Conservatory firm relocates to avoid Birmingham congestion

A COMPANY supplying conservatories has relocated to Worcestershire to escape Birmingham’s escalating traffic congestion.

Family-run Ensign Conservatory Roof Solutions has moved from Tyseley to a new site in North Moons Moat, Redditch.
 
Contracts manager Steve Dodd said that with the firm serving a wide area across Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, negotiating the increasingly busy roads around Birmingham traffic was becoming more problematical.
 
He said the decision to relocate the business had therefore been “a no-brainer”.
 
“It was about accessibility and communications with Redditch offering a huge benefit given the road system and proximity to the motorway network. So we decided to relocate,” he said.
 
The move has also given the firm the opportunity to expand and it is looking to increase the size of its workforce beyond its current nine employees.
 
The firm has taken 1,079 sq ft on a three-year lease in a deal brokered by property agents John Truslove.
 
Ian Parker, a director of John Truslove, said: “Ensign Conservatory Roof Solutions may only be comparatively small but their relocation should be a signal to others to follow suit.
 
“While traffic generally is getting worse, Redditch is in the centre of the country and at the heart of the motorway network. North Moons Moat is one of the premier business and industrial areas in the town on account of both the quality and scale of the development and of the ease with which the motorway network can be accessed.”
 
He said other firms in a similar situation to Ensign should also be considering relocation.