Multimillion-pound refurb completes at trading estate

Around £3m has been invested in a Worcestershire trading estate with businesses based at the site benefiting from upgraded facilities and refurbishments.

Improvements at Hartlebury Trading Estate include a new high-tech security system, new roofs across a number of units, the refurbishment of vacant units and additional landscaping throughout the site.

Rupert Jeffries of Collingwood Rigby, asset manager for the estate, said: “We undertook these improvements throughout 2018 as part of our ongoing commitment to maintaining the high-specification facilities that the business park prides itself on, and we are delighted to have completed these before Christmas as scheduled.

“Over a number of phases, we’ve invested in the site’s security systems, installing new and upgraded CCTV cameras and network video recorders across the estate, overseen a full refurbishment of our vacant units and fitted new roofs to 275,000 sq ft of our buildings.”

Jeffries also said that in keeping with the ongoing shortage of high-quality industrial stock throughout Worcestershire, there has been a “very strong demand for space” at the estate in recent years, which is currently experiencing record low void levels.

He said: “Those vacant units that we do have at the estate have been overhauled so that they are in an excellent condition for new occupiers,” he said.

“They have benefited from new floors, office accommodation, roller shutter doors and redecoration works, as well as external improvements including over- cladding schemes and improved services and windows where required.”

Occupiers at the estate include FedEx, TNT, Vax, CP Foods, and Apex Supply Chain Technologies.