Plans for the UK's seventh and largest indoor snow centre yet appear to be moving forward after two years with little news on developments being made public.
The centre, promoted as a kind of 2012 Olympic legacy and supported by London's Major Boris Johnson, is to feature indoor runs of up to 300m in length and be linked to the Westfield-owned Stratford City Shopping Centre, reported to be currently Europe's largest.
The 300m slope would be nearly twice as long as any existing in Britain and be one of the 20 largest in the world.
The latest news, reported by Costar UK , is that Westfield have bought a 4.6-acre site next to Stratford City from a railways company owned by the Department of Transport, which is thought to be the intended location for the indoor snow centre.
There are unconfirmed rumours that the operator of The Snow Centre at Hemel Hempstead north of London are being lined up to operate the new facility.