Park Stadium - geograph

Pride Park is a business park on the southern outskirts of the city centre of

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, England. It covers 80 hectares of contaminated former industrial land between the River Derwent and railway lines, and was developed between the 1990s and early 2000s. Pride Park Stadium, Derby Arena and The Sanctuary Local Nature Reserve are also located within Pride Park.

History

The site was formerly part of the

Derby Works The Derby Works comprised a number of British manufacturing facilities designing and building locomotives and rolling stock in Derby, England. The first of these was a group of three maintenance sheds opened around 1840 behind Derby railway sta ...

railway yards, and was derelict for many years. It was the original site of Derby's railway manufacturing industry, but land here had also been used for gas- and coke works, gravel abstraction and

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. These uses left behind large amounts of industrial contaminants, including tars, phenols, heavy metals, ammonia and boron. Extensive redevelopment took place over 10 years to reclaim the

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, including the building of a new access road to open the area up. Ten hectares of the site was transformed into a Local Nature Reserve called The Sanctuary, in conjunction with

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Occupants

* It has been home of Derby County F.C.'s Pride Park Stadium since 1997, when they relocated from the Baseball Ground in the Normanton district. * Derby Arena is a multi-purpose sports and events venue adjacent to Pride Park Stadium, which opened in 2015. * A Park & Ride car park for access to Derby city centre is located next to the stadium. * Internet bank Egg plc had its headquarters and call centre in the business park until 2011, when it was taken over by Barclaycard, and closed. The building was subsequently occupied by HEROtsc, retaining its function as a

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. * The business park also houses a

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hotel and several car dealerships. * The sports goods retailer

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has offices on the Park. * UTC Derby Pride Park (formerly Derby Manufacturing UTC), a

university technical college A university technical college (UTC) is a type of secondary school in England that is sponsored by a Universities in the United Kingdom, university and has close ties to local business and industry. University technical colleges specialise in su ...

, opened in September 2015.

Expansion Plan

Derby County Football Club are proposed to expand facilities on offer around the football stadium with a £20 million development plan. This is despite the club being unsuccessful in their bid to include the stadium as a venue in England's bid to host the

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. On 3 October 2011, Derby County Football Club announced that it had submitted plans to

for a £7 million development of land outside Pride Park Stadium, which the club named "The Plaza @ Pride Park". These plans included five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. The plans were scaled down from the planned £20 million pound development proposed in 2007. Derby County CEO Tom Glick, said that these plans would help the club deal with the new Financial Fair Play regulations which will be introduced in the

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from 2012, as revenue from the Plaza will be reinvested back into the club. This planned development also coincided with a plan from the City Council to build a multi-use sports arena on the same site as the proposed Plaza.

References

External links

PridePark.Net
Directory of businesses and services based on Pride Park {{coord, 52, 54, 50.90, N, 1, 27, 30.38, W, type:landmark_scale:2000_region:GB, display=title Economy of Derby Business parks of England Areas of Derby