London SnowWorld News

The plans to transform the old dryslope at Beckton Alps into London SnowWorld floundered back in 2003, leaving an indoor slope half complete within the M25. The last news on SnowWorld we posted was back in 2004, but we had an email from somebody close to the project today who offered to fill us in ....More...

We found a snippet buried deep in the Newham Recorder's website from November 2003. It reads:£35 million entertainment planned complex.A state-of the-art indoor winter sports, entertainment and casino complex is set to create up to 1,000 jobs in Newham. Cresney Ltd, an international business ....More...

"Mr Paul" sent us an email. It says:Beckton's London Snowworld is not dead. Newham Recorder, Wednesday 25th Feb 2004 reveals that fresh details have been revealed about a £40 million flagship entertainment venue complete with casino for the old Beckton Alps. International buisness consortium "....More...

We have it on good authority that both parties bidding to resurrect the half built Beckton indoor slope have failed to make any progress. The last we heard was that the Cathedral Group were taking the development forward, but it seems they may have floundered. The original developer (Svein Olsen) ....More...

It looks like a slope is once again destined for the site of the old Beckton Alps. The Stratford Express (dated week ending 25th Oct 2003) reports:£35 MILLION STATE OF THE ART INDOOR SPORTS COMPLEX FOR BECKTON!!!!!A £35 million indoor winter sports entertainment and casino complex is set to ....More...

A new £425m bridge is being planned to cross the Thames at Beckton. This would do the London Snow World no harm at all, assuming it eventually gets built. More...

The Evening Standard (London) reports:Plans to build one of the country's largest indoor ski slopes in east London are back on, with two bidders battling it out to take over the 20 million London Snow World venture at "Beckton Alps". The bidding war is breathing new life into a two-year-old scheme ....More...

The Evening Standard reports:Plans to build one of the country's largest indoor ski slopes in east London are back on, with two bidders battling it out to take over the £20m London Snow World venture at 'Beckton Alps'. The bidding war is breathing new life into a two-year-old scheme to convert a .... More...

AD has seen an advert in the Estates Gazette (a magazine for commercial property) advertising the Beckton Alps site for sale (1.3ha / 3.3 acres). The site is being sold on behalf of London Snoworld via the administrators (Jamie Taylor/Mary Fry of Begbies Taylor) via Edwards Symmons Surveyors. .... More...

We've now seen a copy of the Snow World insolvency notice (PDF format), so it looks like it's all officially down the pan. Whether anything will rise out of the ashes remains to be seen.We've also found out what the "good news" we were promised for early 2003 was. It seems the developers had ....More...

We're now hearing from a reader who's contacted the receivers that they know nothing about handling the insolvency of the London SnowWorld. We'll try to contact them tomorrow and see what's what, but if this turns out to be a joke then somebody could be in some serious legal trouble from the ....More...

The Newham Recorder today holds a small notice on page 42 column 3 that the London SnowWorld was put into the hands of the receivers on 21st March 2003.The company details match those from Companies House. It could be a late April Fool of course, but given the fact that this is a tiny ad in the .... More...

Although the developers don't have any information for us, they have been in contact. They realise it's dragging on, but it is still moving forwards. As soon as they have a re-start date for construction they will let us know. They haven't forgotten about us all.

Paul Barrett has been at it again! He's managed to trace the contractors responsible for the installation of the London Snow World internal lift systems and other internal construction installations. They are very sure that the project was about to re-commence and are currently waiting to hear from ..More...

We had news from Paul Barrett, a local at Beckton. He's been "snooping" around the London Snow World site and to his amazement found two workman at the site repairing the internal fencing. It turns out these two builders work for Newham council and they have been asked to secure the site for the ....More...

We've received a copy of a what seems to be part of a Confidential document concerning the London SnowWorld. It's really just a re-hash of the press release from 18 months ago and seems to be available on the web anyway.From the document properties, it seem like this was written in July 2002 and .... More...

We've had an email from Paul who says:I live in Beckton and am happy to say that someone has actually been to the site and fixed all the boarding around the site leaving the possibilties open more more work soon, hopefully!We've still not heard from the developers about the news they hinted at back ..More...

We had an email from FG who's been doing some digging around. He's contacted MACE, the company doing the actual construction, who say that things are still moving forward.The local council are all in favour of the project moving forward.The developers have promised us some good news, so we'll get ....More...

We're getting several emails every day asking about the current state of the London Snow World development in Beckton, London. At the current time the project remains stalled, but developers have said they should have some good news for us very soon, probably this month.

Despite the rumours flying around about the London Snow World project in Beckton, the latest from the developers is that slope is still moving slowly forward. This is what they have to say:There are times when it is best to say nothing... this is one of them. Lot's going on and you will be the ....More...

Sprezzatura sent us his musings on the London Snow World development at Beckton.I would hate to see that the best views of the City of London from the East are gone forever, in that at least 50 feet of the top of the Alp have been pared away for...? Who knows? The longer the weeds grow, the ....More...

SN has sent us some history of the London Snow World site. What with little activity over the last three months we thought we'd post something up.The Beckton Alp is an old slag heap from John Beck's Gas Works. As such, it has two dangers - noxious tars, oils and other byproducts of the Gas works ....More...

There are a few rumours floating our way at the moment concerning the Beckton "London Snow World". We have an excellent source close to the development, who assures us that all is moving forward to the latest schedule - a planned opening for July 2003. As you'll be aware, we have rumours of many, .... More...

Our man in the field, JB, has said that the construction of the London Snow World seems to have slowed considerably recently. Whether they've hit any problems or whether this is just going as planned, we don't know, but the recent announcement of a delay to opening would indicate that things aren't ..More...

The London SnowWorld at Beckton, London has delayed opening until July 2003. The board felt that trying to open by Christmas thisyear was just too fast to complete all proper commissioning, procurement, head hunting for staff, etc. They say:SnowWorld is going to be a top notch venue and better to ....More...

JB has got some more pictures of the construction of the London Snow World. There's lots of concrete terraces now in place and considerable piling going on which will form the foundations of the actual slope.

We've been contacted by the developers at the London Snow World, who say that things are progressing. Ther are trying for a late November opening, but construction being what is we, cannot guarantee it. We'll keep you informed.

The original Beckton Alps dry slope was built on the spoils of one of the largest gasworks in Europe. Construction of the London Snow World is now underway and we have some fine shots of the site and the workmen in their protective boiler suits courtesy of JB, our man in the field.

SB has just got back from a skate session and here’s the latest from the building site at the London Snow World: Construction is underway. M.A.C.E. Construction are on the job and have 4 excavators, a drill bore and a couple of cement trucks on site. The old lodge/restaurant/ski shop at the ....More...

Sprezzatura sent us the following interesting information about Beckton past and present:Diana opened the old, "inverted-toothbrush" ski-slope back in 1989. Since then, it has been the only Irish-Swiss-Alpine-Lodge themed pub, perhaps anywhere on planet snow! It suffered from low air-fares - real ..More...

It has long been one of the urban myths of the new Docklands that a steam locomotive was buried amid tonnes of polluted industrial waste when pioneering officers of the London Docklands Development Corporation decided to built Beckton Alps, the ski lift and log cabins development that carried one ....More...

The London SnowDome is now the London Snow World and was officially launched at the Daily Mail Ski and Snowboard Show on Friday 26th October.The slope should be open by Autumn 2002, will be 200m long, 30m wide at the top and 60m wide at the bottom with no pillars. Prices will be £19/hour peak.Read ....More...

The development at Beckton, London is to go by the name of the London SnowDome. This is the official name of the development and now that we're talking to the developers we hope to have some more insight into the slope over the coming months. All is well with the World.

A website has appeared for the Beckton indoor slope development. Although it only contains an artist's impression of the slope, one interesting feature is an external funicular railway up the side of the building. This is something we hadn't heard of before and we'll try to chase up any more .... More...

Construction on Beckton's indoor slope will start in September this year and they expect the slope to open in November 2002. They will be using Acer Snowmec guns to create the snow, so it will be a Snozone rather than Snowdome snow experience.Although rumoured to have the UK's first indoor chair, ....More...

The Beckton Alps slope has now been competely stripped. Photos from our on-the-scene reporter JB show the slope is now laid bare, although no other progress is in evidence. More...

The Beckton snowdome will be funded by a Norwegian company and may use similar technology to the Snozone. t.a.c. provided much of the snow making climate control for Snozone with Acer Snowmec whose system is actually used, providing consultancy. Luton based t.a.c have also been asked to tender for ....More...

The dry slope at Beckton is currently being dismantled. An auction on the 5th May saw most things go, but there does seem to be a few ramps lying around if anybody is interested and wants to make them an offer.The uplift has gone, most of the Dendix has gone and some of the outlying buildings have ....More...

CK reports that the Beckton Alps dry slope is now closed. It looks like the work to convert the slope to real snow is now underway.We've tried emailing the slope for many months with no reply. The phones are also not being answered, so we're going down on spec next week to see what's afoot. We'll ....More...

London Snowdome Ltd are planning a £10 million scheme at the Beckton Ski Slope in East Ham, London E6. The project comprises alterations and enclosure of existing ski slope to form 24,727 sqm, indoor real snow ski slope, restaurant/bar, shop, crèche, ancillary offices and a travel agents. Tenders ....More...

Snowboard UK reports that Beckton's impressively steep 200m Dendex slope will start to transform into an indoor slope at the end of April 2001 when demolition of the existing slope will begin. McAlpine hope to complete construction in time for a grand opening on the 1st May 2002.The transformation ....More...

We've heard that Beckton have put out a tender for somebody to create real snow for them. This would suggest that the unconfirmed rumours of an indoor slope may be true. We still haven't heard from Beckton themselves.

We hear from a regular at the dryslope at Beckton, London that they have permission to work through the night to get an indoor slope done and frosted within 10 months.We've yet to get anything from Beckton Alps themselves, but we're on the case.If it goes ahead, the slope will be close to two .... More...