Buckinghamshire business park tipped for beds and data sheds
A consortium of landowners has revived plans to redevelop a Buckinghamshire business park, opting for a garden village, data centre and industrial scheme.
The occupiers of Thorney Business Park in the Buckinghamshire parish of Iver have joined forces to develop 1,200 homes, an electronic data storage centre and a storage distribution centre.
Cappagh Investments, H&G Car Parks and Quattro Holdings, under Thorney Lane LLP, have put together proposals some three years after initial plans were mooted.
A consortium of landowners has revived plans to redevelop a Buckinghamshire business park, opting for a garden village, data centre and industrial scheme.
The occupiers of Thorney Business Park in the Buckinghamshire parish of Iver have joined forces to develop 1,200 homes, an electronic data storage centre and a storage distribution centre.
Cappagh Investments, H&G Car Parks and Quattro Holdings, under Thorney Lane LLP, have put together proposals some three years after initial plans were mooted.
They have since adjusted the site boundaries, reworked the land uses and lodged an Environmental Impact Assessment with Buckinghamshire Council.
Proposals for Richings Park North on Thorney Lane include 17 acres for two data centres, a further 17 acres for storage and distribution, alongside a taller mixed-use station quarter next to Iver Station with retail, entertainment and leisure space, a hotel and a park and ride.
It also includes plans for a new four-arm roundabout junction and a section for Iver Link road.
The residential buildings would be up to four storeys adjacent to the station quarter, reducing to two storeys at the canal. Development would also see open green space and connecting parks to the west of the site.
The Chiltern DC and South Bucks DC draft Local Plan 2036 supports development of the site, releasing it from the green belt if there is a reduction of HGV vehicles. It includes an allocation for 1,000 homes and 130,000 sq ft of office floorspace.
Thorney Lane’s previous consultation boards for the mixed-use scheme focused on the garden village and offices. However, the current EIA request doesn’t specify a proportion of office space and instead proposes the data centres.
Demand for data centres has surged this year, with a number of large schemes proposed for London and the commuter belt. According to figures from Radius Data Exchange developers have lodged applications for 2.63m sq ft of data centres in 2020, with more data centre space in applications lodged during three months of lockdown compared with the entirety of 2019.
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