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Planning News and Deals
St George’s Park, Stafford
Stafford
At long last St George’s Park can now proceed, following intensive and extended negotiations with Stafford Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council, Advantage West Midlands, English Heritage and many other parties, which has now enabled the Section 106 Agreement to be signed with the Council and for the project to commence. The scheme is being carried out by St George’s Park (Stafford) Ltd, part of the Chaseregen plc/Pritchard Group plc consortium.
Final designs are being prepared for the building works to commence which will be sent out to tender, along with a further planning application for internal configuration of the building retaining large areas of the existing ‘cell’ structure of the previous asylum building, along with restoration of the refectory and the chapel into Live/Work accommodation to complete the restoration project of St George’s Court, the magnificent Grade II building.
Also a further planning application is being made for a 100-bed Hotel on the site supplementing the managed workspace, which is likely to be procured from a major international plc player in the form of Regus of similar company. The building for which we have planning
There will be also nearly five acres of land devoted to housing of all descriptions, town houses, detached houses, semi-detached houses and apartments, which will again give a total mix on the site of accommodation.
Nottingham
Savills’ Nottingham, acting on behalf of Evans Brothers, has been successful upon Appeal to the Secretary of State in gaining planning permission for residential and B1 office development at the former Long Eaton Textiles Ltd site on Bye Pass Road, Chilwell, Nottingham.
The Inspector’s decision gives approval for the 1.92 ha (4.75 acre) site to be used for mixed residential and office development, with a maximum of 100 dwellings and 1,400 sq m (15,070 sq ft) of B1 office development.
Longbridge
St Modwen Developments is seeking to create up to 300 jobs by the development of nearly 75,000 sq ft of manufacturing and distribution buildings in the £5.5m first phase of The Cotton Centre, Longbridge, construction of which is now underway.
Planning consent has been granted for a total of 285,000 sq ft of new industrial development on MG Rover’s former car storage site off Groveley Lane, part of the 340-acre car plant which St Modwen is redeveloping.
The first two speculatively built units of 47,502 sq ft and 27,072 sq ft are scheduled to be completed late spring next year.
PRG Europe is currently fitting out the 157,000 sq ft former MG Rover parts distribution warehouse, adjoining the proposed development site, which it acquired from St Modwen late last year.
GVA Grimley are letting agents for the scheme.