Port of Felixstowe Logistics Park receives planning consent
The first phase of a 1.4 million square foot logistics park at the Port of Felixstowe has received planning permission, the company said in its press release.
The approval covers the first four warehouses to be built as part of the scheme at the Port of Britain. The four warehouses consented as part of Phase 1 provide nearly 1 million square feet of storage space with the largest being 360,000 square feet.
The initial Logistics Park Masterplan contains provision for four separate units ranging in size upwards from 106,000 square feet. Phase 1 will occupy 51 acres of the total 68 acre site. The remainder will be built as part of Phase 2.
The logistics park will benefit from the same excellent road and rail connections developed to serve Felixstowe as the UK's largest container port.
The planning permission was granted a month after the completion of the extension to Berth 9 at the port and the opening of a £4 million expansion of its examination facilities for foodstuffs.
The Berth 9 extension allows two of the world's largest container ships to be worked simultaneously. In total, Felixstowe has nine container berths and handles nearly 45% of all UK container traffic.
