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Search the Public Notice PortalA leading East Lancashire-based office furniture manufacturer's plans to replace a warehouse at its Blackburn site and replace it with a larger one is to be debated by councillors on Thursday.
The Altham-based Senator International Group has applied to Blackburn with Darwen Council for the new building on Whitebirk's Premier Business Park in Croft Head Road.
Now the borough's planning committee has been recommended to approve the scheme with 20 conditions by its officers despite on objection from a nearby resident concerned about late night lighting from the site.
A report to Thursday night's meeting says: "The proposal is in the form of a full planning application comprising of a major development that seeks to deliver an ancillary storage unit to serve Senator Engineering which currently operates from the site as a manufacturing company.
"The scheme also involves other external works to parking and road markings within the site, as well as additional soft landscaping and tree planting.
"The council's development plan and the National Planning Policy Framework supports the expansion of businesses to drive economic growth.
"The proposed development in delivering additional floorspace to this well-established industrial use is considered to achieve this aforementioned aim and should help to secure the longevity of the current company at this site.
"Planning permission is sought to replace the existing warehouse outbuilding and tank positioned at north west corner of the site and erect a new larger storage unit.
"The proposed unit will be used to accompany the existing manufacturing operations undertaken in the main building by virtue of creating a more fit for purpose and larger storage area with high bay racking for products made.
"The proposed building attributed to the warehouse space will measure 66 metres by 24 metres giving an overall floor area of 1,530 square metre.
"There will also be an attached dock leveller along the north-western elevation comprising of 65sqm of floor space.
"Vehicular access for parking and servicing will be via the existing arrangements.
"The scale of the built development is proportionate to the application site and its height at 14m is broadly similar to the existing building at the site.
"The proposed building has a modern, yet sympathetic flat roof design positioned over two levels incorporating a parapet detail which screens a shallow dual pitched roof to the main warehouse part.
"The existing parking at the site provides 47 bays. A new layout is proposed to increase the amount off-street parking spaces by 19, and thus 66 spaces overall."
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