New Arena Development
Plans were announced in August 2008 for a new arena to be built on the outskirts of Durham at Belmont. The proposed development was planned to open in December 2009 centred around a 3,000 seater olympic-sized ice rink and was hoped the venue could be ready for the 2010/11 ice hockey season, heralding a potential return of the Wasps to Durham. This project never came to fruition, but it is still hoped that an ice arena could return to Durham in the future.
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