Plan mooted to expand business park

A £9.5m scheme to create more units at Airfield Business Park in Market Harborough is on the cardsLeicestershire County Council bought 15.5 acres of undeveloped land at Airfield Business Park in 2016 and in July 2018 it obtained planning permission to build 80,000 sq ft of units on part of the site.Completed in December 2019, it has been a big success, with 10 of the 12 new units now occupied, despite Covid 19 challenges.Five of the tenants moved in to expand their existing Leicestershire-based operations and the other five businesses are from outside the county.The county council will decide later this month whether to press ahead and seek planning permission for another 27 commercial units – ranging in size 1,539 sq ft to 10,010 sq ft – on the remaining 7.6 acres of the site.If the proposal is approved by cabinet, a planning application is expected to be submitted in April 2021.If the scheme gets the go-ahead, construction would begin early in 2022 with the aim of completion by November 2022.