Proposal submitted for Cheltenham's Lansdown Industrial Estate regeneration

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Nicky Godding

Proposals to regenerate part of a Cheltenham's Lansdown Industrial Estate have been submitted to Cheltenham Borough Council.

Adapt Real Estate is proposing to build on the northern half of Lansdown Industrial Estate, opposite Cheltenham Spa railway station. Its submission follows consultations with local residents and businesses held last year.

The plans include 215 new homes and apartments, a mix of market and affordable.

The southern part of Lansdown Industrial Estate has seen a range of businesses open, including a brewery and tap room, coffee roastery, and electric car workshop & showroom. But many of the old buildings in the northern part are derelict, at the end of their economic life or currently unoccupied.

If approved, work would not be expected to start on site before early 2023.

James Taylor, Founding Director, Adapt Real Estate, said: “We’re pleased to have submitted our vision to bring the northern part of the Lansdown Estate back to life.

“We listened carefully to the constructive comments we received from people living and working locally, and we’d like to thank everyone again for helping to inform and shape our final proposals.”

Lansdown Industrial Estate is one of four sites identified by Cheltenham Borough Council in the recently adopted Cheltenham Plan as suitable for mixed-use (commercial and residential) development. The total estate is an estimated 13.3 acres, and the northern section proposed for regeneration is approximately 6.9 acres.

A separate application has also been made to create five homes and two new employment units in the southern section of Lansdown Industrial Estate that also faces onto nearby Roman Road.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.