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Midlands port in storm

4th April 1981, Page 7
4th April 1981
Page 7
Page 7, 4th April 1981 — Midlands port in storm
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AN OUTLINE planning application has been lodged with Solihull Council for a £20m 85-acre inland freight port alongside the M42 in Birmingham. The development will include 1.1m soft of warehousing, a 50 bedroom motel and reataurant for lorry drivers, security screened parking compound for about 50 lorries,. a trailer park, shops and offices but the project will also need the backing of the West Midlands County Council.

The site for the proposed project is Fifields Farm, alongside the National Exhibition Centre, but is in a green belt area, a problem which the developer, Inter Freight Ltd, hopes to overcome.

A public inquiry was held last week and its findings are due to be announced by July or August. If the plans are ap proved, the earliest start date will be August, 1982.

A county planning spokesman, however, has said the council does not want to allocate a site for industry in the area at present, while a local councillor claims there is no demand for such a complex.

But one of the men behind the Inter Freight project, Norman Norwood, is confident demand exists. Its location in relation to the motorway network, local feeder roads and the surrounding industrial area make Fifields Farm "the prime site in the country", according to Mr liorwood.

"The complex will provide much-needed employment and will help to keep heavy lorries away from narrow streets."


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