A Bristol-based packaging firm has outlined plans to move to a new factory in Yate, create 100 new jobs and build 260 new homes on its current site.
Graphic Packaging International says its 1930s factory in Filwood Road in Fishponds, is no longer fit for purpose. The company did get planning permission 12 years ago to demolish it and build new homes there instead, but couldn’t find a suitable location in or around the city to move to at the time, so never moved.
But now the company has found a new site, on the Great Western Business Park, and says the move there will trigger an expansion which will create 100 jobs in the medium term. And bosses at the firm have unveiled what it would like to do to the current factory site, with plans unveiled for 260 new homes.
