Development could create 2,000 jobs in Shrewsbury
A development that could create as many as 2,000 jobs was today described as Shrewsbury's most significant for 10 years.
Around 300 businesses have been invited to view the 35-acre commercial development site in Oteley Road South in Shrewsbury next month.
It comes as a new graphic was published that shows the size of the development, which sits in a prime location close to Shrewsbury Town Football Club.
The commercial land is only one section of a 100-acre project, which forms part of the Shrewsbury South Sustainable Urban Extension, and will include 550 homes, a community centre, a care home, a doctors surgery and a pub.
It is being marketed as a development as important as the i54 development alongside the M54 or various business park projects in Telford.
As this aerial photo shows, the site borders the A5, Shrewsbury Town Football Club's home – The Greenhous Meadow – and the Percy Thrower Wyevale Garden Centre.
On the opposite side of the A5 sits Bayston Hill Quarry. The scale of the quarry is shown in the aerial image, showing the layers of excavations that have provided thousands of tonnes of rock including that used to build the Formula One circuit in Bahrain.
Shropshire chartered surveyors, Towler Shaw Roberts (TSR), are marketing the Oteley Road site to businesses locally and across the country.
