Strategic Sites Submits Plans for £7million Rotherham Business Scheme

Strategic Sites, the development company launched earlier this year, has submitted plans for a 95,000 sq ft (8,825 sq m) high quality business development in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.  The scheme will consist of eight separate units, ranging from 5,000 sq ft (464 sq m) to 25,000 sq ft (2,322 sq m) in size.

 
Located adjacent to the Magna Science Adventure Centre, Templeborough, the scheme has the potential to create around 200 jobs in the area and is likely to attract some Objective 1 funding.  Subject to planning approval, construction will begin on-site in early 2007 with units available for occupation by Autumn 2007.

 
Anuj Joshi, director of Strategic Sites, comments: “This is a significant scheme for the region and will provide a high quality business location, which will appeal to both local and national occupiers. We hope this will be the first of many projects for Strategic Sites in the South Yorkshire region and believe there is further scope for developments of this type.”

 
Tim O’Connell, business development manager at the local authority’s regeneration arm, Rotherham Investment & Development Office, comments: “This is a high-quality component of our overall strategy to rejuvenate this key gateway between the M1 and the centre of Rotherham.

 
“Within the next 18 months the borough will have a range of quality offices and units on offer at Templeborough which, coupled with our dynamic economy, will attract local, regional and national interest.”

 
Strategic Sites is a joint venture between Helios Properties plc, Kilmartin Property Group and Wynyard Park Ltd.  The company is headed by Paul Barber, a former director of English Partnerships, who spearheads a team of individuals with extensive experience of delivering large-scale development projects.

 
The combined expertise of the team will focus on developing office and industrial schemes throughout the UK and in unlocking the potential of complex sites.  With around £50m of resources to invest over the next 3 years, the company will focus on developing sites in regeneration areas throughout the UK.

 
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For further information, please contact:

 
Emma Oxtoby, Strategic Sites           01937 584444

Simon Stretch, Porterfield PR            020 7647 4420