(Essex Road and Park Plaza), to add to prime employment land at
Canada Fields, Turnford and existing sites at Waltham Cross, Cheshunt and Hoddesdon
Industrial Land Supply
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- Two of the Borough’s employment sites at Essex Road and Park Plaza have been designated as Key Sites of county-wide importance. These have been identified to ‘play a major long term role in the Hertfordshire economy, where employment generating activities will be encouraged and where co-ordinated activity and investment programmes are required to realise their full potential.’
- The Lee Valley forms one of SERPLAN’s priority areas for economic regeneration covering east London and an area between the Thames and Enfield. Currently, this area is eligible to receive ERDF funding by virtue of its Objective 2 status. SERPLAN’s Consultation Draft Strategy for the South East proposes to extend this priority area up to Hoddesdon. This could significantly improve the prospects for government and EU assistance for infrastructure and environmental improvements and help bring forward the Borough’s Key Sites.
- The Essex Road Key Site comprises 33 ha (hectares), of ‘brownfield’ land of which 16.8 ha. is developable, located within the industrial area of North East Hoddesdon. The site is identified in the BLPR 94 as suitable for general industry and warehousing. A primary objective for this site is to secure funding to increase the vehicular capacity of Essex Road, particularly the level crossing, thus unlocking the full development potential of the wider area and upgrade accessto the A10.
- There has been interest in re-cycling and energy-related developments on this site and an outline application (7/682-97) for a small new 49MW gas turbine power station on 0.8 ha has recently been submitted.
The Park Plaza Key Site comprises of 25 ha of current and formerly operational land as well as under-utilised land north of M25 Junction 25.. The Council’s planning brief for the site seeks to secure a comprehensive, high quality development suitable to attract high technology industries, or other activities in the national or regional interest. As at April 1998, six planning applications ranging from partial to comprehensive proposals for the site and with differing access arrangements were being considered. These include:
- outline application for up to 93,000 m2 of Business space (7/234-95),
- applications on the northern portion of the site for 22,300 m2 (7/107-96) and 35,560 m2 ( (7/547-97).
- recent comprehensive application (received in May 1998) is for up to 75,000 m2 (7/281-98).
Another prime employment site identified in the Borough Local Plan Review 1994 is at Canada Fields near Turnford covering 11.1 ha. The site benefits from an outline planning permission for B1, motor dealerships (2.4 ha) and indoor leisure/entertainment facilities. Two reserved matters approvals have been granted in respect of the motor dealerships (7/175-96)(7/176-96). The site has been the subject of three applications for non-food retailing (7/143-96)(7/069-96)(7/412-06) which were considered at a public inquiry which closed in January 1998. Nearby, there is an outline application (7/325-97), for retail warehousing on a 1.7 ha site off Halfhide Lane, north of the Brookfield Retail Park.
Other
Sites
Other sites with planning permission include
the former Tektronix premises in Pindar Road (7/326-97) which has a permission
for the redevelopment of the existing works, together with adjacent vacant
land for up to 9,800m2.Broxbourne Council is also considering a second
phase to its Hoddesdon Industrial Centre in Pindar Road (7/168-97)
on allotments adjacent to the Rye Park Industrial Estate. There is
also an outline permission for 4 industrial units on the remaining
1.7 ha of the former Costain site (7/318-94) amounting to 10,800 m2.
In Waltham Cross, a 8,000m2 replacement warehouse is being proposed
on the Eastern Electricity depot adjacent to the M25, but with local access.
Last Updated 29th July 1998