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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 …