Wolverhampton Business Park site set to benefit from streamlined development
Efforts to bring new jobs and businesses to Wolverhampton have taken a major step forward after the council issued the first streamlined planning order for one of the city's business parks.
The moves makes it quicker and easier to secure planning permission for new offices on the Wolverhampton Business Park, part of the Black Country Enterprise Zone.
The new Local Development Orders are part of a raft of measures intended to make sites in the enterprise zone more attractive to new companies.
The first LDO issued by Wolverhampton Council will make it much easier to develop up to 168,455 sq ft of new office buildings on the site, off Stafford Road and beside Junction 1 of the M54.
The order applies to an undeveloped 7.5 acre plot of land on the business park.
Part of the Black Country Enterprise Zone, Wolverhampton Business Park is a 30 acre site with a masterplan allowing for the development of up to 450,000 sq ft of business accommodation.
Wolverhampton Business Park is being delivered by developer Broadlands Wolverhampton, a joint venture partnership between B&R Properties and Peveril Securities.
Jonathan Rogers, of Broadlands Wolverhampton, said: "The grant of this LDO, combined with our status as part of the Enterprise Zone, means that Wolverhampton Business Park can now offer probably the most streamlined development process in the Midlands.
"With planning consent already secured for new buildings of around 170,000 sq ft, we are ready to put spades into the ground and begin development as soon as we have secured a pre-let."
