Hundreds of jobs could be created on the Isle of Wight as the 2nd part of a major delivery depot development has been unveiled.
Due to the rise in online shopping, plans have been submitted to build a warehouse and parcel collection centre at Whippingham Technology Park, opposite the Isle of Wight College’s Centre of Excellence for Composites, Advanced Manufacturing and Marine (CECAMM).
Proposals have been submitted by a West Sussex pension scheme, Chartwood Holdings, although some plans have been devised for company, Logistics 4U.
Island Echo understands that the depot will house Acclaim Logistics and Isle of Wight Distribution.
As previously reported by Island Echo, in April this year plans for a larger warehouse at the back of the technology park next to Certas Energy were submitted to the Isle of Wight Council, but have yet to be determined.
The new plans, recently submitted, could see a smaller warehouse also built at the technology park, with 21 parking bays for lorries. Between the 2 units, 200 full-time jobs would be created in the delivery business.
It would have a parcel collection area for customers on the ground floor and offices and a boardroom on the top floor.
Permission was granted in 2017 for a warehouse opposite CECAMM but the proposals have now changed to take account of current market requirements and business growth, planning documents say.
The Planning and Development Hub says the proposals represent an important opportunity for investment and economic regeneration.
The plans say the technology park has been designed and laid out to accommodate commercial levels of traffic and the potential increase in traffic has already been accounted for.
During the day, it is proposed 4x 40ft lorries will come and go from the site, as well as 32 vans, leaving at different times of the day.
If both applications go ahead all plots of the technology park would be full.
You can view the plans, 22/02284/FUL, on the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee website. Comments can be submitted until 17th November.
So lots of technology companies on the Technology Park
Good to see all this technology going into the Technology Park. And all reinforcing RF’s stranglehold on East Cowes.
Possibility of more low skilled jobs on minimum wage. Put out the bunting!
Most employers are crying out for staff but can’t find them because, for a lot of the shirkers, their benefits outweigh or are close to what they would get if employed. Therefore this will, sadly, be a “white elephant.”
Really hilarious that there are, literally, thousands of migrants who would jump at the chance of work, but the Government won’t let them.
“NEW” jobs? So Acclaim and IOW Dist. will retain their existing premises? Erm, I think not.
With the demise of Steve Porter they’ve probably picked up new accounts and want sites of their own!.
Same proposal as the first one just split between two sites.