Green light for 18-acre expansion at business park

Planning permission has been granted for an 18-acre expansion of Sheffield Business Park, adding a further 1,000 jobs to the site.

Sheffield Business Park (SBP)  has now received approval of its ‘Phase 4’ expansion plan, which will secure development on land between Europa Link and the A630 dual carriageway in Rotherham. There are currently around 2,000 employees based at the park and a further 1,000 roles could be created as a direct result of the expansion during construction and occupancy stages.

The remainder of SBP is 182-acres, with the total site including phase four topping 200-acres.

Phase four will create a prominent business gateway to Sheffield’s wider Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District (AMID), with the development set to include building footprints ranging from 10,764 sq ft to 107,649 sq ft of B1b (research and development), B1c (industrial process), B2 (general industrial) and B8 (storage and distribution) facilities.

Already home to the UK’s first state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, The University of Sheffield’s “Factory 2050”, SBP SAID the Phase four ‘masterplan’ will further complement the region’s Advanced Manufacturing specialism and provide opportunities for both OEM and their supply chain partners to co-locate in order to be situated close to world-leading manufacturing expertise and improve the efficiencies of any collaborations.

SBP were advised by a lead consultancy team to support on the planning application including Turley Planning Consultancy, Bond Bryan Architects, WSP and JPG Engineers.

Graham Sadler, Managing Director at SBP said: “Having planning permission granted for our Phase 4 ‘masterplan’ is an excellent outcome and provides further opportunity to attract OEM companies to join existing occupiers including Boeing and McLaren at the nucleus of the AMID. This will further establish Sheffield City Region as a world class advanced manufacturing hub.

“I’d like to thank the whole project team and Rotherham MBC for their tremendous work and support to date. We look forward to continuing working closely together to bring our ambitious plans to life.”

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