Come on over to our place – that’s the message from Kingsway, Gloucester’s exciting, fastest growing homes, jobs and leisure community located on the A38, just south of the city.
Kingsway is holding a celebration Children’s Community Fair this Saturday (November 10th, from 3 ‘til 7pm) and is looking forward to welcoming families from not only the local area but other parts of the city too!
Explains Fair Organiser and Kingsway Marketing Committee Chairman, Nicki Reed, “It’s a very special occasion for us. Almost a thousand homes are now occupied here on Kingsway and we very much want to put ourselves on the map and introduce ourselves to the whole of Gloucester.
We’ve got some smashing free rides and games for younger children to enjoy as well as real fairground refreshment favourites such as candyfloss and hot chestnuts. The idea is everyone has a good time and gets the opportunity to see our wonderful new community at first hand.”
These are exciting times for the Kingsway development, which is planned to feature some 3,600 homes by the year 2012. The next phase of new homes on Neighbourhoods 2 &3 are already for sale and work has also just begun on Kingsway’s own two-entry primary school. The first pupils are expected to be at their lessons by September 2008, with a second school to be built at the latter stages of the development.
Excellent progress is being made on the planning and development of the Local Centre, which will feature a Sainsbury’s store along with range of additional smaller shops including a pharmacy.
At the heart of Kingsway, the Marstons company is progressing its scheme to convert barns and outbuildings at historic Manor Farm into a stylish pub/restaurant, which may well be open by the end of next year.
Commercial developers, Cheltenham-based Robert Hitchins Group, has revealed hat also planned within the Local Centre are a residential care home, a place of worship and a purpose built Community Centre. Good progress also continues on the provision of a Health Centre within Kingsway.
An exciting new Business Park that will form a vital economic and integral part of ever-growing Kingsway is also well forward in terms of its development.
Its developer, the Robert Hitchins Group, has announced that planners have agreed the master plan for the employment area, which will cover 40 acres and offer some 1,000,000 plus square feet of business space, with a development ratio of 40% offices to 60% light industrial and warehousing. 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.
Adds Nicki Reed, “ With hundreds of homes already occupied here on Kingsway, more now being sold on Neighbourhoods 2 & 3 and the Local Centre, School and Business Park getting underway, we are creating an exciting new sustainable community, which will become a vibrant village, not only for living but for leisure and working too.
Kingsway is becoming a very unique special place and will certainly play a major part in the overall urban regeneration of the neighbouring Gloucester area.
We want people to know about us – so the answer is - come and have a fun afternoon out with us and find out exactly what we are all about.”