Tetrosyl’s HQ redevelopment plans backed

CAR care firm Tetrosyl has been granted planning approval to redevelop its Bevis Green HQ in Bury for housing.

The approval means it can now begin marketeing the site and looking for alternative premises within the borough for a new base.

The firm had submitted plans to build 275 new homes on its 26-acre site one mile north of Bury town centre close to the junction with Walmersley Old Road and the M66.

The site contains its headquarters building, warehousing and an R&D lab but the maker of the CarPlan and T-Cut brands has outgrown it and an earlier attempt to move seven years ago was thwarted by planning battles.

Since then, it has had to open overspill space at another site in Bury and a facility in Chadderton, Oldham.

Tetrosyl plans to relocate to a bigger site within Bury, but its planning application stated that “financial circumstances are such that there is a need to seek permission on the existing Bevis Green Site to part-fund a relocation to another site”.

Approval was granted subject to certain conditions – one of which is that if it chooses to relocate outside the borough it will pay the council more than £2.7m to compensate for the loss of employment land. The money would be used “to bring forward employment opportunities in other parts of the borough”.

Tetrosyl has been based at its Bevis Green site for 45 years.