A £20m plan to regenerate a derelict industrial park in Stockport has been submitted to Stockport Council Planning Department following a vote of approval from local people.
Stockport may soon be home to a new retail park, including a supermarket and fuel station. Following a period of consultation in September, Scarborough Development Group have finally submitted plans to SMBC to develop the very derelict employment site Brighton Road Industrial Estate, running alongside the M60 in Stockport.
More than 70 per cent of people voted in favour of the plans to revitalise the partially dilapidated Brighton Road estate as part of a public consultation which ended on Friday.
Brighton Road Industrial Estate
sits off Didsbury Road
alongside the M60.
SDG acquired the site in February 2010 from the administrators of the previous owner Modus Properties and propose to transform the site into an 11 acre retail park including a car show room, petrol station, self-storage unit, supermarket and a drive-through restaurant.
The supermarket would have a shop floor of 25,000 sq. ft. and create around one hundred full and part time jobs.
The scheme would also see improvements made to the highway, and landscaping works carried out along the border of the site to enhance the view for local residents.
Scarborough’s development director, Lee Savage said: “We’d like to transform this run-down site into an attractive new retail park which will have significant economic benefits for the area.
“A number of the existing buildings are dilapidated beyond repair but this plan offers the opportunity to fully utilise the site again and create employment opportunities for local people at the same time.”
A recent decision has been announced that in Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council’s opinion the development IS NOT EIA development as defined in The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011. A decision is expected by February 2014.