8 new buildings and cafe proposed for Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone

Eight new buildings are planned for the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone which are intended to bring in new businesses and provide an onsite cafe

The proposals are aimed at helping to provide more employment at a time when transport links to the Squires Gate business area are being improved with a new road.

This latest application is a more detailed Reserved Matters planning submission on behalf of Blackpool Council, lodged by Cassidy + Ashton planning consultants and architects, after the authority’s planners approved an earlier outline application for the site.

The application is for the erection of eight buildings within business, industrial, storage and warehousing uses and a retail and café use.

The proposals included a changing places facility, associated access points to the development plots, service yards, landscaping, parking and boundary treatments, an Electric Vehicle charging facility on Amy Johnson Way and a link road between Jepson Way and the spine road.

The development site covers an area of land between Amy Johnson Way to the west and Common Edge Road to the east, extending to an area of 67,166sqm.

The new spine road, which will link Amy Johnson Way to the west with Common Edge Road to the east and provide access to the development plots, and associated highways works, are currently under construction and due to open fully in 2026.

The proposed new buildings would contain partial mezzanine floors to provide additional floorspace within the units.

A Design and Access Statement concluded: “This application supports an appropriate type of development for the Enterprise Zone and existing business park.

“The scheme represents a high-quality form of development which will sit comfortably with a range of businesses to this location.

“The development has been designed to complement its surroundings in terms of scale, massing and appearance whilst providing the space operationally required.

“It is therefore considered that the development complies with the relevant national and local planning policies, and for that reason reserved matters consent should be granted.”