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LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
Welcome to our exhibition
BURBAGE
M69
Junction 1
Jurys Inn
Hinckley Island Hotel
IN SUMMARY, OUR PROPOSALS ARE ABOUT:
IM Properties, one of the UK’s
• Delivering a new parcel hub for DPD to help it
largest privately owned property build on the success of its existing site in Hinckley
companies, is developing • Creating high-quality commercial space to
proposals for a new employment attract new businesses to support the long-term
growth of Hinckley and the surrounding area
park near Junction 1 of the M69. • Providing space for growing local companies
• The opportunity to create approximately
We are in the process of working up a planning 2,000 new jobs
application and would welcome your views on
our plans. • A sensitive and carefully-planned
development with well-designed buildings and
This exhibition explains what we are proposing comprehensive landscaping
and how we plan to take the project forward.
Later this summer, we will submit a planning Feedback forms are available at the exhibition
application to Hinckley & Bosworth Borough and you can also contact us via our website at
Council. Our application will seek permission to www.junction1M69consultation.co.uk
build a new parcel hub for leading parcel delivery
company DPD, as well as approval for commercial If you would like to comment on the plans,
development to accommodate manufacturing, please complete and return your feedback form
light industrial and logistics businesses. by 5.00pm on 8th July 2017.
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
The site and its potential
DEVELOPMENT ZONE 01
(Full details are submitted for this development zone. Refer to
layout plans (ref: P004 - P010, P020 - P024 & P026 - P027)
and elevations (ref: P011 - P012, P025 & P028)
DEVELOPMENT ZONE 02
DEVELOPMENT ZONE 03
PRINCIPLE ROAD ACCESS
INDICATIVE POINTS OF ACCESS
EXISTING BROOK /
ECOLOGICAL ZONE TO BE RETAINED
LANDSCAPE / ECOLOGICAL
ENHANCEMENT ZONE
TOTAL DEVELOPMENT: 132,000m2
Dimensions are in millimetres, unless stated otherwise
Jurys Inn
Hinckley Island Hotel
SPACE FOR NEW AND LOCAL BUSINESSES
There is an opportunity at the The remaining 43 acres (17 hectares) of the site
would be developed by IM Properties for businesses
82 acre (33 hectare)* site near operating across the manufacturing, light industrial
Junction 1 of the M69 to create a and logistics sectors. Around 1,300 potential new jobs
would be created across this part of the site.
new high-quality employment
18 acres (7 hectares) of the site would be promoted by
park to drive economic growth in IM Properties to businesses operating in sectors such
as the automotive industry (and its supply chain), and
Hinckley and the surrounding area. other sectors of the economy where the borough may
be underrepresented.
If approved, this would provide the potential for The site’s potential and suitability to accommodate
approximately 2,000 new jobs and help deliver a development is also reinforced by:
significant boost to the local economy. • Its sustainable location – being within easy
DPD has a requirement to create a new state-of-the- reach of Hinckley and local villages it provides
art facility that will build on the success of its Hub4 an opportunity to deliver employment whilst
operation in the borough. The business has identified minimising impacts on local communities.
part of the site (39 acres/16 hectares) as its preferred • Its strategic importance – with excellent access to
location for a new parcel hub because: the M69, the site has the good transport connections
• It provides access to a reliable local labour force needed to make operations a success.
• Its proximity to the national motorway network • Its deliverability – IM Properties is committed
to bringing the site forward, subject to planning
• The specific size and shape of the site is ideally permission, so the potential to realise new jobs
suited to its needs and investment within three years, or sooner with
construction, is deliverable.
The new DPD hub would create around 700 jobs –
90 per cent of which would be full-time.
Hub5 will increase DPD’s overnight parcel sorting
capacity to help meet future demand from the
growth in online shopping. Parcels collected from
retailers and other businesses during the day would
be sorted overnight at Hub5. They would then be
sent to DPD’s network of regional depots for next-
day delivery.
*The gross site is 134 acres (54 hectares) and 82 acres (33 hectares) will be developed.
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
Masterplan
Jurys Inn
Hinckley Island Hotel
INDICATIVE MASTERPLAN A
We are drawing on our Development zone 1 would accommodate a
25,683 sq m DPD parcel hub. The height of the
experience of designing, building main building would be 12.5 metres.
and operating successful Our proposals will also include:
business parks across the • Up to 43 acres (17 hectares) for manufacturing,
logistics and light industrial businesses across
Midlands to make this application development zones 2 and 3
the best it can be. • A new roundabout on the A5 to access the site
• A strategy to reduce carbon emissions by
maximising natural light penetration and
constructing a well insulated, airtight building
fabric and efficient building services
• The use of low carbon and / or renewable
energy technologies where appropriate
• The inclusion of measures during construction
and operation of our buildings to reduce water
use and waste generation
Jurys Inn
Hinckley Island Hotel
INDICATIVE MASTERPLAN B
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
Design and landscape
CGI OF THE PROPOSED SITE DRIVING NORTH ON THE A5 IN YEAR 1 (LEFT) AND YEAR 15 (RIGHT).
THE VISUALISATION HAS BEEN OVERLAID ON AN ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH.
REDUCING VISUAL IMPACT
IM Properties is committed
We are committed to ensuring that building design
to high standards of building reduces visual impact on the landscape as much as
design, park roads, cycle and possible. Our designs for buildings and landscaping
will be informed by a robust landscape and visual
pedestrian routes, landscaping impact assessment. We will also carefully consider
options for what type of roof form and building
and management of the site. materials would be most suitable.
DPD has a specific requirement for a well-designed Sensitive landscaping
hub facility which will be based on the design and We have developed a comprehensive landscape
footprint of its existing Hub4 operation in Hinckley. strategy that draws upon the existing site features
Across the remainder of the site, IM Properties will and includes:
not impose a restrictive or standard design for other • Retention of mature trees and hedgerows around
buildings. We will focus on high-quality design that the site boundaries where possible
is responsive to and integrated within its landscape.
We will seek to accommodate views and ideas from • Enhancements to the A5 landscape corridor
the community wherever possible. We will however including tree, woodland and native hedge planting
look to deliver a well-designed development, with
• 14 acres of native tree and woodland planting
common features and materials.
around the boundaries of the site
• Approximately three acres of species rich
grassland to enhance wildlife habitats
• Planting over 400 additional large trees
throughout the employment park
• Improvements to the wetland habitat along the
Soar Brook which will include planting species
rich grassland and providing a combined foot/
cycle path and seating area
• Management of surface water using attenuation
ponds to maximise ecological benefit
SOAR BROOK LANDSCAPE CORRIDOR
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
Assessing our impact
16% 0%
22% 7% 23% 39%
DEVELOPMENT
SITE
3% 46% JURYS INN
HINCKLEY ISLAND
HOTEL
2% 0%
SITE
13% 0%
ENTRANCE
Percentage of Development Traffic
CARS HGVS 21% 9%
© Crown copyright and database rights 2017 Ordnance Survey 0100031673
MAP TO SHOW PROPORTIONAL SPREAD OF ALL DEVELOPMENT VEHICLE MOVEMENTS TO AND FROM THE SITE
We understand that for development to be approved there
must be acceptable impacts on the road network as well as
considerate construction and operation of the site.
TRAFFIC IMPACT SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
DPD’s new parcel hub would only operate at night. A sustainable transport strategy will be developed to:
Staff would arrive at the site between 5pm and 7pm
and leave between 2am and 4am. HGV traffic would • Introduce a number of measures that would
start to arrive at the hub around 7pm and finish provide employees with a range of alternatives
between 2am and 3am. Therefore, with the exception to the private car
of the start of the shift all traffic movements to and • Provide public transport services to call into the
from the hub would be off-peak. DPD HGVs would not site between 05:00 and 18.30 in order to cater for
travel through Burbage village at any time. the majority of non DPD staff at the site
Based on the site accommodating DPD and a mix of • Ensure that appropriate transport options exist where
employment uses, leading transport consultants have public transport does not match DPD shift patterns
modelled the likely impact of car and HGV traffic on
the A5 and Junction 1 of the M69. This assessment has • Deliver improvements to the A5 frontage to enhance
indicated that the vast majority of HGVs and cars will pedestrian and cycle connections in the local area and
head north towards M69 Junction 1. through the site
We will provide enough HGV parking spaces to make CONSIDERATE CONSTRUCTION
sure there is no off-site parking.
The site would be developed with careful
ASSESSING NOISE consideration for local people to reduce the impact
of noise and dust during the construction phase.
IM Properties is committed to delivering a development
that respects site neighbours and we are carrying out a
full assessment of the potential noise from the scheme.
This work will inform the types of noise control which
could include:
• The creation of bunds and barriers
• Considering the layout and orientation of some
buildings to minimise noise
• Best practice day-to-day management of the site
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
DPD:
supporting growth, creating jobs
DPD has identified the site as
its preferred location for a new
parcel hub because of the access The company’s positive experiences of working with
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council and the area’s
it provides to an attractive and dependable labour force at the highly successful
Hub4 facility have also been important reasons why
reliable employment market, DPD wants to invest further in the borough.
its proximity to the strategic road Since opening its Hub4 facility in 2015, DPD has
network and the specific size and received over 6,000 job applications and at any one
time has around 2,000 people registering interest to
shape of the site. work at the existing site in Hinckley.
DPD operates an apprenticeship and graduate
programme across its business which is designed to
provide opportunities to help new industry entrants
develop their knowledge and skills through vocational
qualifications, while at the same time contributing to
the business.
Hub5 will increase DPD’s overnight
parcel sorting capacity to help meet
future demand from the growth in online
shopping. Parcels collected from retailers
and other businesses during the day
would be sorted overnight at Hub5. They
would then be sent to DPD’s network of
regional depots for next-day delivery.
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
Investing in Hinckley
A HOME FOR NEW AND EXISTING BUSINESSES
There is an opportunity to A new development would help to attract new
businesses to Hinckley, meet the demand for modern,
strengthen the local economy and high-quality manufacturing, industrial and logistics
attract major investment to the units and allow the borough to secure £3 million per
year in business rates revenue.
borough by planning ahead for
It would also protect and secure homegrown
new jobs. This application offers an companies who may need to relocate within Hinckley
in the coming years. At present, there are no other
opportunity to support local and notable new build or site opportunities of suitable
regional economic growth through scale that these occupiers could feasibly move to.
the occupiers that will locate here. IMPROVING SKILLS, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES
Both DPD and IM Properties will work with colleges
DPD and IM Properties are committed to working and training providers to explore ways to help local
collaboratively with Hinckley & Bosworth Borough people access new jobs and improve their skills.
Council and local stakeholders to ensure that the The aim will be to ensure that local people of all
site plays an important role in the future economic backgrounds are well placed to take advantage of
success of the borough. the range of jobs that will be created, both during
construction and from occupiers when the rest of the
site is operational.
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
In summary
Thank you for taking an interest in our proposals.
We hope you have found this information useful.
Our proposals aim to meet local and national know we can achieve a better planning application
planning policies and guidance for investment, job by engaging the local community and others who
creation and properly-planned development. can help to refine and improve it further.
While we draw on our own comprehensive experience If you have any comments on our proposals,
and the specialist insight of our consultant team, we please complete a feedback form and return it to us.
IF APPROVED, OUR PROPOSALS WOULD BRING:
APPROXIMATELY OVER 200 EXTENSIVE
2,000 CONSTRUCTION
JOBS PER YEAR
AT THE PEAK OF THE
BUILD PROGRAMME
POTENTIAL NEW JOBS
£3m
NEXT STEPS
• Saturday 8th July: deadline for receiving • Autumn 2017: target for decision from
any comments Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
• July 2017: application submitted with • Q1 2018: construction starts on site
supporting technical assessments
CONTACT US:
Write to us: IM Properties, c/o Camargue,
Telephone: 03308 384 199
11 Waterloo Street, Birmingham B2 5TB
Email: info@junction1M69consultation.co.uk Visit: www.junction1M69consultation.co.uk
LAND NEAR JUNCTION 1, M69
A new high-quality employment park for Hinckley
About IM Properties
IM PROPERTIES SITE AT BIRCH COPPICE
OUR TRACK RECORD
IM Properties is a Midlands-based
We worked with North Warwickshire Borough
company located near Coleshill, Council to transform the site known as Birch
Warwickshire and has a strong Coppice from a disused colliery (employing circa
1,500 people when operational) into an award-
track record of bringing forward winning business park, creating 6,000 jobs locally.
Birch Coppice was developed to the highest
high-quality developments across standards of building design, park infrastructure,
the region. landscaping, amenities and management.
Though of a different scale, we would apply this
same approach to building design, landscaping
and long-term stewardship of the site near
Junction 1.
HIGH-QUALITY BUILDINGS AT BIRCH COPPICE
MARKETING SUITE AT BIRCH COPPICE VIEWS AT BIRCH COPPICE
For more information, please visit www.improperties.co.uk
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