Developer Harworth Estates has submitted amended plans for the regeneration of the former Daw Mill Colliery in Warwickshire.
The colliery – which closed in 2013 after 47 years of coal production – will be turned into around 500,000 sq ft of light industrial space, intended to bring employment back to the area.
The plans have been amended after taking into account the views of community groups, local residents, councillors and businesses in a public consultation exercise.
Harworth Estates chief executive Owen Michaelson said: “We have responded to the concerns of the local stakeholders by reducing the size of the development by a third from our original application and by removing distribution units that will reduce movements by heavy goods vehicles to and from the site by more than 70%.
“We want to make best use of Daw Mill’s assets – its railhead and its high power supply – to attract end users that will move goods via the connection to the Nuneaton to Birmingham line.
“We estimate that we can deliver more than 1,000 jobs, once the site is fully developed, directly replacing the jobs lost when the colliery ceased operating in March 2013.”
The ownership of Daw Mill was transferred to Harworth following the insolvency of UK Coal Operations Ltd in July 2013.
