If Walsall Council approves the planning application at their meeting on Thursday 21st February, the 27.8-acre site would acquire involve 488,250 sq ft of employment space. The scheme is hoped to be open by 2021, with 900 jobs created in the long term and 250 construction roles in the short term.

 

The land being used for this new site is made up of the former Moxley Sand Beds Quarry and several surrounding areas of land. 

 

A council document published ahead of the meeting said: "It is considered that the principle of development is consistent with the provisions of the development plan bringing economic growth and productivity to the area.

 

"The site has existing adverse ground conditions that would need to be addressed as part of a reserved matters, however in principle terms this is not a barrier to supporting the outline proposal.

 

"There are no substantial ecological constraints to development the site, but an opportunity to provide net ecologically grounds through sensitive and substantial landscape improvements.

 

"Detailed designs through reserved matters will need to demonstrate a satisfactory relationship with neighbours and the general character of the area."

A document submitted to the authority on behalf of the applicant added: "It is felt that this site is wholly appropriate for development within the planning use classes sought.

 

"It is a logical infill and final ‘piece’ of the established and commercially successful adjacent business districts and will provide further valuable employment opportunities thus improving the economic profile of the wider area.

 

"Both the developer and his consultant team are absolutely committed to providing a building of the highest quality in terms of design, material selection, robust detailing, environmental credentials and inclusivity of access, which will be a sensitive solution that takes full account of the sites specific characteristics and neighbouring uses."

 

Source: Insider Media Midlands

 

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A construction site with more than 250 contractors or employees on it would certainly need a way to make sure that everyone on site is being truthful about their qualifications. The best way to do this is through the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (commonly known as CSCS).

 

A CSCS card provides proof that construction workers have the required training and qualifications.

 

Here at Time and Attendance Midlands, we are an IT partner of the CSCS. This means that we can provide seamless integration between the CSCS smartcard and our WinTA.NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems. 

 

The integration takes the end-user form of a CSCS “card wizard”. This set of rules allows a company to quickly grant construction contractors recognition by and access to our hardware, such as clocking terminals, turnstiles, and door controllers. The wizard will run one of three scenarios when giving access rights to contractors. These are:

 

• Contractors who are completely new to the system.

• Contractors whose name exists on the system but their CSCS card has not been entered.

• Contractors who are fully recorded on the system and have used their card at other sites, but are new to this particular site.

 

For each different scenario the wizard will guide the user through the enrolment procedure. The result is that:

 

• The contractor’s CSCS card is read (using a USB card reader attached to a Tensor.NET Client PC)

• Details are extracted from the card to update the contractor’s details within the system

• Options such as a company, site, shift group and department are assigned to the cardholder

 

To make it easier to include new contractors in your site’s existing health and safety and security procedures, please contact us today. We can handle any size site: our Enterprise software is able to perform for global, multi-site corporations with thousands of employees/users, while our Start edition helps small businesses with between 10 – 50 users.