The redevelopment of the former Honda car plant is expected to create 7,000 jobs on Oxford’s doorstep over the next decade, according to a developer’s plans.

Panattoni has submitted plans to redevelop the former car factory near the A420, Swindon.

The development is expected to cost £700m and it is hoped will create 7,000 new jobs on-site over the next 10 years.

Plans submitted to Swindon Borough Councils seek permission to create a logistics and manufacturing centre, develop the 145-hectare site for light industrial, storage, distribution, and general industrial and manufacturing uses, and create a new public park with cycling and pedestrian paths which link existing routes together.

 

An outline of how Panattoni Park might be developed

An outline of how Panattoni Park might be developed

 

The large developer of new-build industrial and logistics facilities bought the former car manufacturing plant last August, our sister paper the Swindon Advertiser reports.

Cllr Gary Sumner, of the borough council, said: “I welcome the submission of this first planning application by Panattoni and the scale and ambition of these plans which, subject to the planning process and the Planning Committee granting permission, would transform the former Honda site generating thousands of new jobs.

“Panattoni already has a track record in Swindon, delivering the 2.3m sq ft logistics centre at Symmetry Park for Amazon.”

Honda announced it was pulling out of the Swindon car plant in 2019. The factory, which produced the Civic hatchback, closed last year.

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