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Strategic Regional SitesAnnual Monitoring Report 2006

01 Introduction

Strategic Regional Sites

05 Cheshire and Warrington06 Alderley Park (AstraZeneca), Macclesfield07 Basford, Crewe08 Chester Business Park09 Omega South, Warrington

11 Cumbria12 Kingmoor, Carlisle14 Westlakes, Whitehaven

15 Greater Manchester16 Ashton Moss, Tameside17 Barton, Salford18 Carrington, Trafford18 Central Park, Manchester20 Davenport Green, Trafford21 Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale

23 Lancashire24 Cuerden Regional Business Park, Leyland/Preston25 Lancaster University/Bailrigg26 Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley28 Whitebirk

29 Merseyside30 Twelve Quays, Birkenhead31 Daresbury Park, Halton33 Ditton, Widnes34 Kings Business Park, Knowsley35 Liverpool Science Park (Edge Lane)36 Liverpool University Edge38 Parkside Former Colliery, St Helens39 The Estuary, Liverpool (Speke/ Garston)40 Wirral International Business Park

42 Appendices42 Appendix 1 Regional map: strategic regional sites

This report has been produced by the Planning Unit,Northwest Regional Development Agency

Contents

1The vision and objectives for the strategic regional sites are set out in the NWDA’s Strategic Regional Sites: Evidence Base and Emerging Issues Report, January 2005. 2Information on progress has been obtained from a variety of sources and every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided.

The Northwest Regional Development Agency(NWDA) has a portfolio of 25 strategic regional sites,the delivery of which will be critical to theeffective implementation of the Regional EconomicStrategy (RES).

Transformational Action 80 of the RES states that theNWDA will act as lead partner in delivering thestrategic regional sites as regional investment sites,knowledge nuclei or intermodal freight terminals. Thesites are therefore key priorities for the NWDA, to bedelivered in a phased manner over the next twodecades. The NWDA is working closely with bothpublic and private sector partners to deliver the sitesand take them forward through the planning system.

Significant progress has been made with the deliveryof the strategic regional sites over the period from April2005 to June 2006. A number of the sites have beenrapidly advanced by the private sector, includingAlderley Park (AstraZeneca) and Daresbury Park,

Halton. Development of the expansion land at ChesterBusiness Park, by MBNA/Bank of America, has nowbeen completed. Where the private sector is leading,the NWDA’s main role is support, particularly throughthe planning system. On the other sites, the NWDA isactively involved in funding site preparation, transportinfrastructure, and high quality office development andlandscaping, including The Estuary (Liverpool) andCentral Park (Manchester). Other sites are being takenforward through the planning system and the NWDA isworking closely with partners to secure appropriateplanning permissions.

The purpose of this report is to provide a summary ofrecent progress with the strategic regional sites. Thereport is divided into sections according to the fivesub-regions. Each section includes a map of the sub-region identifying the location of the sites, the visionand objectives1 for each site, along with a summary ofrecent progress2. The map at Appendix 1 shows thedistribution of sites across the region.

Introduction

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Wide-ranging progressProgress on the strategic regional sites over the periodApril 2005 – June 2006 has been wide-ranging andsubstantial. Key highlights include:

• Central Park, Manchester – construction of the£18.5 million Manchester Science and EnterpriseCentre (a co-operative venture between GreaterManchester’s three universities and the ManchesterCollege of Arts and Technology), known as OneCentral Park, has been completed. This will provide akey research, technology and business creationfacility. In addition, the £36 million GatewayInterchange opened in November 2005. This createsa new gateway entrance into Central Park, togetherwith a Metrolink station and bridge.

• Chester Business Park – construction of theextension to MBNA’s existing operations, whichincludes four new office buildings linked by a glazedatrium, has now been completed, supporting thecreation of a further 2,700 jobs.

• Daresbury Park, Halton – the NWDA is investingover £50 million to take forward the development ofthe Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus toestablish a world-class research and commercialoperation facility. This includes the development of apurpose-built facility for the Cockcroft Institute, aninternational centre for research and development inaccelerator science and technology, which willprovide a base for over 100 scientists andengineers. In addition, the Daresbury InnovationCentre provides 2,230 sq metres of high qualityoffice, workshop and laboratory space as well as arange of business support services.

• Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale – work is nowunderway on key infrastructure works for the 170hectare mixed-use business park, including theremodelling of Junction 21 on the M62.

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Daresbury Park, Halton

• Liverpool University Edge – the NWDA hassupported the development of a site adjacent to theMetropolitan Cathedral, now operating as LiverpoolScience Park Phase 1 Innovation Centre. This £10.6million development provides 4,065 sq metres ofpurpose designed accommodation for companiesinvolved in scientific research and knowledge basedindustries. Liverpool John Moores University wasgranted planning permission in February 2006 todevelop a new £20.75 million Academy for itsSchool of Art and Design, which is scheduled toopen in 2008. The Liverpool School of TropicalMedicine has developed proposals for a 7,000 sqmetre extension to accommodate primarily researchand development activities adjacent to its existingsite. This £25 million project is due for completion in2007. In addition the Liverpool School of TropicalMedicine has received a $50 million grant from theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund aninternational research programme, levered in by a£9 million investment by the Agency to fund a newCentre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases.

• Omega South, Warrington – the site is nowidentified in the adopted Warrington UnitaryDevelopment Plan (UDP) (January 2006).

• Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley – the relocationof Imperial Multipart (formerly LEX Autologistics) toROF Chorley is now underway, safeguarding200 jobs.

• The Estuary, Liverpool (Speke/ Garston) –construction of the National Biomanufacturing Centrehas been completed and is now undergoingvalidation testing. Full manufacturing operation isexpected by the end of 2006. Construction of thePrinovis state-of-the-art gravure printing facility hasalso been completed, and this facility is scheduledto be fully operational in early 2008, creating 400jobs, which could rise to 1,000.

• Westlakes, Whitehaven – a Nuclear Institute, to bebased at Westlakes, will bring world class scientificresearch to West Cumbria and link to a technologycentre at Sellafield. This project involves a fundingpartnership between the Nuclear DecommissioningAgency and the Dalton Institute, which is part of theUniversity of Manchester. This new technologyresearch facility will complement the well-established work of Westlakes Research Institute inenvironmental science, health and epidemiology,which is already based at Westlakes.

• Wirral International Business Park – theconstruction of an NWDA supported speculativeoffice and high-tech industrial development at thesouthern entrance to the business park, known asThe Gateway, was completed in Spring 2005.Construction of a new access road to reduce trafficcongestion in and around Wirral InternationalBusiness Park has also now been completed.

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Cheshire & Warrington

Alderley Park (AstraZeneca)Macclesfield

M56M6

Omega South, Warrington8

Basford, Crewe

Chester Business Park16

M53

M56

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Vision and Progress

Further development of Alderley Park is intended to present avery significant opportunity to continue to provide for theregion’s life science cluster, bringing substantial benefits for theManchester City Region and the wider regional economy. Thestrategic regional site will:

• Build on Alderley Park’s existing role as an internationalresearch, development and commercial centre; and

• Accommodate the need to replace, redevelop and expandbuildings for AstraZeneca to remain a competitive andsuccessful company.

In recent years AstraZeneca has been carrying outredevelopment works within the existing site. The NWDA hassupported a number of planning applications for redevelopmentwithin the existing site.

Location and Planning Context

Alderley Park occupies an area of 162 hectares. The majority ofthe site comprises parkland, woodland, farmland and lakes. Thesite is located on the A34 approximately 9km west ofMacclesfield. The proposed A34 Alderley Edge and NetherAlderley Bypass would improve access to the site and isidentified as a major scheme in the Cheshire Local TransportPlan. The scheme has been allocated for funding within the nextthree years as part of the Regional Funding Allocation process.Both Macclesfield and Wilmslow rail stations lie on the WestCoast Main Line and are situated in close proximity to the site.

AstraZeneca has operated a research, development andcommercial centre for its pharmaceuticals business at AlderleyPark since 1957. The site has developed as a centre ofpharmaceuticals expertise. Substantial investment has beenmade on the site over a 40 year period, in terms of both theexpertise of people, and site infrastructure and facilities. AlderleyPark is the international headquarters of AstraZeneca and itslargest worldwide centre for research and development. AlderleyPark is divided into two main areas of activity:

i) Mereside for research and development activities; andii) Alderley House for commercial and headquarters activities.

Alderley Park is identified as a major developed site within theGreen Belt under Policy GC4 of the adopted MacclesfieldBorough Local Plan (2004). A Planning Brief for the site wasapproved in April 1999. This site identifies an area within whichinfill development or redevelopment may take place.

Alderley Park (AstraZeneca), Macclesfield

Alderley Park, Macclesfield

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Vision and Progress

The development of Basford presents a key opportunity toreposition and diversify Crewe’s narrow traditional economicbase and help tackle its pockets of high deprivation, byattracting inward investment and providing space for indigenousindustries to grow. The strategic regional site will:

• Provide a high quality, well planned, flagship scheme forSouth Cheshire, which will enhance the image of the area ata key gateway to the region;

• Capitalise on rail access and the new road accessfrom the A500;

• Take advantage of Crewe’s railway andengineering background;

• Accommodate a quality mix of employment uses, withparticular emphasis on textiles, mechanical and otherengineering, automotive and food and drink at Basford East;

• Create a rail related warehouse and distribution park atBasford West to accommodate the sustainable movement offreight; and

• Make some provision for knowledge based industry at BasfordEast and West.

The proposals for Basford East and West are developer-led anddiscussions between the developers and Crewe and NantwichBorough Council are ongoing.

At Basford East, a road infrastructure scheme linking the A500to the A534, known as Crewe Green Link Road (southernsection), is being developed with potential funding from theDepartment for Transport, the landowners/developers and theNWDA. Land for the scheme is safeguarded in the Local Plan.In January 2005 the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister grantedgreenfield consent for the road scheme to enable thedevelopment of Basford East and West. The scheme has beenallocated for funding between 2009/10 to 2015/16 as part of theRegional Funding Allocation process.


The site comprises two parcels of land on either side of theWest Coast Main Line at Basford Sidings just south of Crewe(known respectively as Basford East and Basford West). Crewestation lies 1.6 km to the north of the site. The new A500Basford-Shavington Bypass forms the site’s southern boundaryand gives access to Junction 16 on the M6 which is located6 km to the east.

Both sites are identified in the Cheshire 2016 Structure PlanAlteration (Policies IND6 and IND8). Policy E3 of the Crewe andNantwich Borough Replacement Local Plan (adopted February2005) allocates the sites for strategic employment purposes.Both are greenfield sites, having previously been used foragricultural purposes.

Basford West has a gross area of about 55 hectares. It isallocated for a regional warehouse and distribution park underProposal E3.1 in the Replacement Local Plan. An outlineplanning application has been submitted for B1, B2 and B8development at Basford West and this is currently beingconsidered by Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council.

Proposal E3.2 in the Replacement Local Plan allocates about43 hectares gross at Basford East for major industrial andbusiness development including B1, B2 and B8 uses.Additionally, a further 49 hectares of land immediately adjacentto the Local Plan allocation at Basford East have planningconsent for employment use. A reserved matters planningapplication on part of this site has been submitted and iscurrently being considered. The landowners concerned arecurrently preparing comprehensive proposals which will beincluded in a planning application for the whole of the BasfordEast site.

Development briefs for Basford East and Basford West havebeen adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance by Creweand Nantwich Borough Council.

Basford, Crewe

Basford




Development of the expansion land at Chester Business Park,by MBNA/Bank of America, has now been completed. ChesterBusiness Park is the city’s most prestigious and largest officepark. It is located 2.4 km south of the city close to the junctionof the A55 and A483. It currently employs around 8,400 peopleand has created a quality business environment for more than70 businesses. Current occupiers include Marks and SpencerMoney, MBNA/Bank of America, Bristol Myers Squibb, HalifaxBank of Scotland and the Funding Corporation.

The extension land was acquired by MBNA/Bank of Americaand has been developed to create four new office buildingslinked by a glazed atrium, a staff cafeteria and support facilities.

Chester Business Park





Vision and Progress

Development of Omega is intended to provide a flagship site toattract inward investment and support key sector growth overthe next two decades. The strategic regional site will:

• Act as a regional flagship for inward investment by providing asite which has the environment, space and flexibility toprovide a unique offer within the region;

• Accommodate new development in the region, with particularemphasis on knowledge based industries;

• Accommodate generic manufacturing, especially if there is alonger term resurgence in such investment;

• Encourage growth of knowledge based industries;

• Provide space for growing indigenous companies who wish toexpand in a quality environment as well as inward investment,particularly in knowledge based industries; and

• Benefit deprived communities in the eastern Merseyside/mid-Mersey area, including Halton, Wigan, St. Helensand Warrington.

Omega is one of the national sites retained by EnglishPartnerships following the review of its role in 2002. In July 2001English Partnerships announced Miller Developments and RoyalBank of Scotland as its preferred joint venture partner fordeveloping the site. Along with the NWDA and WarringtonBorough Council, they have formed the Omega Partnership toplan and oversee the site’s development as a high qualitybusiness park over the next 20 years.

Omega is considered suitable for high quality growth targetsector development. It has the potential to accommodate650,000 sq metres of floor space and create approximately24,000 jobs.

Location and Planning ContextThe Omega South site (formerly known as Omega 600)comprises part of the former RAF airbase at Burtonwood. It islocated approximately 5 km north west of Warrington towncentre, being bounded to the north by the M62 motorway,Burtonwood Road to the east and Lingley Green Avenueto the south.

The Omega South strategic regional site extends to 190hectares (gross) of which 130 hectares are allocated as aRegional Investment Site in the Warrington UDP (January 2006).The remainder of the site, covering some 60 hectares, isallocated for non-strategic, local employment needs. Land to theNorth of the M62, known as Omega North, is allocated for B1,

B2 and B8 uses under policy EMP3. This does not, however,form part of the strategic regional site.

The site has a section 7(1) planning permission granted underthe New Towns Act for B1, B2 and B8 uses. In the WarringtonUDP (adopted January 2006) Omega South is allocated as aRegional Investment Site under Policy EMP2.

Warrington Borough Council approved a Context Brief in 2003as draft Supplementary Planning Guidance for Omega whichsets out the planning policy background and establishes broadprinciples for the development of the site. This context brief iscurrently subject to review and will be replaced with aSupplementary Planning Document (SPD).

An outline planning application was submitted in October 2003for Phases 1 and 2 on Omega North and the non-strategic partof Omega South. This is for primarily employment purposescomprising offices/research and development, industrial andstorage and distribution uses, along with some subsidiary usesincluding retail, food and drink and a hotel. The Phase 1 and 2application does not include any part of the 130 hectare OmegaSouth Regional Investment Site identified in the Warrington UDP.The Highways Agency has issued a holding objection on theplanning application until August 2006 pending the outcomeand verification of the transportation assessment.

An outline planning application was submitted in October 2005for 28,655 sq metres of B1 (office) floorspace and associatedworks at Lingley Mere Business Park, on the non-strategic partof Omega South. This application does not include any part ofthe 130 hectare Omega South Regional Investment Siteidentified in the Warrington UDP. Warrington Borough Councilresolved to approve this application in February 2006.

Omega South, Warrington

Omega South





Cumbria

Kingmoor, Carlisle

Westlakes, Whitehaven

Lake District National Park

M6

M6

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Vision and Progress

Development of Kingmoor Park will support the regeneration ofCumbria by providing space for indigenous industries to growand by attracting inward investment in an area of regenerationneed. The strategic regional site will:

• Provide quality jobs for the sub-region;

• Act as a focus for high quality indigenous growth andinvestment, encouraging high quality users;

• Accommodate generic manufacturing uses;

• Attract established and growth target sectors; and

• Accommodate some strategic distribution developmentincluding the rail freight facility.

The site has been managed by Kingmoor Park Properties Ltd, aJoint Venture Partnership between Carlisle City Council, CumbriaCounty Council and Alard Properties Ltd. Over 106,000 sqmetres of industrial and office space have been let to over 150businesses employing over 1,500 people.

Kingmoor Park, Carlisle

Kingmoor



Kingmoor Park, Carlisle

The NWDA’s involvement includes working with partners toassist in:

• Promoting the site as a strategic location for businesses andinward investment;

• Resolving the long-standing problem of lack of capacity in thearea’s primary electricity network – work is due to commenceon site in September 2006;

• Bringing about the construction of the Carlisle NorthernDevelopment Route;

• Opening up the expansion land for development; and

• Expanding on-site rail freight activities.


Kingmoor is the site of the former RAF Maintenance Unit (14MU)located on the northern outskirts of Carlisle between the A74and the West Coast Main Line. Road access to the site is viaParkhouse Road to the A7 Kingstown Road, which joins theM6/A74 at Junction 44.

The core of the site is split into five main development zones,as follows:

• Kingmoor Park South (19.8 hectares gross);

• Kingmoor Park Central (18.4 hectares gross);

• Kingmoor Park East (27 hectares gross);

• Kingmoor Park North (13.2 hectares gross); and

• Kingmoor Business Park (10.1 hectares gross).

The site is allocated for B1, B2 and B8 uses under Policy EM3 ofthe Carlisle District Local Plan (adopted June 1997). It covers atotal area of 88.5 hectares of which 36.2 hectares (net) aredevelopable. The Redeposit Draft Local Plan (August 2005)identifies an additional 30 hectares of land (known as theBrunthill land) as an extension to Kingmoor. The Cumbria andLake District Joint Structure Plan 2001 -2016 (adopted April2006) identifies Kingmoor as a Regional Investment Site.

Realising the site’s full development potential will require theconstruction of the Carlisle Northern Development Route. Thiswill provide a new route to the west of the City from Junction 44of the M6/A74 to the A595 serving West Cumbria. The CarlisleNorthern Development Route is one of Cumbria CountyCouncil’s highest priorities for implementation, and is identifiedas a major scheme in the Local Transport Plan 2006-11. It willsupport existing commercial activity and deliver essential high-quality access to the site, and is scheduled for completion inDecember 2008. The scheme has been allocated for fundingwithin the next three years through the Regional FundingAllocation process.

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Vision and Progress

Development of Westlakes is intended to present theopportunity to build on and develop knowledge based industryin West Cumbria, a peripheral area with a vulnerable localeconomy. The strategic regional site will:-

• Act as a flagship for inward investment;

• Attract knowledge-based industry, with a special emphasis ontechnology related to nuclear power and decommissioning;

• Assist in the creation of a centre of excellence for the nuclearindustry; and

• Accommodate the needs of knowledge based industriesincluding the growth sectors of environmental technologies,life science industries (biotechnology and pharmaceuticals),medical equipment and technology, financial and professionalservices, computer software and services, along withadvanced engineering and robotics, hazardous environmentoperations and project/programme management.

The NWDA has supported the development of Galemire Court,which will offer accommodation for up to 150 staff in 2,000 sqmetres of high quality, flexible space equipped with the latestbroadband communications technology. The target market iscompanies who will provide support services to the nuclearindustry and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) whohave located their headquarters on the park. The NDA willhandle the clean up programme for civil nuclear installationsincluding Sellafield, Dounreay and the Magnox Power Stations.A Centre of Vocational Excellence has been sanctioned throughthe Lakes College West Cumbria and GEN II Training Limited,based at the college at Lillyhall. This initiative and its partnersare part of the Nuclear Skills Advisory Group committee.

A Nuclear Institute, to be based at Westlakes, will bring worldclass scientific research to West Cumbria and link to atechnology centre at Sellafield. This project involves a fundingpartnership between the NDA and the Dalton institute, which ispart of the University of Manchester. This new technologyresearch facility will complement the well-established work ofWestlakes Research Institute in environmental science, healthand epidemiology which is already based at Westlakes.


Westlakes Science Park is located on the southern outskirts ofWhitehaven, off the A595 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness trunkroad. It is West Cumbria’s fastest growing employment site andis now the eighth largest science park in the UK. Developmentof the existing Phase 1 Science Park has been completed.

It provides over 12,100 sq metres of lettable space on a 16hectare site and is occupied by 39 businesses employing over850 people. Many of the companies on the Science Park areknowledge based, including services to the nuclear industry,health informatics and environmental sciences. Existingoccupiers include Computer Sciences Corporation, ReactEngineering, BNFL, Atkins Nuclear and Faber Design. TheWestlakes Research Institute has been established to furtherresearch and development into applied environmental scienceand healthcare informatics.

The Cumbria and Lake District Joint Structure Plan 2001-2016(adopted April 2006) identifies Westlakes as a RegionalInvestment Site. The Replacement Copeland Local Plan(adopted June 2006) Policy EMP1 identifies a further 19.12hectares at Westlakes for B1 (offices, research anddevelopment) and D1 (development associated with highereducation). All further development will be guided by adevelopment brief.

Westlakes, Whitehaven



Greater Manchester

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Barton, Salford

Carrington, Trafford

Central Park, Manchester

Kingsway Business Park,Rochdale

Ashton Moss, Tameside

Davenport Green, Trafford

M60

M61

M62

M62

M60

M602

M66

M56


Vision and Progress

Development of Ashton Moss presents the opportunity to createa strategic regional site which will:

• Provide a high quality setting for the development of B1a(office) and B1b (R&D) floorspace in greater East Manchester,an area of regeneration need;

• Provide a range of high quality developments including office,leisure and retail uses;

• Attract growth target sectors of environmental technologies,life science industries, medical equipment and technology,financial and professional services and computersoftware and services, with a particular focus on computingand ICT; and

• Accommodate high quality generic manufacturing andstrategic distribution.

Development completed on site includes three distributionwarehouses incorporating a call centre, a block of smallindustrial units, and a budget hotel. Development of the site hasso far led to the creation of over 1,000 jobs, 90% of which havebeen filled locally. The De Vere Group has also recentlyexchanged contracts to build a 122 bed hotel.


Ashton Moss is a 58 hectare (gross developable) site locatedbetween Ashton-under-Lyne and Droylsden. The site is directlyadjacent to the M60 orbital motorway. The Ashton NorthernRelief Route (Lord Sheldon Way) provides dual carriagewayaccess from Junction 23 of the M60 and to Ashton Town Centre.The route of the proposed Metrolink (Phase 3b) Ashton-under-Lyne extension runs through the site with two planned stationswithin the site. This would provide a direct light rail connectionwith Manchester city centre.

Policy E1 of the Tameside Unitary Development Plan (adoptedNovember 2004) allocates the Ashton Moss site for high qualityemployment development with uses including B1b research anddevelopment, B1c light industry, B2 general industry, B8 storageand distribution, and employment uses similar in character,including car showroom and C1 hotel uses. Part of the site atthe junction of the A635 and the Ashton Northern Relief Routehas planning permission for 9,290 sq metres of B1a officedevelopment.

Ashton Moss, Tameside



Vision and Progress

Given the change in circumstances since the originaldesignation of the site in 2001, it is proposed that the keyobjective for the site be revised from an original focus ongrowth target sectors to a focus on strategic distribution (portand rail related). It is envisaged that a vision and set of moredetailed objectives will be prepared in consultation with SalfordCity Council.

Salford’s UDP identifies a variety of planning issues to beaddressed prior to planning permission being granted, includingthe provision of road infrastructure to serve the site and secureimprovements to public transport access. A new motorwayjunction and access road to the Barton site will be required andvarious options for either public or private funding of that link arebeing investigated.


This brownfield site lies between Eccles and Irlam on thesouthern side of the A57 close to its junction with the M60(Junction 11). It is approximately 18 km from Manchester Airport.It has no direct rail access at present, but a rail link is proposedas part of a current planning application. The site also has a1.5 km frontage to the Manchester Ship Canal.

Barton is allocated for a strategic regional site in the Salford UDP(adopted June 2006). Policy E1 states that one, or acombination of any two of the following types of developmentwill be permitted on the 80.9 hectare site:

• A mix of light and general industry, warehouse anddistribution, and ancillary offices and other uses.

• A multi-modal freight interchange, incorporating rail and waterbased freight-handling facilities, and a rail link to theManchester - Newton-le-Willows - Liverpool railway line.

• A sports stadium for Salford City Reds with a maximumcapacity of 20,000 spectators and appropriate enablingdevelopment.

A specific site for a sports stadium and appropriate enablingdevelopment within the site is shown on the Proposals Map (asE1C). In April 2003, Salford City Reds RLFC submitted anapplication for a 20,000 capacity stadium with enablingdevelopment including a casino, hotel, and retail element on thispart of the Barton site. This application was called-in by theSecretary of State for his determination, and a Public Inquirycommenced on 20th June 2006.

In 2004, Peel Holdings Ltd submitted an outline planningapplication for an inter-modal freight interchange (incorporatingroad, rail and water transport links), known as Port Salford, onthe western part of the Barton site, with further supportingstudies submitted in 2004. The NWDA has submitted furthercomments on this planning application, to which we have nowgiven our full support.

Barton, Salford



Location and Planning ContextThis proposed major inter-modal rail served manufacturing andlogistics park site lies immediately to the south of the Shellmanufacturing and business park complex. The Carrington site,identified as the Trafford Interchange, was allocated for a majorinter-modal rail served facility under Proposal T15 of the DraftRevised Trafford UDP in June 2001. Following receipt of the UDPInquiry Inspector’s report (November 2003), a Direction from theSecretary of State (June 2004) and the preparation andconsideration of further evidence, Trafford Metropolitan BoroughCouncil resolved to delete the proposal from the Revised Plan.The Revised Trafford UDP (without the Trafford Interchangeproposal) was formally adopted by Trafford MBC in June 2006.

The NWDA will need to consider its position on Carrington in thelight of the content of the adopted Revised UDP and theemerging new development plan system – particularly thecontent of the revised Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for theNorth West.

Carrington, Trafford

Vision and ProgressDevelopment of Central Park presents the opportunity toenhance the image of Manchester by attracting inwardinvestment and providing space for indigenous industries,especially knowledge based industries, to grow in a criticalregeneration area. The strategic regional site will:

• Provide a flagship site in the Regeneration Framework for NewEast Manchester;

• Build on Manchester’s key strengths in the growthtarget sectors of environmental technologies, financeand professional services, life science industries(biotechnology and pharmaceuticals), tourism andcreative and media sectors;

• Accommodate incubator facilities and spin-off businessesassociated with the higher education sector, forming a bridgebetween academia and commerce; and

• Attract growth and established target sectors toEast Manchester, defined in the RSS as an area ofregeneration need.





Delivery of the project is being co-ordinated by New EastManchester (Urban Regeneration Company) supported by apartnership of the NWDA, English Partnerships and ManchesterCity Council. Phase 1 will provide over 130,000 sq metres offloorspace for a range of uses catering for corporate officespace for international and national companies, incubator spacefor expanding companies, and space for mid-tech business andfinancial services. Outline planning permission has beengranted on the 40.6 hectares of land in Phase 1. New plots willbe released gradually for development over the next 3-4 years.Infrastructure and site remediation on Phase 1 is now complete.

In March 2005 construction of a 13,900 sq metre businessvillage was completed, which has been pre-let to Fujistsu.Construction of the £18.5 million Manchester Science andEnterprise Centre (a co-operative venture between GreaterManchester’s four universities and the Manchester College ofArts and Technology), known as One Central Park, is also nowcomplete. The building houses educational, training and post-graduate research facilities as well as business incubator space.

A £36 million transport project, known as the GatewayInterchange, opened in November 2005. This scheme creates anew gateway entrance from Oldham Road into Central Park,together with a Metrolink station and bridge, ready to receive thePhase 3a Metrolink expansion, and feature landscaping.

Proposals are currently being considered for Phase 2, covering130 hectares and a draft Implementation Strategy is beingconsidered by all parties. It is envisaged that this will be amixed-use scheme, retaining existing housing and creatingpublic space together with new employment uses, whilstbuilding upon the core knowledge base created as part ofPhase 1. When complete, Central Park will offer up to 500,000sq metres of commercial floor space.

Location and Planning ContextCentral Park lies approximately 3 km to the north east ofManchester city centre and covers a total area of over 182hectares of predominantly brownfield land. Phase 1, to the northof the A62 Oldham Road, which is currently being developed, isa flagship development in the regeneration of East Manchester.The site is creating a major new high quality campus style sitefor business and industrial uses.

The site is adjacent to the A62 Oldham Road, which is a keystrategic route running from the M60 to the city centre and anidentified Quality Bus Corridor. The line of the proposedMetrolink (Phase 3a) Oldham/Rochdale extension will runadjacent to Phase 1 of the business park (extensions toMetrolink have been allocated for funding as part of theRegional Funding Allocation process). In July 2006 conditionalapproval was granted to Metrolink Phase 3a extensions,including the extension to Rochdale via Oldham. This allowsGMPTE to start the procurement process and construction of theline could start within two years.

The site’s potential was highlighted in the East ManchesterRegeneration Strategy. The East Manchester chapter of the UDPwas adopted in November 2003. Policy EM5 promotes a highquality business park comprising B1, B2 and B8 uses. B8 useswill only be permitted where they would cause no harm to thelocation of knowledge based B1 and B2 industries.

Planning permission has been granted for a 13,030 sq metrehigh quality speculative commercial development. It isenvisaged that a planning application will shortly be submittedfor a 5,000 sq metre (gross) accommodation comprising fivebusiness start-up units.



Vision and Progress

Development of Davenport Green will provide for a high quality,prestige site reserved for major international headquarterbusiness activities, in accordance with the Trafford UDP policy,bringing substantial benefits for Greater Manchester and theregional economy. The strategic regional site will:

• Capitalise on the site’s location in close proximity toManchester Airport;

• Attract high quality, science based/high technology industry,research and development activities, and headquarters officeactivities to the region;

• Accommodate companies of national or internationalimportance, providing substantial new employment activitieswhich would otherwise be lost to Greater Manchester;

• Promote urban regeneration by stimulating indirect and spin-off development and jobs in other parts of the conurbation;

• Create jobs of a high quality that are readily accessible todisadvantaged communities within Greater Manchester; and

• Ensure the conservation and enhancement of the landscapeand ecological features of land adjacent to the site that is toremain open and undeveloped.

It is currently anticipated that the developer (AMEC) will bringthe site forward for development.


The site extends to 136 hectares gross (36 hectares netdevelopable) and is located to the east of Hale, close toJunction 5 on the M56. The site has an excellent locationadjacent to Manchester Airport, and Metrolink access isproposed as part of the western part of the loop fromManchester city centre to the Airport (though this western loopis not included in the Phase 3b plans and is therefore subject tothe availability of further funding).

The site is allocated as a major high amenity site for B1 inthe Revised Trafford UDP, which was adopted in June 2006.A planning brief for development of the Davenport Green sitehas been prepared and is incorporated in the adopted UDPas an Appendix.

In January 2001, outline planning permission was granted for upto 46,450 sq metres of floor space for B1 uses (i.e. high qualityscience based/high tech, R&D or headquarters). This representsaround half of the 98,000 sq metres of floorspace which the siteis expected to accommodate. This outline permission wasrenewed in April 2003. The period for the submission of detailedproposals will expire in April 2009.

A section 106 agreement attached to the planning consentrequires highway improvements before development ispermitted. Discussions are taking place about the potential tocreate an access road to the site as part of the proposed airportlink road improvements from Junction 6 of the M56. Somedemolition of existing structures will be necessary prior to thecommencement of development.

Davenport Green, Trafford




Vision and Progress

Kingsway will be a high quality development easily accessibleby the proposed Metrolink from a wide area of north eastGreater Manchester with direct access from Junction 21 of theM62 motorway. The project will counter negative perceptions ofnorth east Greater Manchester, an area which suffers fromunemployment rates higher than the regional and nationalaverage, and has a generally vulnerable traditional economicbase. The strategic regional site will:

• Act as a regional flagship for inward investment;

• Provide a high quality business park to attract modernindustry and businesses, and provide opportunities forindigenous businesses who wish to expand in a qualityenvironment as well as inward investment, particularly inknowledge based and manufacturing industries;

• Attract growth and established target sectors to an areadefined in the RSS as a Regeneration Priority Area;

• Create job opportunities for the local population which areaccessible by a range of transport modes; and

• Accommodate an element of strategic distributiondevelopment.

The site is being taken forward by the Kingsway Partnership, aJoint Venture Partnership between the NWDA, Wilson BowdenDevelopments Ltd (Wilson Bowden plc), Rochdale MBC andRochdale Development Agency.

KingswayBusiness Park


Kingsway Business Park, Rochdale



In October 2004 the Secretary of State confirmed the NWDA’scompulsory purchase order (CPO) and highways and stoppingup orders for the Kingsway site. The site has now been acquiredvia a series of General Vesting Declarations.

Phase 1 infrastructure and utility works commenced in July2005, including the M62 Junction 21 access works. The site’snew link road A6193 and the M62 Junction 21 access work willbe completed in April 2007. Construction of the first buildings isprogrammed to start in late 2006 and they will be available foroccupation from Spring 2007. Phase 2 infrastructure works willcommence in April 2007 and be completed in early 2008. Thewhole site may take between 10 and 15 years to complete.


The Kingsway site lies some 2.5 km south east of Rochdaletown centre off the A664 Kingsway. The M62 forms the site’ssouthern boundary with existing access via Junction 21 atMilnrow. Metrolink access is proposed as part of the Phase 3aextension to Rochdale with a new station on the site’s northeastern boundary. The dedicated stop for Metrolink isexpected to be completed in 2011. Phase 3a schemeshave been allocated funding as part of the RegionalFunding Allocation process.

Kingsway is allocated under Policy EC/7 of the ReplacementRochdale UDP (adopted June 2006) for high quality general andlight industry, offices, distribution and storage, and research anddevelopment and associated complementary uses. The siteextends to 170 hectares (gross), of which 114.6 hectares isdevelopable and 32 hectares set aside for landscaped openspace and informal recreation.

The site has the benefit of three planning permissions:

• Outline permission (10 years from 1999) for the business parkcomprising a range of office, research and development,industrial, storage and distribution uses (B1, B2, B8) togetherwith two hotels, limited retail and leisure facilities totalling335,577 sq metres, plus 300 residential units and 32 hectaresof parkland;

• Full permission for construction of the spine road linking theM62 with the A664 Kingsway and related modifications toJunction 21 on the M62;

• Full permission for construction of the estate roads andsurface water attenuation areas. The two detailed planningconsents were activated by commencement of works inDecember 2004; and

• Further full consents will be sought for all individual buildingson site.



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Lancaster University/Bailrigg

Cuerden RegionalBusiness Park,

Leyland/PrestonRoyal Ordnance Factory,Chorley

Whitebirk

M61

M55

M58

M65

M6

M6

M6


Vision and Progress

Development of Cuerden presents the opportunity to provide ahigh quality employment site to encourage inward investmentand improve the employment prospects and profile of an areaaffected by the loss of traditional industries. The strategicregional site will:

• Act as a focus for high quality indigenous growth and inwardinvestment;

• Accommodate high quality generic manufacturing uses;

• Present a new image and provide quality jobs for thesub-region;

• Attract established sectors of chemicals, textiles, aerospace,mechanical and other engineering, energy, automotive, foodand drink;

• Develop links with the aerospace industry in Lancashire; and

• Make some provision for knowledge-based industry.

English Partnerships (EP) owns the majority of land comprisingthe Cuerden strategic regional site. South Ribble BoroughCouncil would like EP to take a lead role in bringing the siteforward for development. In March 2003 EP, South RibbleBorough Council and the NWDA commissioned Entec UK Ltd toprepare a scoping study for the South Ribble Regional BusinessProject (SRRBP), which seeks to deliver three complementaryemployment sites in South Ribble, including Cuerden. Thescoping study was finalised in August 2003. EP has agreed forthe present to retain its land holdings relating to the strategicregional site and work with the Borough Council and the NWDAin agreeing the plans for its future development.


The 65 hectare (gross) site at Cuerden lies between Leylandand Bamber Bridge, immediately adjacent to the intersection ofthe M6 and M65 motorways. From the north and south, the siteis accessed via Junction 29 on the M6 and the westbound M65(which directly serves the site). From Preston and the west thesite is approached via the A582 Lostock Lane or the A6. The siteis 0.8 km from Leyland railway station and 6.5 km from Preston.

Cuerden is allocated as a Major Inward Investment Site for hightechnology industrial and business development under PolicyEMP2 of the South Ribble Local Plan (adopted February 2000).The Replacement Joint Lancashire Structure Plan (March 2005)identifies Cuerden as a Regional Investment Site for high qualitygeneric manufacturing uses and knowledge based industry.

The land in English Partnerships’ ownership is a predominantlygreenfield site and in agricultural use. The adjacent land tothe south of the site (which is in third party ownership) hasplanning consent for sand and gravel extraction, which isnow well advanced.


Cuerden Regional Business Park, Leyland/Preston

Cuerden RegionalBusiness Park


Vision and Progress

Development of Lancaster University/Bailrigg presents theopportunity to create a premier employment site in Lancashirefor knowledge-based industries and university spin-out. Thestrategic regional site will:-

• Facilitate university related business developmentand clustering;

• Provide a high quality setting for move-on businesses whichstill require an umbilical link back to the university;

• Attract growth target sectors of environmental technologies,medical equipment and technology, financial andprofessional services and computer software and services,with a particular focus on computing and ICT; and

• Capitalise on Lancaster University’s reputation as one of theleading higher education players nationally in the field ofcomputing and ICT, with ongoing and productiverelationships with the major industries – Microsoft, Nokiaand Ericsson.

The NWDA has commissioned Capita consultants to advise onthe acquisition and development of the site. Fletcher BennettArchitects have prepared a masterplan for the site, followingdiscussions with Lancaster City Council. A transport assessment

is also currently underway. The NWDA is investigating thepossibility of securing an option to purchase the site conditionalupon the successful grant of planning permission.

InfoLab21 opened in February 2005 on the adjacent LancasterUniversity campus with support from the NWDA. Thedevelopment will establish a world class centre of excellence for


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Lancaster University

Vision and Progress

The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Chorley presents theopportunity to:

• Remediate a large scale derelict brownfield site;

• Act as a focus for high quality indigenous growth andinward investment;

• Accommodate high quality strategic distribution uses;

• Attract established sectors of chemicals, textiles, aerospace,mechanical and other engineering, energy, automotive, foodand drink;

• Present a new image and provide quality jobs forLancashire; and

• Make some provision for generic manufacturingand knowledge-based industry, improving theemployment prospects of an area affected by theloss of traditional industries.

The NWDA has worked with Chorley Borough Council and BAESystems and provided £1.3 million funding for the remediationof an 8.2 hectare parcel of the 54 hectare strategic regional site.

The remediation of this land has been instrumental in providinga suitable site for the relocation of Imperial Multipart (formerlyLEX Autologistics), safeguarding 200 jobs. Off-site highwaysimprovement works are nearing completion.


Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley

ROF Chorley


the research, development and commercialisation of ICT.Bringing together ICT experts and specialised ICT small andmedium-sized enterprises (SMEs), it will promote and acceleratetechnology transfer between university-based ICT research andthe local and regional industry.

The NWDA submitted an outline planning application for a9.7 hectare science park at the Bailrigg site in September 2005.The planning application is accompanied by an indicativemasterplan which shows a range of different sized units.Further information is now being assembled by the NWDA insupport of the application.


This greenfield site of 9.7 hectares (gross) is located adjacent toLancaster University and close to the village of Bailrigg on thesouthern edge of Lancaster. It has a substantial frontage anddirect access to the A6 and lies 5 km from Junction 33 on theM6. The site is adjacent to a major public transport route

identified as a Quality Bus Route in the Local Transport Plan. It isalso adjacent to a strategic cycleway linking the Universityand Lancaster.

The Lancaster District Local Plan (adopted April 2004) allocatesthe 9.7 hectare site for B1 business use under Policy EC1 withthe particular aim of attracting inward investment. TheReplacement Joint Lancashire Structure Plan (March 2005)identifies Bailrigg as a Regional Investment Site suitable forknowledge based industry due to its proximity toLancaster University.

A development brief has been prepared to guide the layout ofthe site, the form and design of buildings and the phasing ofdevelopment. Lancaster City Council formally adopted the briefas Supplementary Planning Guidance in April 2002. LancasterUniversity has expressed interest in the new developmentproposal and could play a key role in attracting tenants throughtheir acknowledged expertise in the field of computing,information and communications technology.

For the remainder of the strategic regional site, BAE Systems hasappointed a preferred developer, HelioSlough Ltd. of London.HelioSlough will remediate and develop the site in a number oftranches in line with the agreed B2 and B8 use classes. It isanticipated that the whole site will be developed by 2012.


The strategic regional site forms the south-eastern part of theformer Royal Ordnance Factory between Euxton, Chorley andLeyland. It lies between the M6 and M61 motorways, the nearestjunction being J8 on the M61, just less than 1 km to the southeast of the site, via a new link road off the A6. Further works areplanned to improve the slip roads on the M61 to deal withforecast levels of traffic to the site. The Preston-Manchesterrailway line runs immediately to the south of the site, with thenearest station being 3 km away at Chorley. According to theLTP a new railway station and park and ride will be includedwithin the site.

Of the 54 hectare site, approximately 29 hectares aredevelopable. The remainder of the ROF site covers a gross areaof 160 hectares and is being developed as an urban villageknown as ‘Buckshaw Village’. It is a brownfield site having beenpreviously used for the assembly and packaging of munitions.Although the ROF site as a whole straddles the boundarybetween the boroughs of Chorley and South Ribble, thestrategic regional site lies entirely within Chorley Borough.

Policy EM1A of the Chorley Borough Local Plan (adopted August2003) reserves the ROF site for strategic inward investment ofregional significance. The Borough Council has prepared adevelopment brief for the site to establish the design quality ofany new development. A related masterplan identifies six largeplots with a development area of 28.7 hectares, which can yieldup to 114,900 sq metres of floorspace.

The Replacement Joint Lancashire Structure Plan ProposedModifications (March 2005) identifies the Royal Ordnance siteas a Regional Investment Site for high quality genericmanufacturing uses and knowledge based industry.

BAE Systems have secured outline planning permission for thedevelopment of the whole ROF Chorley site for a mix of B2(General Industrial) and B8 (Storage and Distribution) uses. Thepermission includes a split of 40% B2 (General Industrial) and60% B8 (Warehousing) development and also includes fullpermission for the proposed 1.5 km Buckshaw Link Road. Thiswill facilitate the construction of a new junction from the A6Preston Road and will form the main service road for the wholeof the strategic regional site.

A planning application was submitted in May 2006 for a regionaldistribution centre for Wolseley UK Ltd, including warehouse/storage and ancillary offices. Reserved matters planningapplications for 9,821 sq metre and 18,353 sq metre buildingsfor B2 and B8 use were also submitted in May 2006. Theseapplications are currently being considered by ChorleyBorough Council.

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Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley


Vision and Progress

Development of Whitebirk is intended to provide the premier sitefor East Lancashire to reverse the poor image of industrialdecline by providing land for new high-quality businesses, toencourage inward investment and improve the employmentprospects for the area as a whole. The strategic regional site will:

• Act as a focus for high quality indigenous growth and inwardinvestment;

• Encourage the growth of knowledge based industry inBlackburn, Hyndburn and East Lancashire as a whole;

• Present a new image and provide quality jobs for thesub-region;

• Attract established sectors of chemicals, textiles, aerospace,mechanical and other engineering, energy, automotive, foodand drink, along with the growth target sectors ofenvironmental technologies, medical equipment andtechnology, financial and professional services and computersoftware and services; and

• Develop links with the aerospace industry in Lancashire.

In October 2003 the NWDA and the site owners jointlysubmitted an outline planning application to develop the site fora range of commercial uses, including a knowledge park,general industrial, storage and distribution uses and lightindustrial units, along with an ancillary zone comprising retailand catering. The site is being brought forward followingdiscussions with the Highways Agency to agree works toimprove traffic flows at Whitebirk roundabout, and details ofaccess and exit from the site. A scheme to signalise theroundabout will be implemented by March 2007.


The site lies on the eastern outskirts of Blackburn (although it isentirely within the Borough of Hyndburn) adjacent to Junction 6of the M65 motorway. The site is greenfield and covers an areaof 35 hectares (gross) of which an estimated 27 hectares (net)are developable. The A679 Blackburn Road runs to the south ofthe site. The Preston-Leeds cross-Pennine rail line lies to thenorth of the site. A proposed new station on this line atGreenbank Business Park (located 1 km to the north west of theWhitebirk site) will deliver improved rail access. The proposedEast Lancashire Rapid Transit system seeks to provide aradically improved public transport network for East Lancashirethrough a series of Quality Bus Partnerships. This has beenallocated for funding within the next three years through theRegional Funding Allocation process.

The majority of the site is allocated for B1, B2 and B8employment uses under Policy I.1(U) in the Borough ofHyndburn Local Plan (adopted November 1996). A developmentbrief has been prepared for the site.

The Replacement Joint Lancashire Structure Plan (March 2005)identifies Whitebirk as a Regional Investment Site for knowledgebased industry and/or high quality generic manufacturing uses.

Whitebirk

Whitebirk



Merseyside

LiverpoolUniversity Edge

Birkenhead/Twelve Quays

Kings Business Park, Knowsley

Parkside FormerColliery

Ditton, Widnes

Daresbury Park,Runcorn

Wirral InternationalBusiness Park

The Estuary, Liverpool(Speke Garston)

Wavertree Tecnology Park

M53

M62

M56

M6

M58

M57

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Vision and Progress

Development of Twelve Quays presents the opportunity to:

• Create a modern river terminal to serve the region;

• Provide a high quality, well planned scheme at a key gatewayto the region from Ireland;

• Accommodate strategic distribution development andmaximise the inter-modal potential of the site;

• Provide employment opportunities, including those forresidents in the local vicinity;

• Assist in facilitating the economic restructuring of partsof the Wirral;

• Accommodate businesses that will utilise the river terminal forthe transportation of passengers and freight;

• Accommodate the Maritime Centre of Excellence; and

• Enable the environmental quality and image of the site, one ofthe region’s major gateways, to be considerably upgraded.

In 2004 the Twelve Quays River Terminal was extended by anadditional 2.8 hectares and a new terminal managementprogramme was implemented to accommodate existingdemand and facilitate further growth. The £8.6 million SpaceportInternational Space and Exploration Centre opened in July 2005at the Seacombe Ferry Terminal.

Scantec are constructing a headquarters office building on a0.51 hectare site at Morpeth Wharf. Phase 2 of MaritimeBusiness Park is due for completion in September 2006.Gregor Shore have begun the conversion of two prominent listedbuildings along the East Float and have submitted a planningapplication for a further new build development on theadjacent land to the west. Planning permission for a seven-storey waterfront office block was granted at Kings Wharf inSeptember 2005.


The Twelve Quays site covers approximately 84 hectares and islocated on the A554 Tower Road immediately to the north ofBirkenhead town centre. Junction 1 of the M53 lies 3 km fromthe site via the A5139, giving access to Cheshire and the south.The Mersey tunnels provide access to Liverpool city centre.Birkenhead Hamilton Square station gives connection to the railnetwork. The Twelve Quays River Terminal, built by the MerseyDocks and Harbour Company, provides modern facilities for bothpassengers and freight. The port handles daily, Roll-on Roll-off(Ro-Ro) traffic from Belfast and Dublin.

The Wirral UDP (adopted February 2000) allocates 19.2 hectaresof land at Twelve Quays for B1, B2 and B8 uses under ProposalEM3. Approximately 10 hectares have already been developed,excluding the Ro-Ro ferry terminal. Approximately 6 hectares arecurrently available for development, outside the Dock Estate. Theland comprises 7 plots ranging from 0.8 to 1.5 hectares. Wirral’sCore Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD) Issues andOptions report is expected to be issued for consultation inearly 2007.

Twelve Quays, Birkenhead


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Vision and Progress

Development at Daresbury is intended to produce high quality,knowledge-based, flagship development to attract both inwardinvestors and indigenous businesses, and to grow new sciencebased businesses capitalising on Daresbury Laboratories,providing the opportunity to tackle high levels of deprivation inadjoining areas. The strategic regional site will:

• Build on the role of the Daresbury Laboratory complex as acentre for national research and encourage wider participationon the site by research universities;

• Accommodate the needs of knowledge based businesses,with particular emphasis on growth target sectors ofenvironmental technologies, life science industries(biotechnology and pharmaceuticals), medical equipment andtechnology and computer software and services;

• Form an essential ingredient of the partnership workingbetween the NWDA and the Council for the CentralLaboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) which will seekto exploit the major research facilities at Daresbury Laboratoryand promote and grow the subsequent commercialopportunities; and

• Provide for local employment needs within a high qualitybusiness park location, to assist in addressing the regionallysignificant deprivation problems in Halton and adjoining areas.

The majority of the Daresbury Business Park site has outlineplanning permission for offices and research and developmentuses. In December 2005, full planning permission was grantedfor an office village on the site. This comprises a range ofsmaller units with a total floorspace of 5,575 sq metres. The

Daresbury Business Park site is a private sector developmentbeing taken forward as a joint venture between Maple GroveDevelopments and the De Vere Group plc.

The NWDA is investing over £50 million to take forward thedevelopment of the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus.In partnership with the Council for the Central Laboratory of theResearch Councils (CCLRC), Halton Borough Council and theUniversities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster, the NWDAseeks to develop the Science and Innovation Campus as aworld-class research and commercial operation facility.

Daresbury Laboratory lies at the centre of the Science andInnovation Campus. Work has begun at the Laboratory complexon a prototype for the 4th Generation Light Source (4GLS)technology to develop the next generation of computers,medicines, and catalysts. In addition, Government hasconfirmed funding of the Synchrotron Radiation Source atDaresbury until December 2008.

The NWDA has facilitated the development of two high qualityunits which are acting as a catalyst to the development of theScience and Innovation Campus. One of the units provides apurpose-built facility for the Cockcroft Institute, an internationalcentre for research and development in accelerator science andtechnology. The £27 million facility will provide a base for over100 scientists and engineers. The other unit has beenestablished as the Daresbury Innovation Centre and provides2,230 sq metres of business space for companies within thesector, including Medical Device Innovations Ltd, Auralis, andInstrument Design Technology Ltd.


Daresbury Park





The Daresbury Park strategic regional site comprises the existingDaresbury Business Park together with the DaresburyInternational Science and Innovation Campus, incorporating theDaresbury Laboratory complex. The Business Park is accesseddirectly via Junction 11 of the M56 and the Science andInnovation Campus is located off the A558 DaresburyExpressway close to its junction with the A56. Both aregreenfield sites. Improvements are proposed to the roundaboutjunction of the A56/ Eastern Expressway to increase capacity,together with a widening of the single carriageway betweenDaresbury Science Park roundabout and the M56 to dualcarriageway. Over half of this funding will come from developercontributions and the remainder from the LTP. Existing occupierson the Daresbury Park site include the corporate headquartersof BNFL, ABB and the De Vere Group.

Daresbury Park and Daresbury Laboratory are identified as sitesfor regional investment under Policy S20 of the Halton UDP(adopted March 2005).

(i) Daresbury ParkPolicy E1 of the Halton UDP allocates three sites (sites 240/0,240/7 and 241 as shown on the UDP proposals map) adjoiningthe existing Daresbury Business Park for employment growthtarget sectors. These sites provide 42 hectares of land inaddition to the 9 hectares which have now been developed.

Policy TP4 anticipates and safeguards the development of a newstation on the West Coast Main Line to serve Daresbury and thenearby East Runcorn Development Area. Currently the neareststation is Runcorn East on the Chester-Warrington Line. PolicyTP4 safeguards the development of a new station at Red BrowLane to the west of the Daresbury Park site.

(ii) Daresbury LaboratoryPolicy E1 of the Halton UDP allocates four sites (refs 225, 246,247 and 250 on the Proposals Map) for employment growthtarget sectors adjacent to the boundary of the DaresburyLaboratory complex. These sites cover a total area of 13.6hectares and together with the Laboratory complex comprisethe Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus.


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Vision and Progress

Development of Ditton is intended to create a modernintermodal exchange, logistics and strategic rail freight facility toserve, in particular, the needs of Merseyside, North Wales andthe Cheshire sub-region, with potential links to Liverpool Airportand Port of Liverpool. The strategic regional site will:

• Accommodate strategic distribution development;

• Accommodate businesses that will utilise the railway for thetransportation of freight; and

• Provide a significant number of jobs for local people.

A private sector led consortium is developing proposals for theDitton Strategic Rail Freight Park (DSRFP). This will build on thepotential of two existing rail-freight businesses (WidnesIntermodal Rail Depot and Widnes International Freight Terminal).

A masterplan has been commissioned by Halton BoroughCouncil to set the context for the site’s subsequentdevelopment. Parts of the site will require extensive groundinvestigation and clean-up in view of the Borough’s extensivehistory of industrial contamination.

Halton Borough Council has recently launched new branding forthe Freight Park – “3MG” – The Mersey Modal Gateway, andproduced a publicity brochure.


The site comprises some 183 hectares of land on the westernside of Widnes between Hale Bank and the A562 Speke Roadat Ditton. The site’s core (70 hectares) lies to the south of theLiverpool branch of the West Coast Main Line. The site is servedby the freight-only line to Arpley, Warrington which servesFiddlers Ferry power station. The A5300 gives direct access toJunction 6 of the M62, located 6 km to the north of the site. TheMersey Gateway Scheme would improve road access to the sitefrom Cheshire and the south. This has been allocated fundingbetween 2009/10 and 2015/16 in the Regional FundingAllocation process.

DSRFP is identified under Policy S20 of the Halton UDP (adoptedMarch 2005). The core area comprises three parcels of landidentified for regional investment under Policies E1 and E7 plusadjacent areas already in employment use. The UDP envisagesa phased development of 200,000 sq metres of rail servedbuildings, potentially rising to 400,000 sq metres.

The full extent of DSRFP as defined in the UDP stretches toinclude a greenfield site to the west of Site 253 and connectingto the A562/A5300 roundabout, land to the north of the railwayline up to the A562 including Ditton Road Estate, existingderelict industrial premises known as the Eddarbridge site to thewest of the A533 Queensway, and a remediated site at theconfluence of the Ditton Brook and Steward’s Brook. Halton’sUDP policy envisages a phased development of 200,000 sqmetres of rail-served distribution buildings, potentially rising upto 400,000 sq metres, including 800 metre sidings and anexpanded inter-modal terminal.

In March 2005 an application for full planning permission wassubmitted for the Strategic Rail Freight Park by DrawbridgeSecurities (Ditton) Ltd and AHC (Warehousing) Ltd. The proposalinvolves the development of 78,308 sq m of new distributionwarehousing with associated road and rail accessimprovements.

A Draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the DSRFPwas issued for public consultation in late 2005. Halton BoroughCouncil has yet to formally approve this SPD.

Ditton, Widnes

Ditton


Vision and Progress

Development of Kings Business Park presents the opportunity tocreate a high quality employment site in Merseyside primarily forthe knowledge-based industries growth target sectors. Thestrategic regional site will:

• Facilitate attraction of high quality businesses to a boroughwhich is under represented in the target growth sector ofknowledge based industries; and

• Attract growth target sectors of environmental technologies,life science industries, medical equipment and technology,financial and professional services, tourism, computersoftware and services, and creative industries.

Funding support from the NWDA facilitated the development ofa 3,525 sq metre B1 office development on Kings Business Parkwhich was occupied by Vertex in 2003 creating more than 200new jobs.

In July 2004, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) opened anew office development on the business park with support fromthe NWDA. CSC is a leading global information technologyservices company.


Kings Business Park extends to 20 hectares gross of whichapproximately 3 hectares remains undeveloped. The remainderwill be given over to formal landscaping and retained maturelandscaping. The site is located between Huyton and Prescot,approximately 8 km to the east of Liverpool City Centre. Thebusiness park is accessed from Junction 2 of the M57, and hasan 800 metre frontage along its northern boundary onto the A57Liverpool Road.

Kings Business Park is identified as a strategic employment sitefor industrial and commercial development under Policy EC2(site ref. B29) of the Knowsley UDP, adopted in 1998. The sitelies within the Green Belt and the intention is that this willpreserve the quality environment that existed in its former useas a training college. The Knowsley UDP Revised DraftReplacement Plan (November 2004) allocates the 9 remainingdevelopable hectares of Kings Business Park including B1 andB2 uses under Policy EC5.

The Revised Draft Replacement UDP also states that outlineplanning permission for the above uses has already beengranted and that future detailed planning applications for thedevelopment of the site for the above uses will be approvedprovided that they meet certain conditions.

All site infrastructure works are now complete, including thebalancing lake. In January 2005 full planning permission wasgranted for 14 two storey office buildings which will create 9,632sq metre of floorspace (gross).

Kings Business Park, Knowsley


KingsBusiness Park


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Vision and Progress

Development of Liverpool Science Park (Edge Lane) is intendedto present a key opportunity to support the regeneration ofLiverpool by capitalising on the success of knowledge basedindustry at the existing technology park. The strategic regionalsite will:

• Build on the already existing cluster of high tech andinformation technology business activity, including the growthtarget sectors with special emphasis on digital industries,forming a key component of Liverpool Digital;

• Address the current deprivation, unemployment and lack ofopportunity suffered in the area surrounding the site;

• Create more direct and indirect job opportunities for peoplebenefiting from education and training initiatives in theadjacent Kensington New Deal Area through the provision of arange of job opportunities covering all skill levels; and

• Enable the environmental quality and image ofEdge Lane, one of Liverpool’s major gateways, to beconsiderably upgraded.

In 2002-2003 the NWDA acquired the former MTL site, theadjoining Marconi site, and land to the west of the MTL sitethat was previously owned and operated by Littlewoods andJCM Media. Land remediation on the former MTL site isnow complete.

In relation to the former Littlewoods site, Liverpool LandDevelopment Company has appointed developer Urban Splashas preferred developer. Urban Splash’s plans for the former

Littlewoods Building include apartments, a hotel element andcommercial and speciality retail space.

The NWDA has been working with partners to develop theLiverpool Digital concept which will form a centre of excellencefor the information and communications technology sector. InJanuary 2005 the NWDA announced funding of £3.9 million tosupport the relocation and expansion of Liverpool John MooresUniversity’s International Centre of Digital Content to theLiverpool Digital site. The facility will provide a focus of expertisein the development of new technologies for digital content, andrelated incubator facilities. In February 2005, Connect InternetSolutions was established as the first tenant of Liverpool Digital.Connect delivers web-based solutions for both public and

Liverpool Science Park (Edge Lane)

Liverpool Science Park(Edge Lane)


Liverpool Science Park (Edge Lane)

private sector organisations and will be opening a businessdevelopment centre to provide distance learning andcommercial training courses. First phase refurbishment spacehas also been pre-let to Marconi Selenia.


Liverpool Science Park (Edge Lane) is located approximately3 km to the east of Liverpool City Centre on the A5080 EdgeLane (which forms the main approach into the city centre fromthe M62).

The strategic regional site designation applies to the existing25 hectare Wavertree Technology Park, expansion land to theeast (10 hectares) and to the south (14 hectares), the formerMarconi site (9 hectares), the former MTL site (6 hectares) andthe former Littlewoods site (3 hectares).

The Liverpool Science Park (Edge Lane) development will bringtogether the Liverpool Digital (former Marconi) site, the formerMTL site and part of the existing Wavertree Technology Park. TheTechnology Park is an established business location and hasattracted investment from Sony Computer Entertainment

Europe, Marconi, Barclaycard, Ultramedic Ltd, OTIS and theMando Group.

The site forms a principal component of the Eastern ApproachesStrategic Investment Area (SIA), one of four priority investmentareas established by the 2000-2006 European RegionalDevelopment Fund (ERDF) Objective 1 programme, the keyphysical infrastructure elements of which are being takenforward by Liverpool Land Development Company (LLDC). Thesite will directly benefit from the £65 million Eastern Gatewayproject which is being co-ordinated by LLDC. The schemeincludes a comprehensive programme of environmental andhighway improvements to the strategic Edge Lane corridorrunning from the M62 to Hall Lane and the city centre. The EdgeLane/ Eastern Approaches Scheme has been allocated forfunding within the next three years through the RegionalFunding Allocations process.

Policy E1 in the adopted Liverpool UDP identifies the existingWavertree Technology Park as a primarily industrial area suitablefor use classes B1, B2 and B8. The former MTL and Littlewoodssites are allocated for industrial and business developmentunder the same policy.

Vision and Progress

The vision is to create a new knowledge community, fusinghigher education, research, knowledge related industry, universityrelated spin out, academic entrepreneurs and quality city centreliving. The area will become a new regional focus for knowledgerelated jobs and people and a growth pole for transmittingknowledge into the wider economy. It will have a supportiverelationship with the growth and development of the twoUniversities and the teaching hospital, and become the focus fora range of resource bids. The strategic regional site will:

• Transform the quality of the urban environment, encouragingquality design and restoring pedestrian linkages to the rest ofthe city centre;

• Foster the growth of university and NHS teaching hospitalresearch functions;

• Stimulate the growth of university/business linkages,especially in new incubator facilities;

• Attract complementary high level research, private sector andgovernment research activity;

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Liverpool UniversityEdge


• Encourage the development of quality new residentialaccommodation;

• Improve its pedestrian connectivity to Lime Street Station andthe regional rail network to the west, alongside its highwayinfrastructure and connectivity to the east;

• Become a confident new city centre gateway, especially tothe east; and

• Be supported by skills and innovation programmes relating toincubators, spin-out graduate enterprise, graduate retentionand attracting world-class researchers.

Bidwells Science Innovations, the company managing theCambridge Science Park, were appointed in July 2003 tomanage the Liverpool Science Park venture. Liverpool SciencePark is a collaborative venture between Liverpool John MooresUniversity, the University of Liverpool and Liverpool City Council.It has established a successful new business location foruniversity related spin out activity, particularly in relation to thecreative industries and environment/biotechnology sectors. It isbeing developed as a “distributed” science park with keyelements on the Liverpool University Edge site and the LiverpoolScience Park (Edge Lane) site.

Within the Liverpool University Edge strategic regional site theNWDA supported the development of a site adjacent to theMetropolitan Cathedral, now operating as Liverpool Science ParkPhase 1 Innovation Centre. This £10.6 million developmentprovides 4,065 sq metres of accommodation for companiesinvolved in scientific research and knowledge based industries.A second phase is planned to deliver a further 3,723 sq metresof grow-out space.

Liverpool John Moores University was granted planningpermission in February 2006 to develop a new £20.75 million

Academy for its School of Art and Design. The Academy will bea signature building developed on a prestige location next tothe Metropolitan Cathedral and Liverpool Science Park. It iscurrently under construction and is scheduled to open in 2008.

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has developedproposals for a 7,000 sq metre £25 million extension toaccommodate research and development/consultancy activitiesadjacent to its existing site. The new research facility, will doubleits size and make it one of the world’s leading institutionsdedicated to developing treatments for infectious and tropicaldiseases. The Merseyside Objective One programme and theNWDA are each investing £9 million in the project. The schemehas commenced and is due for completion in 2007. A secondphase to accommodate commercial and business spin outspace is being planned.


The Liverpool University Edge site consists of the area aroundthe main campus of the University of Liverpool and LiverpoolJohn Moores University. It includes parts of the campus areawith significant regeneration potential. The southern boundaryruns along Mount Pleasant and Oxford Street, whilst the northernboundary extends to Prescot Street and includes the RoyalLiverpool University Teaching Hospital.

The city centre location ensures that the strategic regional site ishighly accessible by a range of transport modes. The Edge Laneroad scheme, which is allocated for funding from the RegionalFunding Allocation programme within the next three years, willimprove road access from the M62 motorway into the city centreand the Liverpool University Edge site.

Because of its location adjacent to the Universities, the TeachingHospital and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the siteprovides an opportunity for creative clusters and university-related spin-out. The proximity to the main line rail station atLime Street together with the Cultural Quarter and main retailarea adds to its potential.

Policy E6 of the adopted Liverpool UDP (adopted 2002)identifies the central areas around Lime Street and theuniversities as suitable for mixed-use development.

It is anticipated that the identification of the Liverpool UniversityEdge site will be taken forward in the preparation of the LocalDevelopment Framework. Liverpool Vision has now updated avision and projects review for the wider Brownlow Hill area.

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Vision and Progress

Development of Parkside is intended to create a modern inter-modal exchange, logistics and rail freight facility to serve, inparticular the needs of Lancashire, the Mid-Mersey area andparts of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire. Thestrategic regional site will:

• Accommodate strategic distribution development;

• Accommodate businesses that will utilise the railway for thetransportation of freight; and

• Provide a significant number of jobs for local people.

The NWDA formally designated Parkside as a strategicregional site in 2001. In response to the St Helens UDP IssuesPaper, the NWDA suggested that the plan should include apolicy identifying the site for development as an intermodalfreight terminal.


The former Parkside Colliery lies on the eastern edge ofNewton-le-Willows, approximately 10 km east of St Helens and6 km north of Warrington. The site covers 107 hectares of whichapproximately 50% is brownfield. It mostly comprises the site ofthe former colliery, the buildings and infrastructure having beenremoved to leave a surface layer of concrete hardstanding.

The site lies within the Green Belt as defined in the adopted StHelens UDP (July 1998). The UDP, however, refers to it as a ‘Siteof Possible Change’ and notes that the Council had previouslybut unsuccessfully sought to remove 34 hectares from thegreen belt and allocate it for industrial use.

In 2001 St Helens Council produced an Issues Report forconsultation. It was decided in 2002 to abandon the review ofthe UDP and proceed with the preparation of a LocalDevelopment Framework, which will replace the UDP.

The site provides an opportunity to concentrate developmentwith direct rail access as a result of its strategic location on theWest Coast Main Line and Trans-Pennine rail routes, adjacent tothe M6 and close to the M62. The Regional Freight Strategy(RFS), published by the North West Freight Advisory Group inNovember 2003, recognises that to cater for anticipated growth,a number of inter-modal terminals, rail-linked warehouses anddistribution centres need to be developed at key locationsaround the region.

Railtrack submitted a hybrid planning application (i.e. partdetailed, part outline) to St Helens and Warrington BoroughCouncils for a rail freight distribution facility in August 2001.Railtrack however subsequently disposed of the site and theapplication was not progressed. The new site owner, AstralDevelopments, is currently preparing a planning application forthe site, and it is anticipated this will be submitted later in 2006.


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Vision and Progress

The Estuary Business Park presents the opportunity to create ahigh quality business park on a prominent site within southLiverpool to support urban renaissance objectives within aRegeneration Priority Area. The strategic regional site will:

• Act as a regional flagship to inward investment;

• Accommodate new development in knowledge basedindustries, with particular emphasis on the life scienceindustries (biotechnology and pharmaceuticals) and theestablished sector of aerospace;

• Provide space for growing indigenous companies who wishto expand in a quality environment as well as inwardinvestment; and

• Capitalise on the proximity of Liverpool Airport and the goodaccess to the road and rail communications networks.

Construction of the National Biomanufacturing Centre is nowcomplete, supported through a £19 million funding contributionfrom the NWDA. The centre will strengthen the existingbiosciences cluster in Speke. It was leased to a private sectoroperator, Eden Biodesign, who will provide bespoke services tocompanies and institutions wishing to developbiopharmaceutical products. The 4,100 sq metre facility includeslaboratories, offices, pilot plants and production facilities. Fullmanufacturing operation is expected by the end of 2006.

Phase 1 of Estuary Commerce Park, which extends to 41hectares gross (32 hectares net developable), is currently underconstruction by Liverpool Land Development Company. Outlineplanning permission has been secured for the development ofPhase 2 which has now been rebranded by its owner, PeelHoldings, as Liverpool International Business Park.

In July 2004, arvato AG confirmed that a key site on LiverpoolInternational Business Park (Estuary Phase 2) would be the

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The Estuary, Liverpool


location for its new state-of-the-art gravure printing facility. arvatoAG, now known as Prinovis, has invested over£115 million in the 46,000 sq metre development. Constructionof the facility has now been completed, and the plant isexpected to be fully operational in early 2008. It is envisagedthat the development will employ up to 1,000 people.

UK Land and Property has recently reached practical completionon Phase 1 of the Business Village at Estuary, which includes B1office buildings. Construction of Phase 2 is due to commenceshortly, to provide further B1 office accommodation.


Estuary Commerce Park is on the site of the former SpekeAirport. It is located on the north bank of the Mersey 10 kmsouth of Liverpool city centre between Garston and Speke. Thesite forms a key component of the Speke Halewood StrategicInvestment Area, one of four priority investment areasestablished by the 2000-2006 ERDF Objective 1 programme,the key physical infrastructure elements of which are beingtaken forward by Liverpool Land Development Company.Existing occupiers include Capital Bank (subsidiary of HalifaxBank of Scotland), Powder Systems Ltd, DHL International,Classic Couverture and The Riverside Group.

From Liverpool, access is via the A561 Speke Road. Motorwayaccess is from the M62/M57 interchange 12 km away and theA5300/A561. Liverpool John Lennon Airport is immediatelyto the east of the business park. Liverpool South Parkway,a major bus and rail interchange, located 1.5 km from thebusiness park has a direct shuttle bus service to LiverpoolJohn Lennon Airport.

The 112.7 hectare site is allocated for industrial/businessdevelopment (use classes B1, B2 and B8) under Policy E1 of theLiverpool UDP, adopted in November 2002. Outline planningpermission was granted in 1997 for B1, B2 and B8 uses.

A planning application was submitted in February 2006 for 11units for B2 (general industrial) and B8 (warehousing) uses withAncillary B1 (office) uses on plot 7A of the business park. Inaddition an application was submitted in March 2006 for 14office buildings on plots 6B and C. Planning permission wasgranted for a printwork factory at the business park in May 2006.Planning permission was granted in January 2006 for a partsingle/part two storey industrial building at plot 6000, EstuaryCommerce Park. The site is now being developed by UK Landand Property as a printing facility for Communisis.

Vision and Progress

Wirral International Business Park is Wirral’s largest andpotentially highest quality business location with good publiclinks to areas of severe regeneration need. It presents theopportunity to:

• Act as a focus for inward investment and indigenous growth;

• Accommodate generic manufacturing; and

• Make some provision for knowledge based industry in animproved environmental setting, relating to the adjacentMersey Riverfront and Country Park.

The NWDA along with its partners has continued to bringforward a number of sites for reclamation. Consultants havecompleted a masterplanning exercise for the business park.

Wirral International Business Park


The NWDA has enabled a national developer to acquire animportant gateway site for redevelopment and has agreedfunding towards the 13,000 sq metre landmark development atthe southern entrance to the business park. Construction of thescheme was completed in Spring 2005, provides office andhigh-tech industrial space on a 2.9 hectare site. Priority Siteshave completed Phase 2 of the Plantation Business Park atStadium Road (3.4 hectares) and have now begun theconstruction of 10 industrial units at Martindale Road.

Industrial development at Ferry View, Coliseum Business Parkand the first phase of the office development at Riverside Parkare scheduled for completion in Autumn 2006. Additional land atthe former MOD Tank Farm (8.05 hectares) is being reclaimedfor development by Wirral Borough Council.

Construction of a new road that will reduce traffic congestion inand around Wirral International Business Park has now beencompleted. The new access route will considerably improve theconnectivity of the park. The extension of Caldbeck Road toconnect to Stadium Road, will link the retail and industrialsection – known as Croft Business Park, with the easternemployment section. The scheme has beendelivered by the NWDA in partnership with Wirral MetropolitanBorough Council.


Wirral International Business Park is an established businesspark located on the west bank of the Mersey Estuaryapproximately 6.5 km south of Birkenhead. Liverpool city centreand Liverpool John Lennon Airport are 11 km and 22 km awayrespectively. From the south the site is accessed via Junction 5on the M53. From Liverpool and the north it is accessed via theMersey Tunnel (Queensway) and the A41.

The site covers an area of 334 hectares, of which approximately50 hectares remain undeveloped. Only 21 hectares are currentlysuitable for immediate development. It is largely a brownfieldsite, with previous uses including two power stations, oil storageand chemical works. The undeveloped land comprises 19 plotsranging from 0.2 hectares to 9.6 hectares. Some sites willrequire further decontamination or infrastructure provision, if theyare to be brought forward for development.

The site is designated as a Primarily Industrial Area under PolicyEM8 of the adopted Wirral UDP (February 2000) and 39.3hectares are allocated for B1, B2 and B8 development underProposal EM3. Approximately 25 hectares of this land hasalready been developed plus an additional 10 hectares at othersites within the business park.

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Strategic Regional SitesAshton Moss, TamesideBasford, CreweCPreston/Leyland

uerden Regional Business Park,

Daresbury Park, HaltonKingmoor, CarlisleKings Business Park, KnowsleyKingsway, RochdaleOmega South,WarringtonRoyal Ordnance Factory, ChorleyThe Estuary, Speke/GarstonWirral International Business ParkBarton, SalfordTwelve Quays, BirkenheadWhitebirk, LancashireCarrington, TraffordChester Business ParkDavenport Green, TraffordDitton, WidnesLancaster University/BailriggLiverpool University EdgeCentral Park, ManchesterParkside Former Colliery, St HelensLiverpool Science Park (Edge Lane)Westlakes, WhitehavenAlderley Park (AstraZeneca), Macclesfield

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