Network Space secures backing for industrial scheme

Commercial real estate developer Network Space has secured approval for a scheme to redevelop vacant land in Liverpool into an industrial scheme.Land at Brookfield Drive, Aintree, has been earmarked for a development of five industrial units including office space, car parking, vehicle access and landscaping works.The plot has an area of approximately five acres and is comprised of bare ground following the demolition of a former school and subsequent clearance of the site.The proposed industrial units will be for research and development of products or processes and industrial processes, general industrial and storage and distribution uses.A report for Liverpool City Council’s planning committee on 22 November, which recommended approval for the scheme, has now been endorsed by members.The report said the development would make a “positive contribution” to economic growth in the city.The document added: “It is considered the proposal to develop the land for industrial operations is appropriate in this location. The proposal accords, in the main, with national and local planning policy and would offer a suitable type of development which would be delivering new employment and business use floorspace in the city, adjacent to an existing industrial estate which is identified as a key employment location in the city.”It is thus considered that it will make a positive contribution to economic growth in the city in a sustainable location. without impacting neighbouring uses or having wider highways or ecological impact.”Approval has been granted subject to appropriate conditions relating to the impact upon the canal, trees and noise limits.