Henry Boot has won planning consent for a £114m industrial and logistics scheme in the West Midlands.
The group’s property development business, Henry Boot Developments (HBD), is delivering the Phoenix 10 industrial and logistics scheme on behalf of partners Walsall Council, Homes England and the West Midlands Combined Authority. Situated close to the M6, the 44-acre scheme will provide up to 620,000 square foot of employment space and is expected to create up to 1,000 jobs. Henry Boot claimed it is the largest undeveloped site in the Black Country. The developer will appoint a contractor to the scheme in due course.
The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership has provided grant funding for the completion of remediation works.
A 2 million ft2 warehouse which is due to start on site in May has been secured with an as yet unknown national logistics provider.
The development, which secured planning only this month, is being brought forward by Newmarket Lane (a joint venture by Yorkcourt and HBD) and Mountpark at Wakefield Hub, a 200-acre industrial and logistics scheme adjacent to Junction 30 of the M62 in Yorkshire.
The development will have a gross internal area (GIA) of about two million ft2, spread across four levels and featuring a mix of warehouse and office space.
The site would also provide parking for more than 200 trucks and almost 800 cars. It is expected to represented a capital investment of £120m and would support about 100 construction jobs. It has been estimated that about 1,500 jobs would be created in the facility once operational.
By David Spereall
West Yorks News
If approved, the warehouse would be built close to this existing warehouse, run by Newcold, on Newmarket Lane. A decision on whether or not a gigantic new warehouse can be built close to land once earmarked for a community stadium is due next week. Developers Mountpark Logistics want to build a storage and distribution centre, measuring two million square feet, on land off Newmarket Lane in Stanley, Wakefield. Wakefield Council’s planning officers have acknowledged that the development would “dominate” the local skyline from certain points and result in the loss of biodiversity, but have nonetheless recommended the scheme be approved by councillors next Thursday.
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