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i54 South Staffordshire is a UK technology-based business park located at Junction 2 on the M54 Motorway in the West Midlands, on the boundary of South Staffordshire and Wolverhampton. i54 South Staffordshire is a £50 million joint venture partnership between Staffordshire County Council, City of Wolverhampton Council and South Staffordshire Council. It falls within the Black Country Enterprise Zone. The site entrance is at Junction 2 of the M54 Motorway, to the west of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The site is home to several manufacturing companies including MOOG Aerospace, Eurofins Laboratories, International Security Printers (ISP), and the home of the £500 million UK advance engine manufacturing facility of Jaguar Land Rover.
i54 South Staffordshire is a UK technology-based business park located at Junction 2 on the M54 Motorway in the West Midlands, on the boundary of South Staffordshire and Wolverhampton. i54 South Staffordshire is a £50 million joint venture partnership between Staffordshire County Council, City of Wolverhampton Council and South Staffordshire Council. It falls within the Black Country Enterprise Zone. The site entrance is at Junction 2 of the M54 Motorway, to the west of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The site is home to several manufacturing companies including MOOG Aerospace, Eurofins Laboratories, International Security Printers (ISP), and the home of the £500 million UK advance engine manufacturing facility of Jaguar Land Rover.
Construction
Construction started on site in 2011, with MOOG fully operational on site by the start of 2012. The Aerospace company makes flight controls and spent £15 million to move from its current location, to the i54 South Staffordshire development. The company hopes to safeguard 400 jobs with its relocation. Laboratory firm Eurofins also moved into the development and was fully operational by 2012. On the 16 January 2019, permission was granted for a 60 acre expansion to the i54 Business Park to the west of the existing park towards Pendeford Hall Lane. The new extension will also be accessible from the M54 Junction 2. This new link road was allocated the number A4510 upon completion.
Enterprise zone
The i54 South Staffordshire site is the largest of the 19 sites which make up the Black Country Enterprise Zone, which has 5 sites in Wolverhampton and 14 in Darlaston, Walsall. The creation of the zone for the Black Country was announced on 23 March 2011 by Chancellor George Osborne. Enterprise zone status speeds up the process of allowing companies to re-locate to the site and encourages it with tax breaks.
Companies at i54 South Staffordshire
MOOG (2011) Eurofins (2011) Jaguar Land Rover (2014) International Security Printers (ISP) (2014) ERA (Home Security Company) (2018) Atlas Copco (2018) Access 360 (Profab) (2023) Victoria + Albert Baths Limited (2023)
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