400 jobs to be created at Forest of Dean Business Park
A former transport depot in the Forest of Dean is set to be turned into a business park which will create over 400 jobs. The former Richard Read Transport depot in the village of Longhope has been out of use since the family firm decided to shut up shop after 73 years. Soon afterwards, the firmwon planning permission from Forest of Dean Council planners to redevelop the site into a 10,000 square metre industrial park. Plans approved by the Forest of Dean District Council talk of potentially 409 full time jobs being created on the site. The application, by Gloucester-based agents Bruton Knowles on behalf of Richard Read Transport, would see the footprint of the site - currently home to the buildings fronting the road and two to the rear almost doubled to 2.10 hectares. A report to the district council's planning committee by its own officers called the scheme a "major development". It said: "The proposal compromises the construction of commercial units on this site, with
illustrative schemes demonstrating how 18 B1 units combining a total of 5,320sq m or two B8 of a total of 4,720 sqm can be accommodated." The proposal includes the provision of modified vehicular access into the site via a modified entrance point off the A4136 in the north-east corner l
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