LUXURY boatbuilder
Palmer
Johnson is steaming
ahead with
plans to create 800
new jobs in
Hampshire by submitting
a planning
application to build
a new manufacturing
facility in
Southampton.
The US brand, which
builds bespoke, multi-million-
pound yachts up to
100 metres in length, plans
to bring boat building
back to the heart of the
city by creating a 20,420 sq
metre factory on the former
VT site in Woolston.
The application follows
the controversial plan for
the rest of the site submitted
by developer Crest
Nicholson, which wants to
build more than 1,600
homes there along with
shops and a supermarket.
The site will also
include a multistorey
car park and a
hotel.
The super yachts,
which will be sold to
millionaires around
the world, will be the
largest leisure craft
in production in the
UK and the operation
will rival Dorset's
world-famous Sunseeker
boat-building operation.
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The deal was put together
by development agency
Seeda, which said
Hampshire had won a
"fierce international competition"
to attract the
Wisconsin-based brand
and said the benefits
would spin off into other
industries.
Peter Cusdin, Seeda
development director said:
"The submission of the
detailed planning application
is a significant and
exciting step forward for
the marine quarter and
will bring back hundreds
of jobs to Woolston.
Subject to securing consent,
the original vision
can become a reality.
Palmer Johnson plans to
take over the old RAF base
in Hythe in the short-term
before moving production
to Woolston and taking
advantage of the old deepwater
quay left over from
its warship heritage.
Captain Jimmy
Chestnutt, director general
of the Southampton and
Fareham Chamber of
Commerce, said: "The
Chamber of Commerce is
pleased that Palmer
Johnson's plans will result
in significant jobs being
created once again at
Woolston and the further
growth opportunities this
also presents for companies
within the local supply
chain."
Posted by: Steve, Southampton on 10:54am Fri 9 May 08
Any millionaires in Southampton? we might need some, don't want to upset the millionaires who come here to buy one, they may be treated as outsiders. Though no doubt the chavs/scums will have fun trying to put their own paint work on the boats lol
Any millionaires in Southampton? we might need some, don't want to upset the millionaires who come here to buy one, they may be treated as outsiders. Though no doubt the chavs/scums will have fun trying to put their own paint work on the boats lol
Posted by: Shalom Family, Cardiff Wales on 6:11pm Sat 10 May 08
"The application follows the controversial plan for the rest of the site submitted by developer [bold]Crest Nicholson[/bold] ,...."
Superyachts, superdreams, super jobs, super hope....super - money crashing in, what a hope, and why ever not?
[bold]Crest Nicholson![/bold]
[bold]The Shalom Family Campaign for Social Justice[/bold] wish you every success with your hopes and dreams in Southampton and elsewhere, but it would be easier to do that, if you dealt with your documented immoral disasters [bold]FIRST![/bold]
Need a reminder, Goggle search houseboat eviction.
Kind regards,
The Shalom Family Campaign for Social Justice, Wales
[bold]Disgustingly, shamefully, immorally evicted by Crest Nicholson,[/bold] from their own family houseboat home of 14 years, at Penarth Marina,Cardiff Bay.
"The application follows the controversial plan for the rest of the site submitted by developer Crest Nicholson ,...."
Superyachts, superdreams, super jobs, super hope....super - money crashing in, what a hope, and why ever not?
Crest Nicholson!
The Shalom Family Campaign for Social Justice wish you every success with your hopes and dreams in Southampton and elsewhere, but it would be easier to do that, if you dealt with your documented immoral disasters FIRST!
Need a reminder, Goggle search houseboat eviction.
Kind regards,
The Shalom Family Campaign for Social Justice, Wales Disgustingly, shamefully, immorally evicted by Crest Nicholson, from their own family houseboat home of 14 years, at Penarth Marina,Cardiff Bay.
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