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Developers join for £50m Waverley scheme

Source: http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/

Developers Dransfield Properties and Harworth Group have teamed up for a £50m mixed use scheme near Rotherham.The planned 12-acre retail, office and leisure development is part of the strategic regeneration of the 740-acre Waverley development, just off Junction 33 of the M1 and Yorkshire’s largest ever brownfield mixed-use redevelopment.Dransfield and Harworth are planning to build a local centre with nearly 100,000 sq ft of retail space, including a 24,500 sq ft food store, along with office space, a new hotel, a medical centre, a gym and a bus station.Their development will formally link the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) and the residential area through a retail and leisure development, incorporating community facilities. A planning application is scheduled to be submitted in spring 2017.