Business Park Development

Location

Land at Hawkeridge, Westbury.

Status: Current development.

Size: 35 acres.

Challenge

• Site acquired with agricultural use
• Location identified by Wiltshire Council as strategic employment site.
• Potential employment role for Trowbridge and Westbury travel to work area.

Strategy

• Appointment of full consultant team including planning advisers. 
• Land promoted through Core Strategy process.
• Baseline Environmental Assessment.
• Ecology and nature conservation review.
• Highways and transportation analysis.
• Archaeological surveys.
• Hydrology and floodplain analysis.

Outcome

• Outline planning consent granted July 2014.
• Roundabout and foul pumping station infrastructure work completed October 2016.
• "Build to suit" and serviced plots now available.
• Detailed consent for units of 8,10,16 & 36,000 sq ft (Merlin).
• Detailed consent for drive-thru - A3/A5 use (Roadside).
• Detailed consent for 50,000 sq ft in small units of 1-5,000 sq ft (Kestrel Court).
• see hawke-ridge.com.