Buildings

Building Uses

The site will accommodate a wide range of buildings, but most of them are expected to be growing or plant-based product production facilities. They will be “vertical farms”, Controlled Environment buildings, where the temperature, lighting and humidity are managed within strict limits all year round to maximise the growing environment. These buildings will be supported by others that are ancillary to this main use – research and development facilities, suppliers premises, energy generation and distribution infrastructure and so on.

The buildings themselves will be all shapes and sizes, depending on their particular usage, and also fitting in with whatever planning controls might be imposed on the scheme as part of the approval process. Unlike an office park, for example, the buildings at Aiskew will be built to meet the exact requirements of the particular occupier.

This means that, although we won’t know exactly what individual buildings might look like until we know who might occupy them, we can have a pretty clear list about the sort of activities that will be taking place in them. This is a comprehensive list of the type of agritech and associated activities that we envisage being permitted on the site:

  • Agri-tech businesses – especially where they make use of the local agriculture and agri-science base

  • Food and plant-based Pharma technology companies

  • Processing of agricultural, food and plant-based pharma products

  • Manufacture of food and plant-based pharma, plastics, energy, packaging and other plant related products

  • Manufacture of food and plant-based technology associated products – packaging, growing media etc

  • Storage and distribution of agricultural produce

  • Storage and distribution of livestock (but not rendering of animal products)

  • Haulage services related to the plant-based agri-tech on site

  • Veterinary services

  • Agri-tech innovation centre – for business start-ups related to all of the above activities

  • Agri-tech Academy – University or Agricultural College, with its own experimental farming land and glasshouses / growing facilities

  • R&D Campus – flexible spaces for innovation companies to be co-located on site – possibly near to their own growing facilities if these do not need to be in the same building.

  • Local Supplier Campus – space for suppliers to the significant companies on site, for example, systems maintenance, specialist cleaning, catering, materials and equipment suppliers etc

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