The Doncaster-based group, UK Coal, recently announced deals to bring three national housebuilders to Waverley near Rotherham and Sheffield, plus a contract for engineering giant Rolls-Royce to build a turbine factory on the site’s Advanced Manufacturing Park. The 710-acre Waverley site is built on the former Orgreave surface mine and coking plant, part of the Sheffield City Region Enterprise Zone. The engineering giant already has a research plant on the site, its Factory of the Future, which specialises in machining research.

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