Park set for approval is outside city’s Local Plan

Multi-million pound plans to build an industrial park on the edge of Peterborough are being recommended for approval even though the site is outside the city’s development boundaries.

The outline application, which has attracted 200 objections, is for the construction of a £15.7 million business park on a 6.25 hectares site. It would have up to a maximum floorspace of 15,263 square metres featuring offices, industrial, storage and distribution units at Horsey Bridge, in Whittlesey Road, Stanground.

The site is not included in Peterborough City Council’s Local Plan which defines which plots of land can be used for housing or industrial development.

But developers Barnack Estates UK, which hopes to eventually construct 20 individual buildings ranging in size from 265 square metres to 2,000 square metres for small and medium sized businesses on the site and creating 412 jobs, has been warning for some time that Peterborough is running out of development land.

Rob Facer, chairman of Barnack Estates, said the application would be the first test for the planning committee to recognise the need to identify more employment land.

But the proposals, which will be considered by the council’s planning committee on Tuesday (March 21) have already triggered a wave of objections from nearby residents and politicians. Some 200 objections have been received from nearby residents concerned about noise and disturbance and the impact of extra traffic on local roads. For full story: www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news

Farmland behind Horsey Toll Bridge, Whittlesey Road, Stanground