Green light for major mixed-use scheme at airport

Plans for a major mixed-use development of retail, leisure, food and drink, community and health space and new homes with the potential to create more than 1,100 jobs have been approved.Doncaster Council’s Planning Committee has granted permission to Peel L&P’s Central Plaza plans.The mixed-use scheme includes shops, community facilities, offices, retail, apartments, restaurants and up to three hotels.Central Plaza would be built in close proximity to Peel L&P’s proposed Innovation Quarter, an advanced manufacturing and logistics hub which already has planning consent.Both schemes form part of the company’s £1.7bn GatewayEast development, which is expected to boost the Sheffield City Region’s economy by £6.5bn within 15 years, creating 35,000 jobs across the Region and up to 3,000 new homes across GatewayEast.When complete, the Central Plaza development itself is expected to be worth about £250m per year to the local economy, creating about 1,160 full time jobs and providing amenities for nearby existing and future residents, workers and businesses.Approximately five acres of green infrastructure are included in the plans such as planting new wildflowers and woodland edging. The decision to grant planning permission was in line with the recommendation of a planning officer’s report prepared for the meeting, as previously reported by Insider.