Overview
Enterprise Zones are part of the Government’s wider Industrial Strategy to support businesses and enable local economic growth. Blackpool Airport was awarded enterprise status in 2016 until 2041.
The Enterprise Zone is a 144-hectare site that includes Blackpool Airport, Blackpool Retail Park, Blackpool Business Park and surrounding land up to the border of Common Edge Road.
The 144-hectare site is much larger than many of the other UK enterprise zones and straddles the boundary between the Borough of Fylde (55%) and Blackpool (45%). Much of the site sits within designated greenbelt and has multiple stakeholders, up to 20 freehold and long leasehold property interests and over 200 occupiers.
Easy to get to from Jct 4 of the M55 motorway (10-minute drive), Blackpool South train station (5-minute walk)
The purpose of the Enterprise Zone status is to:
· create jobs (up tp 3,000) and long term sustainable growth (up to £300m in investment)
· unlock development sites (up to 260,000 sq m)
· build new roads, utilities and supporting housing and schools
· attract new business to the area (up to 140 new jobs)
Latest Update
Following completion of the £6m Common Edge Sports Village, work is now under way to build a new road at the Enterprise Zone and create new development land.
The Enterprise Zone masterplan also plans for hangars and offices at Blackpool Airport to be rebuilt closer to the main runway, to allow development of Silicon Sands data centre campus.
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