Planning consent granted for East Kilbride industrial warehouse.

Knight Property Group has been granted planning consent by South Lanarkshire Council for further development at Langlands Commercial Park in East Kilbride.

Knight will transform a 2-acre self-contained site close to the existing Phase One development to create a brand new 2,200m² industrial warehouse facility, which has the potential to cater for a variety of different businesses and create dozens of jobs for the local area.

The property will be developed on a speculative basis and will provide a flexible high-quality industrial warehouse, with office space, a 10m-high eaves height, air conditioning to the offices and two electrically operated roller shutter doors. With a target EPC rating of ‘A’, it will be a steel portal-framed structure and will feature high-performance cladding.

Knight Property Group Managing Director Howard Crawshaw said: “We are committed to further investment at Langlands and our proposals have been carefully considered and set against the backdrop of increased interest and positivity in the Scottish industrial, distribution and logistics market over the past year, particularly in the central belt.

“The success of our recently completed Phase One development, with recent lettings, has provided confidence for us to develop further on a speculative basis. Upon completion, the development has the potential to provide local job opportunities.”

Langlands Commercial Park is located within the Kelvin South and Langlands industrial areas of East Kilbride, adjacent to Sainsbury’s logistics facility.

The construction is scheduled to commence this summer and is expected to take six months to complete.