More than 100 new jobs are set to be created by plans to expand an industrial area at a former airfield on the edge of a Suffolk village.

Developers say the 91-acre project will also include a new roundabout access off the A143 direct to the business site - removing the HGV traffic travelling through Stanton.

Community consultation on the proposals for land at Shepherd’s Grove Industrial Estate at Stanton will be held this week by developer Jaynic.

The site, which will be known as Stanton Business Park, will be built on land allocated as part of a ‘rural employment area’ by West Suffolk Council on the former airfield between existing industrial estates, Shepherd’s Grove East and Shepherd’s Grove West.

In line with the council’s planning policy for the site, the plans include a new roundabout and access road from the A143 linking through to Grove Lane, providing all the industrial estate HGV traffic that currently travels through Stanton village with a "new, safer and more direct route" from the A143 to Shepherd’s Grove West.

Around two-thirds of the site will be occupied by Copart for the storage, distribution and processing of accident-damaged and non-damaged motor vehicles. Copart expects to provide up to 90 full-time jobs.

Four further plots are allocated in the plans for commercial/roadside uses and general employment (around 10 acres in total), providing additional jobs.

The plans will be available to see at a drop-in public consultation event on Thursday, July 21 from 3pm to 8pm at Stanton Village Hall, The Recreation Ground, Old Bury Road, Stanton.

Members of the project team will be able to discuss the proposals and answer questions.

Feedback will be invited up to August 19. Jaynic will then consider the feedback before finalising the plans and submitting a planning application to West Suffolk Council in the autumn.

Jaynic has been involved in a number of developments in the region, including at Suffolk Park in Bury St Edmunds, where it currently has 283,000 sq ft of property under construction including a warehouse pre-let to Evri, and is also the development manager at Gateway 14, Stowmarket, where the company has recently exchanged contracts with The Range for a 1.17m sq ft distribution hub, subject to planning.