WORK is to start on a multi-million-pound business park which will create 600 jobs.

The first phase of the 30-acre Eden Business Park, off the A64 at the Pickering Road junction near Eden Camp, will include mixed industrial and office development.

The units will be ready for occupation from February next year on lease and freehold basis.

Yorkshire-based developers CDP Marshalls have said they are confident that the business park, one of the largest speculative developments in the area during the past decade, will prove popular, fulfilling a pent-up demand for quality industrial units with offices.

Miles Lawrence, director of York-based property consultants Lawrence Hannah, who are marketing Eden Business Park, said:”It is providing six high-quality industrial warehouses, with office space, in a superb location, with easy access to York, the East Coast and to Yorkshire’s excellent motorway network.”

Infrastructure works such as access roads and a roundabout are already in place, which have been part funded by a £2.1m Local Growth Fund grant.