‘Unpopular’ warehouse development gets go ahead
A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a 1.15 million ft2 industrial and logistics scheme outside the village of Enderby in Leicestershire has been given the go-ahead by councillors, after they rejected the previous application against planning officers’ advice.
By Liza Helps Property Editor Logistics Matters
The application for the 80-acre site, put forward by Drummond Estates and The Inverock Trust, garnered nearly 2,700 comments of which only 30 were in favour.
Original proposals for Enderby Logistics Hub envisaged four units and a training centre built on the site next to the Enderby Park and Ride, off St Johns being developed on an 80 acre plot next to Junction 21 of the M1 motorway. The amended scheme, which planning officers again directed council members to accept, no longer proposes a training centre, but instead includes three general industrial buildings in addition to the original fourranging from 53,000 to 500,000 ft2.
According to Drummond Estate and The Inverock Trust the proposal would represent an investment of £200 million in the local economy and would create around 2,000 permanent new jobs and 125 jobs during construction.
