The planning applications covers the last steps in a £8.2m programme of works to install infrastructure to attract developers from sectors including rail, manufacturing, offshore operations, and port-related storage and distribution.
The 11-acre site currently known as Hendon Sidings has been renamed Trinity – Rail, Road and Sea and will be shovel ready for developers should the planned works be approved and completed.
The planned infrastructure work in the west of the port follows road improvements throughout the port estate and infrastructure work in the east of the port.
Councillor Graeme Miller, leader of Sunderland City Council and chair of the port board, said: “This latest phase of work, which will ensure the right infrastructure is in place to attract investors to Trinity Rail, Road & Sea, is a vital step in ensuring the wider port estate is a highly investible proposition, maximising the economic advantage our port can provide to the city.”
The port is already involved in storage and logistics for offshore wind projects and has a tyre recycling plant in construction with backing from oil giant Vitol; the plant will produce materials from waste tyres including including naphtha, distillates and bunker oil which Vitol has signed up to purchase.
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