Employment development proposed for former power station

Plans have come forward for a significant employment development on the site of a former power station in West Yorkshire.Mountpark Logistics, supported by Oxalis Planning, has requested a formal EIA Scoping Opinion from Wakefield Metropolitan District Council for a proposed development on the former Coal Yard of the Ferrybridge C Power Station, which was decommissioned in 2016.Construction of Ferrybridge C in Knottingley started in 1962 and it began supplying energy to the National Grid in 1966. It comprised four coal-fired boiler units, each with a generating capacity of up to 500 megawatts (MW).Operator SSE, which took ownership in 2004, ceased generating electricity at the plant in March 2016 and began a programme of decommissioning.The application site is currently being cleared ahead of redevelopment and demolition work is ongoing.A development of up to 1.64 million sq ft of general industrial (B2) and storage and distribution (B8) space is proposed.An illustrative masterplan indicates that six units could be development on the site, sized between 170,000 sq ft and 500,000 sq ft.The proposals also include access, roundabouts and highways works, as well as car and HGV parking.