case study | Former sugar beet factory, Kings
Lynn
Site Detail
- 120 acres
- Factory buildings and offices extending to 9,900 m²
- Settling ponds, landfill, County Wildlife Site
- Employment use
allocation
- No income at time of acquisition
Local need
- Supply of storage land and land for un-neighbourly uses
Planning improvement
- Planning consent and waste management licence granted for
materials recycling facility
Remediation
- Established levels of
contamination by Phase 2 environmental study
- Carried out clean-up works as necessary
- Demolished and cleared redundant buildings
- Refurbished offices and warehouses
- Created internal access roads
- Refurbished electricity supply
- Installed new pumps to alleviate surface water flooding
- Filled settling ponds
- Extended county wildlife site boundaries
Income generation
- Let buildings with extensive outside storage areas
- Found operator for the materials recycling facility
- Created annual rental income of £220,000
- Sold 2.8 acres to Norfolk County Council for a road
operations depot
Sale
- Successfully sold improved site in June 2005
