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filconbury truckstop site to be sold as owner 're-jigs its focus'
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[he owner of the former Alconbury truckstop has decided to sell the
;ite — truckers hope it will remain a truckstop. Chris Tindall reports.
HE PROPERTY developer that 1.1"ns the land where the former idconbury truckstop was based as decided against applying for lanning, permission to redevelop ae site; instead it will be sold.
However, the saga of the 10-acre ite in Cambridgeshire took nother twist last week after Wrenridge I 'and told CM it would sell le former truck park to whoever as interested in it for the right ✓ ice — so it could be re-opened as truckstop.
An application by the Profesional Drivers Association (FDA) ▪ have a building on the land listed
y English Heritage was fruitless, ,ut following Wrenbridge's deciion the FDA is optimistic it could
be bought by someone who wants to run a truck park.
Karl Rout, owner of the popular Orwell Crossing Lorry Park in Suffolk, says lie has already been contacted by Wren bridge to gauge his interest in it: "I said not for £5m1 As an estimate the best part of Lim would be needed just to get it back up and running.
"I asked them whether they realised what the bank interest alone would be on a site like that."
Chris White of Wrenbridge denies that the company's U-turn is connected with any difficulties it might have had over planning permission. He says: We are looking at selling it because we have just completed, last week, a 17-acre purchase in Cambridgeshire. At the sometime we are joint-venture parties on a business park in the north of Cambridgeshire. It's a re-jig of our focus: we are readdressing our resources."
However, Huntingdonshire District Council says any application would probably have been refused. A spokeswoman says: We feel it isn't the right place for redevelopment. We support the truckstop; it was a good facility."
The PDA's Pat Nicholson says: We had a meeting with Wrenbridge; they asked what drivers needed from a truckstop.They said they are looking at all possibilities — not just at selling it. but at the viability of running it themselves, with managers or franchisees."
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