\n The Space Test North centre could bring 50 jobs to the town, and \u201cestablish Keighley as a nationally-important hub for space technology.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n It would be based at Providence Park \u2013 a business park off Dalton Lane that was built using cash from the Keighley Towns Fund.\n<\/p>\n
North’s only space-testing facility<\/p>\n
\n At a meeting of Bradford Council\u2019s Reform led Executive on September 8, members will be asked to provide a grant from Keighley\u2019s Local Regeneration Fund grant to company BSC Filters Ltd to \u201cfacilitate a significant inward investment into a space equipment testing facility in Keighley, to boost economic development, skills and training, in line with the district\u2019s Regeneration & Growth Strategy, delivering new advanced research, testing and manufacturing capacity.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n A report to the Executive says: \u201cThis project gives Bradford district a rare opportunity to secure a globally backed investment that would create the North’s only space-testing facility, anchor a growing space and RF cluster in Keighley, generate high-skilled jobs, develop local talent, and establish the district as a nationally important hub for advanced manufacturing and space technology.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Executive is being asked to approve a maximum grant of \u00a34.524 million from the Local Regeneration Fund for MPG Europe, a brand under Dover Corporation\u2019s MPG operating company, towards the \u00a39 million capital cost of developing the new facility at Providence Park, in the town centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n The remaining capital investment would be provided by Dover Corporation, and if the expenditure is less than \u00a39.048 million, the grant contribution will be capped at 50 per cent.\n<\/p>\n
\n The council grant would be funded entirely from its existing \u00a319.8 million Levelling Up Fund allocation for Keighley (now known as the Local Regeneration Fund).\n<\/p>\n
\n Space Test North would provide specialist radio frequency and environmental testing for space and satellite hardware and there is currently no comparable facility of this kind across the region.\n<\/p>\n
‘Exciting opportunity for Keighley’<\/p>\n
\n Councillor Andrew Judson, Bradford Council\u2019s Lead Member for Economy, Planning and Regeneration, said: \u201cThis is a genuinely exciting opportunity for Keighley and for the whole of our district.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe already have a strong and growing space, radio frequency and advanced manufacturing cluster across the Aire Valley but crucially, this is about people as well as technology. It is set to create permanent skilled jobs, specialised training and career pathways.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are being asked to make a strategic investment in Keighley\u2019s future as a place to create and innovate, strengthening our position as an emerging UK space hub.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The facility would comprise around 1,400 square metres of industrial testing space and 200 square metres of training space, equipped with specialist technology including a mix of vacuum chamber, thermal chamber, humidity chamber and vibration table to recreate conditions encountered in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Space Test North centre could bring 50 jobs to the town, and \u201cestablish Keighley as a nationally-important…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}