Within ten years, the council hopes that what is now a derelict wasteland surrounded by crumbling, half-empty housing estates, will be transformed into a thriving area based around a complex of sports venues and businesses employing about 3, 000 people.

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The new hospice would be built on land off Belton Way West, surrounded by other green belt, including a woodland and grassland area known as Belton Hills.

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