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All systems go for £2.6 million Olympia Park road scheme
MP Nigel Adams and BOCM's Richard Cooper at the BOCM site.
IT’S ALL systems go for the huge Olympia Park development in Selby.
A new £2.6 million access road scheme has been shortlisted by the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership for funding through the government’s Growing Places Fund. And it’s been announced a major planning application for housing and the link road will now be put to councillors in the next two to three months.
If the road funding gets the go-ahead, it will provide a springboard for the development to open up the land beside the bypass for the massive Olympia Park development, masterminded by landowners BOCM Pauls and Selby Farms.
The access road will branch off from the existing roundabout on the bypass near the swing bridge.
Richard Cooper, of BOCM Pauls, pledged that despite the economic situation, the Olympia Park partners remained committed to the development.
He said: “We believe it’s vital for the regeneration of Selby and the provision of employment opportunities.
“We have a lot of faith in Selby. BOCM Pauls is committing itself to keeping our mill in Selby open, and the development will go on around that.
“We will retain a presence in the town – we’re great supporters of the town.”
The masterplan is to provide 2,000 permanent new jobs and about 1,000 new homes during a ten-year build programme.
Sections of land behind the existing BOCM Pauls mill will be opened up for housing, but other areas east of the Potter Group property will be used for warehousing and industry, as well as offices.
Mr Cooper added: “The benefit of getting funding for the access road is that it will enable work to be carried out potentially more quickly.”
He said a planning application for the housing development and the access road would be submitted to Selby District Council by late spring.
Developers had been working closely with the council for years to make sure the planning application fulfils its criteria.
SDC leader Coun Mark Crane said: “We’ve met with the developers for more than two years now to discuss what they want to achieve and what we would like to see, and these meetings have been constructive.”
He believes this co-operation has been instrumental in securing the LEP shortlisting for the access road funding.
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