A derelict former petrol storage site in Colwick will be turned into 13 new industrial units and a builders' merchants. Gedling Borough Council’s planning committee have approved the plans for the former Total site, on Road Number 3 of the Colwick Industrial Estate.
The former petrol site has been vacant since 2019 and the main part of the building has since been demolished. Existing boardings across the front of the site have been vandalised with graffiti but now developers have been given permission to rejuvenate the land.
The plans were lodged by national developer Chancerygate, which occupied the site in November 2021 and said “hundreds of jobs” could be created. The company said at the time that, overall, the wider scheme has an estimated value of about £20m.
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The Labour-run council confirmed in planning documents it will negotiate an agreement to ensure some construction jobs go to the local workforce. The site will see five blocks of units created, with four to be shared across the 13 industrial units.
