A spokeswoman for the East Midlands Freeport board has refused to comment on details of a 250 acre logistics hub that could be built on green fields next to the M1.
It comes after Leicestershire County Council leader Coun Nick Rushton quit the board over his opposition to a big warehousing development planned for countryside just south of East Midlands Airport.
The land sits in Coun Rushton's county council and district council wards. A local pressure group called Project Diseworth has also raised opposition to the potential developing of the land which it calls a “green lung” between Diseworth and the Moto Donington Park services at junction 23a of the M1.
