Character Area 6: Airedale Business Park

Airedale Business Park will provide an established home for green manufacturing and precision engineering, and focusing on promoting the area as a high-quality employment and innovation zone within Keighley.  Existing businesses will be supported to grow and expand within the Business Park and new start-ups encouraged.

Potential interventions therefore could include the following: 

• Development of Beechcliffe Business/Industrial Park – supportive of the Towns Funding project to remediate land to the west of the A629 and secure infrastructure access, thus enabling the site to accommodate circa 150,000sqft new employment floorspace. 
• Redevelopment of vacant Brownfield land within the existing Business Development Zone (BDZ)– encouraging high-quality employment uses on existing vacant sites within the BDZ including land to the east of Keighley Ambulance Station.
• Redevelopment of the Council’s depot site – in the longer-term, the Council’s depot and waste management site could come forward for redevelopment, subject to finding an alternative site for this community asset within the wider Keighley area.  High-quality employment uses would be encouraged to come forward on this site.
• Enhancing the green infrastructure, public realm and links to the River Aire – New development coming forward should be encouraged to provide high-quality amenity, greenspace and encourage better access to the river for all to benefit from.
• Potential incubator and collaboration space – potential to create a focused incubator space, with support from Keighley College and Bradford University, this would help local businesses collaborate and access support, promote knowledge sharing and help to upskill the local community aligned with the needs of local industries, and provide additional amenity (e.g. Food & Beverage outlet) for employees.

The proposed interventions as set out are indicative only. There is no funding commitment at this stage to deliver the vision. If the proposals are supported by stakeholders, a more detailed delivery plan would be considered as funding opportunities arise.