A huge area of new employment space, a sports facility and a new supermarket are due to be built on fields next to Formby Bypass.
The ambitious scheme on land north of Formby Industrial Estate would see:
- A health, sport and fitness facility with a 2,437m2 building plus outdoor sports facilities to include a swimming pool, tennis courts and multi-use games courts plus
- 27,000m2 of employment floorspace with car parking and servicing facilities
- A 2,172m2 supermarket with 120 car parking and servicing areas
- Service and MOT centre
- A signal controlled junction from Formby Bypass and access to the proposed uses
Sefton and Formby Developments Limited is aiming to build the substantial new development over at least three years.
The firm has submitted an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Opinion for the proposed development to Sefton Council, with a draft masterplan due to follow.
The application site extends to 12.6ha and the whole of the site is allocated in the Sefton Local Plan for the development of employment uses.
Whilst the site is currently taken up by agricultural fields, it is located immediately to the north of Formby Industrial Estate, which already accommodates a range of employment uses and other uses.
How the Sefton and Formby Developments Limited scheme in Formby would look
The application site, as identified on the enclosed Site Location Plan, extends to 12.6ha and currently comprises a series of arable fields with boundary hedgerows and drainage ditches. The site is bounded by further agricultural fields to the north and Downholland Brook to the east, with the A565 Formby Bypass (the Bypass) forming the western boundary. Formby Industrial Estate is located immediately to the south of the site.
In the application, the firm said: “Sefton Local Plan Policy allocates the application site as a Strategic Employment Location for the development of employment uses.
“The policy confirms that non-employment uses may be acceptable where they are necessary to cross subsidise the delivery of employment uses, subject to a full financial appraisal.”
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