The exciting new Business Park that will form a vital economic and integral part of ever-growing Kingsway homes jobs and leisure destination off the A38 south of Gloucester is now emerging.
The Business Park’s developer, Cheltenham-based Robert Hitchins Group, has announced that planners have agreed the master plan for the employment area, which will cover 40 acres and will offer some 1,000,000 plus sq ft of business space. The ratio of development will be 40% offices to 60% light industrial and warehousing.
Robert Hitchins Group is committed to producing something very special in terms of design and presentation on Kingsway.
Says Robert Hitchins Jane Tooley, “The greatest care and attention is being paid to the design and styling of the business park, which will be very carefully planned, ensuring that it contains attractive open space and that the many mature trees on the land to be developed are retained.
We shall also be most mindful in terms of the design and layout interface between the commercial units and the neighbouring residential areas - even providing a 30 metre landscaped buffer between the homes and commercial properties.”
It is expected that initial works on the business park should begin by February next year with the first units becoming occupied by late spring/ early summer of 2008.
Says Nicki Reed, chairman of the Kingsway Marketing Committee, “The Business Park is very much a part of the whole new Kingsway community – and of course there will be considerable potential for residents to enjoy truly local working opportunities there.”
With over 600 homes already occupied, more are now being sold on Neighbourhoods 2 and 3 – planners have also given the go-ahead for an extra 650 homes at a later stage of the development. The commercial and business area of this destination is very important. We are creating a new sustainable community, which will become a vibrant village, not only for living but for working too. Kingsway is to become a very unique place and will play a major part in the overall urban regeneration of the neighbouring Gloucester area.
The lucky people who manage to secure a property and perhaps also a job will experience a truly special environment difficult to match elsewhere.”
Kingsway is Gloucestershire’s fastest growing new community with over 3,300 homes planned by 2012. The development is being operated by QUVL, which consists of leading house builders Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey – the new joint company formed by the merging of leading developers George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow – and commercial developer, Cheltenham based Robert Hitchins Group.