Potential for start-up units at Braye Road Industrial Estate

Friday 12 March 2021

A Draft Development Framework has been released by the Planning Service for light industrial development at the Braye Road Industrial Estate.

The aim of the DDP is to curate opportunities for local businesses, develop start up units and help diversify the technology-based sector.

“This Draft Development Framework provides guidance on a variety of issues,” said the Director of Planning, Jim Rowles.

“The intention [is] to facilitate high quality, well landscaped development which respects neighbouring residential amenity, enhances the biodiversity of the site and responds sensitively to adjoining Protected Buildings."

Pictured: There are a number of guidelines and options in the proposals.

In the 2016 Island Development Plan, the Braye Road Industrial Estate is named as a Key Industrial Area. The area covers 0.42 hectares and is part of the larger Saltpans industrial area.

The proposed area has no buildings on it at the moment and was previously used for agricultural purposes. A number of units are being proposed for the site; the exact number "will be determined at the planning application stage”, according to Mr Rowles.

The lack of pedestrian infrastructure in the estate could give rise to a number of road safety issues, so work would need to be done to develop appropriate access to the site.

Pictured: The plans include examples of units and storage solutions.

You can find the document online and feedback can be emailed to planning@gov.gg. The deadline for feedback is 21 April 2021, after which the DPA will decide whether or not to approve the project. 

“Development of the site provides an opportunity to meet the requirements of local businesses,” said Mr Rowles.

“[This] may be through the provision of start-up and scale-up units to support the entrepreneurial sector, or units that would support the digital and technology-based sectors including industries such as MedTech of FinTech,” he said.