Big new developments put forward for Infinity Park
ULTRA-MODERN FACILITIES SET TO CREATE SCORES OF JOBS
TWO major developments are on the way for Derby’s Infinity Park industrial estate and could create scores of new jobs.
An early submission has been made to Derby City Council ahead of formal planning applications for two ultramodern schemes.
Pegasus Group, on behalf of Infinity Park Derby LLP, has submitted scoping opinion requests for the two schemes.
Scheme one would be for a huge 185,000 sq foot facility, dubbed “Project Ivory”, producing high quality, modern structural timber housing. If approved, the building would stand 12 metres high. The cost and number of jobs it may provide have not been disclosed.
If approved following a formal planning application, it would sit to the south of the existing iHub off a current undeveloped spur which stems off Infinity Park Way.
The second scheme would be a 48,000 sq foot “world class” manufacturing and research facility occupied by the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and the University of Derby. It would stand at 13 metres tall. It is thought it would cost £20 million and provide 70 jobs.
This facility would sit further south down Infinity Park Way towards Chellaston, to the north of a roundabout, close to the Moor Plantation of trees.
A huge flood prevention lagoon and other flood prevention infrastructure has also been submitted with the two facilities. It would sit to the west of the iHub.
Images submitted to the city council along with the early application show that both facilities would appear ultramodern, much like the iHub itself.
Construction of the two factories and flood prevention scheme would take 12 to 14 months, Pegasus says, with an aim to start work this summer, if applications are submitted and approved in time. This would see the schemes complete by summer or autumn 2022.
The firm says that the developments will not have any significant negative visual impact or knock-on effects on noise, pollution or traffic. It says these effects had been examined in the planning for Infinity Park. Pegasus writes: “It is in fact expected that the flood lagoon element of the proposed development will have a positive impact on future development by taking allocated land beyond the site out of the flood plain.”
It also says: “In the interests of strategic longterm planning, it is considered appropriate to ensure that the proposed development would not prejudice the delivery of the Infinity Garden Village.”
Plans for thousands of new homes, hundreds of acres of new employment space, attaching to Infinity Park, with a new junction and slip roads off the A50 are all in the works.
Planning applications for thousands of homes and facilities and the A50 junction have been pending for more than a year without public debate.