The emerging masterplan

We are drawing on our experience of successfully designing, building and managing Mercia Park to make the proposals the best they can be.

The current proposals are ‘landscape-led’, mirroring the successful approach adopted for Mercia Park.

The layout has been designed to minimise the impact within the wider landscape, limiting the removal of existing trees and hedgerows and creating large areas of new amenity for future occupiers and local residents.

The northern fields will be enhanced as part of the proposed landscape. It retains screening trees to the north as well as the mature oaks to the west and the hedgerows that form this parcel of land. The creation of woodland blocks, shelter belts, ponds and additional native scrub planting help to provide both screening and also valuable habitat creation.

A new 3-arm roundabout on the A444 north of the motorway junction will provide vehicular access to the site. Mercia Park would be connected by new active travel crossing points over the A444 to the north and south of the site, so that future occupiers will be within a reasonable walking and cycling distance of the bus stop at Mercia Park.

New amenity areas and walking routes would be created which would connect into the already established routes within Mercia Park as well as the wider area.

The site layout includes two development zones.

Development zone one includes full detail for a new cross docked 605,000 sq.ft. distribution unit designed in accordance with the successful principles established at Mercia Park. The second development zone to the north of development zone one is applied for in outline, with the detailed design for any industrial and/or distribution buildings on this plot being subject to future ‘reserved matter applications’, which will need to be in accordance with approved parameters.

The expansion would maintain the density of Mercia Park, with approximately 37% of the site area provided as enhanced and accessible green and blue infrastructure.