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Bingswood Industrial Estate

Goyt Bridge

Bingswood Industrial Estate is located immediately north of Whaley Bridge Town Centre. The estate houses over twenty businesses and provides a valuable source of local employment.

The Estate developed around the canal and was once serviced by a connecting but now long redundant rail link. The very basis of its growth, the waterways, now forms a barrier to its future development.

Access into Bingswood Industrial Estate is very poor, particularly for Heavy Goods Vehicles, which have to travel along narrow residential streets, through the canal basin and over an inadequate bridge in order to access the estate.

To remove this inappropriate traffic from the town’s historic core, and provide new opportunities for the Canal Basin, there is a long-term aspiration to construct a new access bridge and associated access road into the Industrial Estate.

The proposed new access will connect from the existing Tesco service road and via a new access bridge and road connect into the northern edge of Bingswood Industrial Estate.

Benefits of the new access bridge

The new access will create a number of opportunities for the Town Centre. Benefits include:

• Removal of HGVs from Canal Street and Bingswood Avenue benefiting local residents, businesses and town centre users.
• Opening up employment land immediately north of Bingswood Industrial Estate for development creating new jobs.
• Creating new development opportunity for the Canal Basin, in particularly the Transhipment Warehouse and allowing pedestrian links to the town centre to be strengthened.

Work undertaken so far

The significant costs and complexity of this project make its delivery challenging. Nevertheless the Borough Council are committed to facilitating the construction of the Goyt Bridge and have undertaken significant work to progress the project:

• Full planning permission was granted for the bridge in 2005.
• Structural and tender specification for the bridge is in place.
• An initial study into land valuation of the land north of Bingswood Industrial Estate has been completed.
• In 2008 British Waterways completed a Feasibility Study exploring potential reuse of the Transhipment Warehouse. (external website**)

Bingswood Industrial Estate Masterplan

To facilitate the construction of the Goyt Bridge High Peak Borough Council commissioned a comprehensive Masterplan (1MB) completed in June 2009. The Masterplan, 100% funded by DDEP, focuses heavily on access solutions to Bingswood Industrial Estate and practically explores how a new access route would work. It also considers the development of the 1.9 ha site immediately north of Bingswood Industrial Estate recommending development of business/industrial units.

Next Steps

Following the completion of the Masterplan the Council are working closely with our partners to construct the new access route into Bingswood Industrial Estate. The next steps include:

• Securing the external funding required to implement the project.
• Completing a detailed Implementation Plan.
• Complete detailed design works on Bingswood Industrial Estate where the new access route will connect to the existing estate infrastructure.

**Please note: High Peak Borough Council is not responsible for the content of any external websites.