Plans for a stalled 1.5m sq ft business park in Derby have been re-ignited following the promise of a chunk of the county’s £40m regional growth fund cash.
The money will be used to build a relief road linking the A50 to the 10-acre site at Chellaston, next to Rolls-Royce’s main Derby campus on Wilmore Road – effectively unlocking mixed-use development at the site.
A consortium of land owners and developers comprising preferred developers and landowners Miller Birch and Wilson Bowden, along with major landowner Rolls-Royce, Derby city council and local estate owner Harpur Crewe, are behind the project, which will provide distribution, office, leisure and health and fitness space. It is being designed by Stephen George & Partners.
Known locally as the Global Technology Cluster, the aim is to co-locate companies that feed into the Rolls-Royce operation, such as research, development and manufacturing businesses, creating a critical mass in the city. The final funding amount is yet to be confirmed.
Work is due to start on site by the end of 2012 with completion by 2014.
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