A decision is set to be made next week on whether plans for £40m scheme on five-acre site in Stevenage can go ahead.

Stevenage Borough Council's planning and development committee will meet at 6.30pm on Tuesday (October 29), to decide if the single logistics facility - which would create up to 300 jobs - can be built on the Pin Green Industrial Estate.

Property developers Fiera Real Estate and Wrenbridge purchased a five-acre site in an off market transaction in June, after plans for a Morrisons superstore on the site were scrapped in April.

The plans include demolishing an existing warehouse, which was previously occupied by Bond International but is currently vacant, and replacing it will a 10,824 sqm building.

The proposals also include parking spaces for 108 cars, eight motorcycles, 18 lorries and 26 bicycles.

The developers want "to attract a range of occupiers", from light industrial and manufacturing to storage and distribution uses, "with unrestricted 24/7 hours of operation for the unit".

Office space within the building will also allow for "a broader range of jobs, including management operations and administrative roles", the statement says, with the proposals as a whole "likely to generate between 159 and 300 jobs", therefore "representing a significant economic benefit".

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Although the site is within an employment area and is largely surrounded by other industrial units, there are homes to the south of Cartwright Road and to the south-west of Wedgwood Way.

Also on the planning committee's agenda is discussions around plans to build 38 new homes off Redcar Drive, and the redevelopment of existing stables at Courtlands in Todds Green to provide 17 homes.

To view the Bond International planning application in full, visit stevenage.gov.uk and search for reference 24/00525/FPM in the planning portal.