A FLAGSHIP business park which could bring 1,500 jobs and investment of £15m is being proposed for a redundant brownfield site in Barnsley's green belt.
Under the proposals the former petrol distribution centre at Oxspring, which has been out of use for almost 20 years, would be transformed to provide a wide range of accommodation suitable for occupants from start up businesses to larger firms which would want to relocate into the area.
Although the site is brownfield, meaning it has been developed previously, it is in the green belt but developers Yorkshire Land, which is currently in negotiations to buy the site from owners the Ministry of Defence, believe it could be developed in a way which would be sympathetic to the environment, using techniques which have been successful for similar projects elsewhere in the country.
It is expected that £15m would be needed to transform the site, but Yorkshire Land owner Stephen Green said it was expected a business park on the 25-acre site would sustain up to 1,500 jobs, with construction work in three phases each opening up space for 500 workers.
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