Blackpool tips airport sheds for consent
Plans for eight units totalling 243,000 sq ft within the town’s enterprise zone are due to be rubber stamped when the council’s planning committee meets next week.
Blackpool Council submitted reserved matters plans for the octet of units last year having already secured outline permission for the employment scheme and a new link road called Vickers Way connecting Common Edge Road with Amy Johnson Way.
The plans, submitted on behalf of the council by Cassidy + Ashton, are for seven industrial units ranging in size from 12,500 sq ft to 72,000 sq ft and a 4,000 sq ft retail unit.
Part of the site earmarked for the units use to be home to sports pitches, which have been relocated to a 35-acre sports village south of Common Edge Road as part of the first phase of the enterprise zone project.
The council will have two years to get on site after the approval of plans before the permission expires.
To learn more about the plans, search for reference number 25/0906 on Blackpool Council’s planning portal.
Blackpool Council is seeking expressions of interest from developers for the plots on which the units would be built. In total these plots provide 26 acres of developable land.
Concern about a) the distance from rear of 1 to 9 Oakwood Close and B) the height of proposed building to the immediate rear. Email to local Councillor to discuss was ignored.
By Philip bolton
We need a airport in Blackpool as we will get more visitors council missing a trick
By Smith