Huw Morris,
PlanningResource,
9 February 2010
Hartlepool Borough Council has approved plans for a 280,000 square metre office, industrial and warehouse development at Wynyard, near Teesside.
The site also has planning approval for a £464 million hospital to serve Hartlepool, Stockton and parts of east Durham and Sedgefield.
The scheme is part of Wynyard Park Ltd’s 283ha site, some of which was partly developed by Samsung, which left the area in the early 2000s with the loss of 450 jobs.
The present owners took the abandoned site and have continued to develop it, creating more than 1,000 jobs since 2005.
Outline planning permission for development of the west of the site was first granted in the 1980s and renewed in the 1990s. The latest masterplan has been designed so that the hospital can slot into the centre of the site as and when necessary.
Hartlepool Borough Council’s approval of the intended infrastructure, including internal road layouts, drainage and landscaping, means development of the new masterplan for the land can go ahead.
"Wynyard started in the 1980s as a business park to complement the arrival of Samsung, but the larger part of the site wasn’t developed and the permission lay dormant for a number of years," said Prism Planning consultant Steve Barker, which advised on the scheme.
"We have worked with Wynyard Park Ltd for a couple of years towards securing this permission. We are delighted that this successful outcome means that the development can go ahead."
huw.morris@haymarket.com
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