Land sold off for industrial scheme at former mine site

Property business Harworth Group has sold the first plot of development land at the former Kellingley Colliery in North Yorkshire to CRT Property Developments Ltd, a subsidiary of The Coalfields Regeneration Trust.The sale is part of the site’s long-term regeneration programme.CRT Property Investments Ltd has acquired 3.04 acres which forms part of the main entrance to the site, the first phase of development following the site’s closure as a working colliery.It plans to build small industrial units totalling 39,000 sq ft to support the growth of small and medium sized businesses.The organisation will now begin preparation work, with construction of the units expected to begin in April 2021.Completion is scheduled for September 2021, ready for CRT Property Investments Ltd to promote to local businesses.Harworth will provide enabling infrastructure to accommodate the new employment opportunities and in parallel will begin the wider facilitation of employment delivery on the site through a package of remediation and infrastructure works.The deal forms a central part of Harworth’s wider redevelopment of the 151-acre former Colliery site into Konect – 1.45m sq ft of consented manufacturing and distribution space.It will be the UK’s only inland distribution park offering connectivity through access to the M62 motorway, a strategic rail connection to allow occupiers direct access to all major UK ports with links to Europe and wharf access to the Leeds to Goole canal system.Following Kellingley Colliery’s closure in December 2015, Harworth took over the ownership of the site in March 2016.Since then it has demolished all redundant industrial structures including the site’s two former pitheads, while master-planning the site for redevelopment.It received planning consent from Selby District Council for the redevelopment of the site in 2017 and intends to develop the remaining land over the next decade to bring several hundred new jobs back to the area.