Could a vacant area of the former Brigg Sugar Factory site be developed?
Planning permission to construct an access road is being sought from North Lincolnshire Council, which is now considering the application for land in Scawby Brook.
The company which acquired the site some years ago is in active discussion with potential purchasers of land near the power stations, North Lincolnshire Council planners have been told.
This area is designated for employment use in the North Lincolnshire Development Plan, adopted in 2016.
In order to free up the site's development potential, there is a need to extend the existing access road, planners have been informed.
This will serve "future, as yet undefined, re-development schemes" to be the subject of detailed planning applications, in due course, from "others."
Drawings submitted in support of the access road application show a Future Development Site/Future Development Land.
Brigg Sugar Factory, which opened in the late 1920s, was our area's largest local employer by the mid-1960s with 380 permanent and casual workers.
The factory ceased production in the 1990s with many of the factory buildings later demolished.
Scawby Parish Council is objecting to the latest planning application "as no traffic management plan has been submitted with the application which would ensure that all construction traffic follows an agreed and acceptable route to site to cause minimum disturbance to residents of the area."
The Environment Agency says it has no objection to the proposed access road, the drain adjacent to the proposal not being a ‘main river'.
North Lincolnshire Council will now decide whether to grant permission.