Plans for an aviation business park will go on show at Norwich International Airport next month.
Norwich public to get say over airport business park plan which could create 1,000 new jobs
Dan Grimmer
Monday, October 29, 2012
6:30 AM
Plans which would see a specialist aviation business park built at Norwich International airport are set to be lodged with the city council within months.
Bosses at the airport revealed in July that they were teaming up with Cambridge-based commercial property specialists Wrenbridge to create a business park with up to 100,000 square metre of floorspace, which they say could create 1,000 new jobs within a decade.
If plans get the go-ahead. the park will be developed on 100 acres of land to the north-east of the main runway with the first phase led by Norwich-based firm Air Livery, which currently has its headquarters on Liberator Road.
And airport bosses have revealed that they intend to apply for planning permission this winter, with a two-day public exhibition organised for next month.
People are invited to visit the exhibition, in the arrivals area at the airport’s main terminal area, to view and discuss the plans.
Members of the project team will be on hand to answer questions about the proposals.
The exhibition will run between 2pm and 8.30pm on Tuesday, November 20 and from 9.30am until 2pm the following day.
There will be directions from the short stay car park at the airport and parking tickets can be validated at the exhibition so visitors to it can park for free.
The plans centre around an initial investment of between £3m and £4m to create a link road into the site from the A140 Cromer roundabout near Horsford, along the former taxiway to the north east corner of the airport, and to fit the necessary infrastructure such as electricity, though it will also link to the proposed Norwich northern distributor road.
It has been made possible after land was released to the airport by Norfolk County Council and Norwich City Council.
When the plans were first revealed in the summer, Andrew Bell, chief executive at Norwich International airport, said: “This announcement marks another positive step forward for the airport and further demonstrates the key role it plays as a driver of direct and indirect employment and economic growth in the region.”
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11 comments
The small print says a thousand jobs within a decade...how many are going to be lost between those 10 long years???
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nrg
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A business park? There are units empty all around the county, especially around the Norwich area. Businesses are going to the wall on regular basis. Just what planet do these people live on? It's certainly not named reality, is it?
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Joe Mullets Uncle
Monday, October 29, 2012
If it gives 50 unemployed people work then its worth while.
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Tone the moan
Monday, October 29, 2012
It we took any notice of all this hype we hear, we would be experiencing full employment in Norfolk by now.
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John L Norton
Monday, October 29, 2012
This could help with financing the NDR which it will require. Let's see 100,000 sq metre @ £10 per sq metre = £1,000,000 – @ £10 per sq metre = £10,000,000 and so on. Nice little earner!
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Joe Rome
Monday, October 29, 2012
Actually, 1000 new jobs on that site is plausible. Far more plausible than the jobs quoted for a new supermarket for example. But what on earth does this have to do with a ferry service to the continent? I want whatever you're on Ingo!
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Tom Jeffries
Monday, October 29, 2012
last time \I looked it had housing on three sides of it, with more being planned. No problems with more jobs at all, if they are not slave labour for our young expendable school leavers.
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ingo wagenknecht
Monday, October 29, 2012
More good news, nice to see the airport has a long term strategy. Smart move! I still don't understand why so many people have such a downer on their own local airport.
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Canary
Monday, October 29, 2012
that's the 1000 new replacement jobs which should have appeared ten years ago with the ferry service to the continent, is it?
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ingo wagenknecht
Monday, October 29, 2012
I have a dream. One day John will say something positive.
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Abraham
Monday, October 29, 2012
1,000 new jobs all sounds like a bit of exaggeration to me, but it's what you always get when the PR company are working overtime. More pie in the sky I would expect.
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John L Norton
Monday, October 29, 2012