Local developer Westcountry Enterprises has submitted a planning application to build a £250m business park and cinema scheme near Plymouth in a move which will stoke up the leisure battle in the region.
Westcountry is looking to develop some 114,000 sq m (1.2m sq ft) of office and industrial space and 34,000 sq m (365,000 sq ft) of leisure and retail accommodation on the site which is close to the A38. The scheme, called Broadmoor Park, will include a 15 screen multiplex cinema.
Broadmoor will be in direct competition with the Coxside scheme, where Citygrove is proposing a multiplex. Developer ASM is also looking to build a cinema close to the city centre.
“One site is in the city centre and we will be catering for a wider audience than the Coxside scheme,” said Murdo Mace, development director at Westcountry. The first phase of the development will feature a factory outlet village, leisure and the multiplex cinema.
Broadmoor Park’s masterplan realigns the A388 through the site which is possible following improvements to the A38 and involves the construction of a bypass around the neighbouring village of Carkeel.
Mace added that the first phase will generate the £18m needed to complete the original infrastructure work. “We are producing a major inward investment site for the South West that is fully serviced,” he said.
DTZ Debenham Thorpe is marketing the scheme. Architects Holder Mathias Alcock are planning consultants on the development.
EGi News 27/08/97
