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Warehouse plan for Kettering will bring 150 jobs



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Published Date: 13 October 2008
By Staff Copy
About 150 new jobs will be created in Kettering if plans to build a new warehouse are approved.
ProLogis Developments Ltd has submitted the plans to Kettering Council on behalf of an unnamed company which wants a purpose-built unit on the edge of town which would employ 150 people.

The new bespoke warehouse would cover 46,500sq ft at the Nor
th Kettering Business Area, off the A6003.

A ProLogis Developments spokesman said: "North Kettering Business Park is becoming more established with the introduction of further occupiers and the addition of up to 150 jobs to the local economy represents a positive step, particularly in the current economic climate."

The land earmarked for the warehouse has previously been used as farmland but is now vacant and awaiting development.

Kettering Chamber of Trade president Neil Griffin said: "Anything that is bringing in jobs, wealth and prosperity to the town is welcome.

"We haven't got massive unemployment as far as I know in Kettering but it brings more people in and brings prosperity to the area, so hopefully it will go ahead as soon as possible."

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Phil Cross, of Kenilworth Drive, Kettering, believes the jobs will be good news for the local economy.

He said: "I think it is a good thing to be creating jobs in the current financial climate. It looks like we are about to have a recession and it's likely that unemployment will go up, with many people going out of business.

"There are some concerns with the expansion of Kettering with regards to things like infrastructure, such as improving roads, hospitals and schools.

"However, I think this is a really good move and it comes at just the right time."



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  • Last Updated: 13 October 2008 8:08 AM
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DT,

Kettering 13/10/2008 11:37:19
How can the 150 jobs any longer be given as justification for building new units, when the 150 jobs may not benefit the local population if it is not local people that get the jobs?
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cleverzippy,

Kettering 13/10/2008 13:09:36
150 jobs are all well and good, but is warehousing a stable employer?
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DT,

Kettering 13/10/2008 13:17:35
If it's Eastern Europeans who get the jobs (as it seems to be when an employment agency is involved), it does nothing to benefit the local unemployed.
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Vic Mackey,

Kettering 16/10/2008 18:30:19
You can't turn your nose up at jobs of any kind in the current climate. For example, I bet those being made redundant from MFI would welcome them.
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donald.c,

kett 17/10/2008 07:57:33
i agree dt,not being predjudice but why pay a wage of 6 to 10 pound a hour that the job is probably worth when you can get a agency guy of what ever nationality to do it for minimum wage,it maybe my imagination but is this why kettering is being over run by flats and bedsits being built every were to house them.
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cleverzippy,

Kettering 17/10/2008 20:09:28
There is a great big 500,000 sqft warehouse in Corby next to where I work - crackerjack I think it's called, that is still empty. Not to mention more empty units just down Phoenix Parkway road. Any more anyone know about?
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Mark Winspear,

Kettering 17/10/2008 23:21:35
Yes cleverzippy, there's a massive unit on the Prologis North Kettering site, 400,000 sq ft I think. It's been completed and empty for about a year - ridiculously with it's Blackpool-challenging array of floodlights (far more than needed for security) gobbling carbon every night. This is on the same site as this proposed new warehouse. It's also interesting to note that the planned "high-tech" & starter units across the road on the Buccleach land are progressing at a snail's pace...
Unless there's been a recent letting, I think there are massive units still going spare, after a couple of years vacant, on the Proligis site adjoining the A45 in Wellingborough too.
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Ray Rodden,

Corby 23/10/2008 16:00:40
in olden times (yes, i remember) a factory of 500,000 sq feet would employ a workforce of 1000 or more.

Now, they employ 150 or less.

In a crowded country is covering vast areas with low density job creation platforms really a good idea?

We are just wasting the finite precious industrial land we have.
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DT,

Kettering 25/10/2008 12:42:04
I remember when the (innapropriately) giant units were built in Raunds, and an argument for permission to build back then was that it would bring badly needed jobs to the local area (and they were badly needed). It wasn't long before the jobs were not going to local people at all...when agencies handle the work, there is nothing to stop them declining to offer work and choosing who to employ instead (for a lower rate), because there is no obligation on agencies to offer work at all to anyone registered with them.
If these warehouses must be built, then let them employ people directly so that everyone has a fair chance of getting the jobs.
If unemployment has gone up by 15% in this area as stated in this newspaper recently, then minimum wage is not going to stop people applying. What will stop them getting work is having to go through an agency which is only interested in supplying employers with certain workers.
As a country, we cannot afford to let our workforce take up the dole en masse. I just wonder how many Brits will have to be made unemployed before this is said out loud. The Telegraph comment on thursday stated that there were already labour shortages due to Polish people leaving (which nobody really knows if they are or not)- how can this be true if unemployment figures are going *up* and employment figures are going *down*?
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