Green light for 30-acre commercial site

Network Space Developments (NSD) has secured planning permission for warehousing and distribution units on a 30-acre site on Newmarket Lane, Wakefield.

The 152,000 sq ft scheme will comprise 12 commercial units of varying sizes of flexible storage space, along with offices.

The latest planning approval also covers a new access road onto Newmarket Lane, as well as car parking, service yards, landscaping, and ancillary road and drainage infrastructure.

Network Space Developments’ managing director, Stephen Barnes, said: “This is a prime commercial and industrial site that is just a few minutes away from Junction 30 of the M62 and the M1 interchange, making it an ideal location for national and international operators.

“The Newmarket Lane area has become established as one of Yorkshire’s most attractive logistic hubs and we are delighted to have secured planning that will help promote this prime location even further.”

The wider Newmarket Lane commercial area – once home to Newmarket Silkstone Colliery which closed in 1983 – covers approximately 200 acres, with potential development of up to one million sq ft.

Amazon, Newcold and Phoenix Healthcare are already established on site and there are currently around 1,500 people employed at this industrial and logistics hub. A further 1,500 jobs are anticipated once the area is fully developed out.

Spawforths were planning consultants to NSD for this scheme.