Paddy Tipping backs Gedling colliery development

Map of Gelding Colliery
Recently in the Commons, Paddy Tipping MP enquired:

Will the Deputy Prime Minister visit the Gedling borough area again in the next couple of months, to look at the excellent work that English Partnerships is doing at the former Gedling colliery site? It has made £2 million available for regeneration there. On his visit, will he also press the Tory-controlled Gedling borough council to get its finger out and grant planning permission there?

John Prescott replied:

I will leave it to my hon. Friend to give such very direct advice, but English Partnerships is certainly playing a major role in the coalfield communities. Many of them have been transformed, and given hope where there was only despair after the massive closure of the pits and the communities by the previous Administration. It is a delight to visit those areas now to see that they are providing, in some cases, more jobs than were involved in the pits themselves. New ideas and innovations, very much led by English Partnerships, have brought the public and private sectors together. The Glasshoughton site is now a ski instruction area, which employs more people than were involved in the mine. The chief ski instructor is an ex-miner, which is good.

I don't know much about the Gedling colliery proposals, but given the pressure on Nottingham's green belt (eg Top Wighay), it seems a good place for a bit of infill. It would appear that somewhere in the order of 1000 homes are proposed.
There's no information on the the English Partnerships website about it. But some quick digging on the Gedling council site reveals some concern over provision of school places, and pressure on local roads (which are certainly at capacity in the mornings).