A distribution building has been proposed at the Whippingham Technology Park, joining the Isle of Wight College’s CECAMM centre and Certas Energy fuel depot.
The application has been submitted by Chartwood Holdings Pension Scheme, based in West Sussex, although some plans have been devised for company Isle of Wight Distribution. It forms part of a larger development proposed for the site next to GKN, with the first phase building a smaller distribution centre on the remaining part of the park.
The 1st phase, which is also proposed by the same applicant, has yet to be submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. If both applications go ahead all plots of the technology park would be full.
The building in phase 2 could be 1,680m² and have 24 distribution bays. It could create 200 jobs according to documents submitted to the Isle of Wight Council by the Planning and Development Hub.
The planning agents say that as the company behind the proposal grows and demand increases from online shopping, the jobs would have ‘generally higher value salaries’ than the Island’s average. The development represents an important opportunity for investment and economic regeneration, it adds.
Under the outline permission, the scale and access for the site are proposed. The Planning Hub argue the proposals already have planning permission, given the consent granted in 2011. When the technology park was first developed, outline permission was granted to construct nearly 17,000m² of business, office, storage, distribution and warehouse space.
It is said 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. Traffic movements from the site would include four 40ft lorries and 32 vans.
The lorries would arrive via Red Funnel in the morning and then leave at staggered times back to the mainland. The vans would leave the site in the morning and return in the afternoon.
You can view the plans, 22/02293/OUT, on the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until 5th June.
Jobs? For all those on tax credits or universal credits that will bring a chill to the bones.
Used to getting up when they want, doing what they want and claiming everything from free rent and c.tax to a disability or two for the hoards of children or themselves, with each disability not ‘apparent’ when drunk, drugged or creating the next clone to burden society with.
All state paid benefits including disability payments, carers allowance etc should be limited to less than the lowest paid full time worker, otherwise it make a mockery of those who do ‘bother’ to work for a living.
I do appreciate your sentiments. !
Seriously it is a good opportunity. More jobs are needed. They do need to be paid fairly with good working conditions however.
The Council should wave this one through as it has no downsides.
They need to spend time looking again at the two massive housing developments in Ryde. They are far from being free of downsides
Very telling how quickly the West Park environmental crime article dropped from the headlines. Those envelopes are very wide ranging ?
No wonder we spend so much on heart problems here on the island everybody is so depressed and angry about things they can’t change.
Get on with it, jobs needed ( especially high unemployment in ECowes and public always complaining about delivery times of packages from online ,why restricted to just 4x40ft lorries – many many travel that road from Redfunell – not like it’s a poor road. What would happen to current Island Distribution center at Arreton?.
What do we know about the company proposing this build? Too often companies propose something then change the whole dynamics of the initial request.