Plans lodged for one million sq ft employment development

New plans have been lodged for the redevelopment of a site adjacent to Meadowhall to create more than one million sq ft of new employment space, including office, car showroom, hotel and retail facilities.British Land has submitted an outline planning application to Sheffield City Council for the River Don District site, located to the south of the shopping centre.The site was previously used for steel works, rivet and brass works, brick and tile works and railway land but has since been cleared ready for redevelopment.Consent is sought for up to 1.08 million sq ft of flexible commercial floorspace, of which a maximum of 430,000 sq ft would be offices.The scheme also includes provision for a car showroom, a hotel and almost 50,000 sq ft of retail and leisure space, as well as car parking, servicing, landscaping, highways and engineering works.It has been estimated that the development could support the creation of up to 4,810 jobs, with an increase in gross value added (GVA) of about £218m per annum.The site and an adjoining plot of land already has planning permission, granted by the council in 2009, for a development featuring between 800 to 1,300 residential units, up to 1.3 million sq ft of office space, hotel, retail and leisure facilities.Following the approval for the expansion of Meadowhall in 2016, British Land entered into a unilateral undertaking limiting the scale of the development to 645,000 sq ft office space and 800 residential units.The original consent remains in place and remains a ‘fall back’ for the applicant.British Land has been supported in its application by BDP, Quod, Peter Brett Associates and Arcadis.