More details revealed for planned £150m logistics facility

As part of further information submitted to East Riding of Yorkshire Council, images have been published of a retail logistics facility that will bring 1,300 to 1,500 permanent jobs to the Hull and East Yorkshire region.

The images are part of a package of updated and additional information provided to the council as part of a planning application for the £150m investment.

The facility will create hundreds more jobs in the operational supply chain and during peak months.

It will also support more than 1,000 jobs during the 17-month build phase, plus hundreds of extra posts in the construction supply chain.

The additional information has been provided by developer Wykeland Group in response to comments, questions and requests for further clarification from statutory consultees and members of the public following submission of the planning application in October and a consultation process around the plans.

The hi-tech logistics facility is proposed to be built on Plot E at Wykeland’s Melton West business park, off the A63 west of Hull.

If approved it will create new direct warehouse, specialist and professional jobs, across a wide range of functions, from warehouse operatives to engineering, IT, health and safety, procurement, fulfilment, supply chain management, operations, administration and finance roles.

Wykeland’s Development director, Jonathan Stubbs, said: “The new images illustrate how the facility will occupy a key plot at Melton West, benefiting from the existing infrastructure on and around the business park, which will be enhanced by a new roundabout approved under a previous planning consent.

“It will complement other facilities at Melton West and is consistent with the long-standing designation of the site for major employment uses of this kind.

“Most importantly, planning approval for this development will generate thousands of jobs and provide a huge economic stimulus that will be crucial to the region’s post-Covid recovery.

“The images are among a comprehensive package of further information addressing comments and questions prompted by the planning application and consultation process, including a Zoom Webinar attended by more than 200 local residents at the beginning of December.”

The proposed logistics centre, with a footprint of 558,000 sq ft, would be the latest major development at the 200-acre Melton West business park.

So far, Hull-based Wykeland has developed almost 800,000 sq ft of warehouse, distribution and manufacturing space at Melton West.

Construction is also currently under way on a further 250,000 sq ft of development – a Humberside Police command and control centre, a Browns Books distribution centre and a “last mile” retail logistics facility, all of which will be completed in 2021.

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