Bringing Aycliffe Business Park Together | 15
AYCLIFFE
BUSINESS PARK
CONTINUES TO
THRIVE
Aycliffe Business Park continues to be one of
the region’s industrial hot spots, but is also
a key area for office space, say chartered
surveyors Sanderson Weatherall.
The park has seen a busy six months,
following a number of deals brokered by
agents Sanderson Weatherall, with engineering
company Gestamp Tallent having taken a 12year lease on the former Sanyo site to assist
in the growth at its North-East operation.
Sanderson Weatherall helped to secure the
lease on the 10-acre site, adjacent to the
company’s existing premises.
The lease includes the site’s two industrial
buildings, which provide a total of more than
123,000 sq ft of internal floor space. The site
is owned by Arctic Cat Property and asset
managed by Roebuck Capital from London.
Gestamp Tallent produces automotive
components for a number of vehicle
manufacturers in the United Kingdom and
across the globe.
Jonathan Simpson, Partner at Sanderson
Weatherall, said: “The Gestamp deal continues
the engineering and manufacturing-led drive,
which we are seeing within the industrial
commercial property market here in the NorthEast, and particularly at Aycliffe. It is the largest
letting on Aycliffe since we completed on the
150,000 sq ft letting to Ebac at the back end of
last year on the former Radius Systems site.
”
Jonathan added: “We have had a very busy
period, having also completed the letting of
70,000 sq ft on Grindon Way to Tyne Tees
Packaging back in June, and the letting of
unit 1 Angels Close, comprising 17
,000 sq ft
to Advanced Automated Systems which only
completed at the end of August, illustrating the
significant demand for space and perhaps more
importantly the lack of available stock going
forward.
sq ft office to Baltic Training and the letting of a
similar sized unit to Rentify on Parsons Court in
the heart of the business park.
”
Sanderson Weatherall are now hoping to find
new occupiers for the former Holiways garage
site, after completing its sale earlier this year.
Bradford-based property development company,
Prestige Car Direct Properties, has made the
27
,501 sq ft site available as showroom, office,
workshop and display land space. A total of
eight premises are available for let, with land
opportunities ranging from 1,079 sq ft to the full
27
,501 sq ft.
www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk
“As far as the office market goes, we have
also seen a marked improvement in the sector
having recently completed the sale of a 2,250
HARLANDS ACCOUNTANTS LAUNCH BUSINESS
BUILDER WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Harlands Accountants hosted the first of this year’s planned business builder
workshops in July as they continue to bring the world’s leading business
speakers to the North East.
The County Durham-based accountants,
invited former actor, writer, and professional
poker player, Caspar Berry to speak to a
packed room full of business minded guests
at Ramside Hall.
Managing Director of Harlands, Glyn Davison
was delighted with the feedback and content
of this first in a stream of business builder
events.
“We’ve had a great reaction to the speaker
and content and cant wait till our next event!"
said Glyn.
Caspar used a very interesting metaphor of
poker to explain how risk can be calculated
and that we shouldn’t be afraid to lose a
hand (fail) in the short term, as long as we
can see that the decisions/risks will pay off
in the long term. The event was designed to
help business owners/managers grow their
skills with an ultimate aim to build better
businesses and I think we achieved that”
The next of Harlands business builder
workshops will be on 11th December with a
keynote from Durham based Geoff Ramm.
Geoff is the creator of 'Celebrity Service' and
‘Observational Marketing’ which he shared
with the audience at Harlands brand launch in
December 2013.
Glyn added: “We decided to book Geoff
again due to the demand from our clients
and contacts. In his keynote, Geoff takes you
on a journey of memorable real life marketing
and service stories, which not only enthral
and enthuse, but leave audiences minds
buzzing with new ideas. In this event, we
want to help our clients and contacts gain
and retain more customers by standing out
from the competition. Geoff is a perfect
speaker for this!”
Renowned as ‘the Billy Connolly of
marketing’, Geoff receives rave reviews
from corporate clients and associations as
well as entrepreneurial audiences with his
fast-paced, highly interactive keynotes and
master classes.
At the December event, he will focus on his
WTF Celebrity Service content where he will
challenge the question of: How could you
upgrade every area of your service and have
customers beating down your door for more?
If this is of interest to you, places are
available for this event and can be booked
via www.harlands-cs-