A new civic park is at the heart of plans for a mixed-use scheme to be developed on the site of an existing JCB factory in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.

The masterplan, designed by newly-appointed London-based McDowell + Benedetti Architects (MBA), includes a 5,000sq m innovation centre, a 3,000sq m primary care trust facility, a créche, 260 homes and 5,000sq m of retail space. Part of the plans for the civic park include realigning the brook, pond and café pavilion. The green will be linked with the town centre and will feature a new bridge linking to the south of the town.

MBA won the contract for the 22-acre (9-hectare) site after it was shortlisted in a Royal Institute of British Architects design competition. JCB Chair, Sir Anthony Bamford, said: “The quality of the entrants was extremely high and the decision to select a winner was difficult but I believe the design masterplan which McDowell+Benedetti has conceived will give the town of Uttoxeter a development to be proud of. "

The rest of the project's team includes engineer Alan Baxter & Associates and landscape architects Whitelaw Turkington. An application for outline planning permission was submitted to East Staffordshire Borough Council in August 2008