Go-ahead for job-creating Travis Perkins facility

Planning permission has been secured for a job-creating Travis Perkins facility at the Vesuvius development in Worksop.Property development and investment company CEG will build out the bespoke unit and lease it to Travis Perkins. The development will create 20 jobs.CEG is currently managing the regeneration of the Vesuvius site. With planning permission for more than 200,000 sq ft of employment space, the multimillion-pound first phase of commercial development is due to complete this summer.Providing a multi-tenanted 46,000 sq ft of industrial units, ranging from 1,200 to 5,000 sq ft, and retail space adjacent to the recently opened Asda superstore, the first pre-let has already been agreed with Burger King.Later phases will also offer employment units including speculative as well as pre-let, design and build development for office, light industry, storage and distribution requirements. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service is also on site constructing a new fire station.In 2018, supported by D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership, CEG completed a £5.5m package of works to create a new roundabout and access road opening up the site and remediating it for redevelopment.Chris Proctor & Anthony Barrowcliffe from FHP and Ben Flint from Fisher German are marketing the site.