People in the South Hams have been promised they will not be left out of pocket by the much-vaunted Plymouth and South Devon Freeport project. The Freeport will pay for itself in the business rates it collects from new enterprises starting up in the di…
Image: Red Air Drones Aerial Media LTD for Plymouth and South Devon Freeport
Some concerned about finances
People in the South Hams have been promised they will not be left out of pocket by the much-vaunted Plymouth and South Devon Freeport project.
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Councillors in Devon have given the go-ahead to a £24m road, largely funded by the county council’s own borrowing.
The highway authority’s cabinet approved the delivery of the two-phase spine road to a new employment development at Langage, which aims …
The next stage of a popular Plymstock off-road walking and cycling path looks set to be extended – including opening up an old blocked off rail bridge under Colesdown Hill.
A section of the former railway line from Colesdown Hill back onto Elburton Roa…
A parcel of land at Sherford is to be acquired by South Hams District Council to help progress plans for a key Freeport tax site and unlock hundreds of jobs.
A local company is “interested in developing a logistics facility” on land at the edge of She…
South Hams District Council is set to acquire a parcel of land in Sherford to facilitate the development of a Freeport tax site.
The proposed logistics facility, likely to be developed by a local company, holds the potential to generate hundreds of job…
Two other tax exempt sites within the freeport have also received seed funding.The city council has allocated £4m to the freeport’s largest site at Beaumont Way in Langage and £1.3m for Millbay Docks in Plymouth.The local authority was given nearly £20…
A parcel of land at Sherford is to be acquired by South Hams District Council to help progress plans for a key Freeport tax site and unlock hundreds of jobs.
A key local company is interested in developing a logistics facility on land at the edge of S…
Plymouth Hoe (image courtesy: Robert Pittman:Creative Commons)
‘It’s all about getting the best for our residents’
A tax-busting ‘freeport’ could create 3,500 new jobs across Plymouth and South Devon, councillors have been told.
Plymouth is one of eig…
Plans for a new park and ride service to serve Plymouth and the new town of Sherford remain on track. The scheme is part of the refreshed Plymouth Bus Service Improvement Plan which is under scrutiny this week.
The plan aims to deliver bus services tha…
International innovator in marine autonomy and defence contractor, M Subs, which operates in both Texas, USA and Plymouth, has signed a lease agreement to expand business operations into the Plymouth and South Devon Freeport.
M Subs design, build and o…
Plymouth’s Freeport has been the stimulus for the creation of 100 carpentry jobs in the city’s shipbuilding industry and is set to open up many more job opportunities and raise wages in what is claimed to be one of the most disadvantaged areas of the c…
Next stop Plympton? (image courtesy: GWR)
They claim they’ve been “left out in the cold”
A fast-growing Devon town which has been ‘left out in the cold’ for decades is pushing to be reconnected to the national railway network.
Councillors in Plympton …