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POLICY ECON1 - INDUSTRIAL SITES

Regional Significant Industrial Estates:

  1. The following sites, identified on the Proposals Map, are employment sites of regional significance:
    • Hams Hall
    • Birch Coppice
  2. Within these sites, development will continue in accordance with extant planning permissions and further development will be permitted only within the context of RSS review.

Industrial Estates

  1. The following existing industrial estates, as identified on the Proposals Map, are the sites designated for local employment purposes to support the functioning of the Main Towns, the Green Belt Market Town and the Local Service Centres:
    • • Holly Lane, Atherstone
    • • Carlyon Road, Ratcliffe Road / Netherwood Estate, Atherstone
    • • Manor Road, Mancetter
    • • Coleshill Industrial Estate
    • • Kingsbury Link
    • • Colliers Way, New Arley.
  2. Class B1(a) office development will not be permitted on any of the identified industrial estates other than where ancillary to classes B1(b), B1(c), B2 or B8 use, and will otherwise be permitted only within the town centre areas defined on the Proposals Map of the Main Towns and the Green Belt Market Town.
  3. Class B1(b) and B1(c) uses will be permitted on the identified industrial estates or where the proposal involves the use of existing commercial land or buildings elsewhere within the development boundaries of the Main Towns and the Green Belt Market Town but only outside their defined town centre boundaries.
  4. Class B2 or B8 uses will be permitted on the identified industrial estates, with the exception of Colliers Way, New Arley, and Manor Road, Mancetter where only class B2 uses will be acceptable. Use of existing commercial land or buildings for such purposes will also be permitted within the development boundaries of the Main Towns and the Green Belt Market Town but outside their defined town centre boundaries provided that the scale and nature of the intended operation would not cause demonstrable harm to residential amenity or to the safe and free flow of traffic on the local road network.

All Sites

  1. In all cases, the quantum of development arising from any expansion, conversion or redevelopment of existing premises will be limited to that provided for by Classes B and D of part 8 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995.

Small Units

  1. Where the redevelopment or refurbishment of an industrial estate is proposed the creation of small industrial units (up to 465 sq m) and their management through s106 agreements will be sought.

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