Changes are being planned for the Ferndown Industrial Estate including a new builders’ merchant and twenty eight extra industrial units.
The builders’ merchant store, next to the existing Travis Perkins site, if approved, is likely to create 25 jobs, with parking for more than 20 cars and vans.
The site is an existing vacant plot to the rear of 45 Cobham Road and is surrounded by other commercial buildings.
A planning application decided by Dorset Council does not include any details about which company is likely to run the business.
Ferndown Town Council has raised no objection to the proposal, which comes from Bournemouth-based Haycock Holdings Ltd.
The other application is to clear the site at 1 Cobham Road, the former Allied Bakeries distribution centre which closed two years ago, and build 28 new industrial units together with a self-storage container area.
The proposal from Ankers and Rawlings Developments Ltd, is for the 8,000 square metre site, includes 1,400 square metres of flexible storage area with 2,400 square metres on small industrial units, for flexible uses aimed at starter companies, of existing small businesses.
Eighty-five parking spaces are proposed as part of the proposals.
Said a planning agent to Dorset Council: “The design of the proposed building is intended to appear modern and contemporary but still fit in with other general-purpose buildings within the industrial estate.
“In order to maintain flexibility for end users the new units have been designed with a neutral colour and material palette to avoid the use of colours that might clash with occupiers corporate colours.
“This also helps the new building to blend in more comfortably with their surroundings.”