The luxury car manufacturer’s long-term plan for its Crewe headquarters is set for final sign-off at Cheshire East Council’s cabinet meeting on Tuesday 9 May.
Bentley Motors is the largest employer in Crewe, with more than 4,000 staff on a site around Pyms Lane and Middlewich Road.
Bentley was granted planning consent in May 2016 for a 500,000 sq ft expansion, delivering an engineering technical centre, design centre, and workshop, to be constructed on an 11-acre site opposite Bentley’s office and warehouse complex.
While the masterplan acknowledges that this project will begin to realise Bentley’s campus vision, the company outlines "a wider plan of expansion and integration”. It proposes the creation of a single site through the closure of two roads, Sunnybank Road and Pyms Lane, which currently cut across the land and split it into three plots.
The masterplan includes proposals to extend the Bentley site north up Middlewich Road, to reach the route of the planned Leighton West Link Road. Most of this is land owned by Cheshire East Council, which the council has said "would be the subject of detailed negotiations going forward”.
The draft masterplan has undergone six weeks of public consultation, which ended on 14 February. The amended development framework and masterplan is being put before the cabinet on Tuesday 9 May.
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