Three new commercial units at Market Drayton business park get green light

The scheme proposed by H&M Properties for Talbot Way, on the Adderley Road Industrial Estate in Market Drayton, would see a new commercial unit built on a vacant plot of land currently used for storage.

According to the application submitted in December, the 30-metre by 10-metre unit would be split into three units of even sizes to provide storage for local businesses and tradesmen.

The land is currently occupied by shipping container storage units and provides car parking for the applicants, but the new scheme would see the container storage formalised while providing additional capacity in a new steel-framed building.

Several objections to the plans from members of the public were submitted, with objectors mostly concerned about the impact on residential amenity from noise, smell and disturbance as well as the effect on the rear outlook of adjoining houses. 

But Shropshire Council planning officers have said the site layout has been designed to reflect comments provided by the council's Environmental Protection Officer, with some changes being made to mitigate the impact on neighbours.

Changes included the addition of a two-metre-high acoustic fence, a reduction in the number of doors and the introduction of planning conditions to limit the hours of deliveries and operation. 

The report concluded: "On balance, officers consider that the proposal, as supported by additional information and plans, is now acceptable and capable of being planning policy compliant with appropriate planning conditions of approval being put in place. Approval is therefore recommended, subject to the imposition of the recommended conditions."