Business park a step closer
By Martin Chapman on Saturday, 25th May 2002.
A sixty-four acre site, one million square feet of development and up to 4,000 jobs; The Haverhill Business park is now one step closer with planning consent being granted.
The 64 acre site next to the A1307 straddles the Suffolk/Essex border has potential to include a variety of warehousing, office and warehousing units, alongside a hotel, restaurant and petrol station.
Carisbrooke Investments the developed of the site has signed agreements with both local councils, St Edmundsbury and Braintree to provide improvements for the community. These include a traffic management scheme, landscaping, cycle routes, and a wild grassland area.
MP Richard Spring and Nic Rumsey, director of Carrisbrooke, led celebrations after the planning consent was approved.
Mr Spring said: “"I have been supportive of this development since the beginning and am delighted to see Haverhill Business Park going ahead. The council is promoting a brighter future for Haverhill and the business park is a key part of this.”
Upbeat about Haverhill’s future Nic Rumsey said: “The planning consent is great news, both for us and for Haverhill, and reflects the town's tremendous prospects as a growing location in East Anglia."
He added that negotiations were already under way with a number of interested groups.
St Edmundsbury Councillor, Gerry Kiernan supported the project saying the site was crucial to the success of the town. He said: “We want employment in the town as housing grows and this site has got to deliver on that.”
The Park will be developed over a number of years and it is not expected that the Hotel site will be taken up until commercial use begins.
The 64 acre site next to the A1307 straddles the Suffolk/Essex border has potential to include a variety of warehousing, office and warehousing units, alongside a hotel, restaurant and petrol station.
Carisbrooke Investments the developed of the site has signed agreements with both local councils, St Edmundsbury and Braintree to provide improvements for the community. These include a traffic management scheme, landscaping, cycle routes, and a wild grassland area.
MP Richard Spring and Nic Rumsey, director of Carrisbrooke, led celebrations after the planning consent was approved.
Mr Spring said: “"I have been supportive of this development since the beginning and am delighted to see Haverhill Business Park going ahead. The council is promoting a brighter future for Haverhill and the business park is a key part of this.”
Upbeat about Haverhill’s future Nic Rumsey said: “The planning consent is great news, both for us and for Haverhill, and reflects the town's tremendous prospects as a growing location in East Anglia."
He added that negotiations were already under way with a number of interested groups.
St Edmundsbury Councillor, Gerry Kiernan supported the project saying the site was crucial to the success of the town. He said: “We want employment in the town as housing grows and this site has got to deliver on that.”
The Park will be developed over a number of years and it is not expected that the Hotel site will be taken up until commercial use begins.
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