Potter Logistics has welcomed the recent decision by Selby District Council to approve a hitherto controversial planning application for Olympia Park in Yorkshire, where it has a 62-acre distribution centre and rail freight terminal.

The company, which strongly opposed the plan to establish over 800 residences, a school and numerous leisure facilities at the site when it was announced in 2012, said this week that moves to include sound attenuation measures there had addressed its concerns about noise levels for residents,  and possible operating restrictions being placed upon it as a result.

The move to approve the BOCM planning application meant the Potter site would be directly linked to the A63 via a new link road and would also give the company “fantastic access to a future employment pool” once the new houses were occupied, said Potter Logistics MD Matthew Lamb.

A spokeswoman for Potter Logistics added that its previous concerns over potential conflict between trucks and residents at the site, both in terms of accidents and dust arising from aggregates loading and unloading, had also been addressed.

Clipper Logistics, which also opposed the original planning application on the basis that the development might lead to it not being able to operate 24 hours a day at its depot there, declined to comment.

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