Property round-up: Planners say ‘Yes’ to Churchill, Toy firm finds new home; and more
A HAMPSHIRE-based property firm which specialises in building privately-owned retirement homes has been granted planning permission for 49 new one- and two-bed houses in Sale.
Churchill Retirement Living’s proposed development for the 0.65 acre site on the former Bar 2 pub at Hope Road in Sale town centre includes an owners’ lounge, guest suite and communal gardens.
“The site has been vacant for some considerable time and the redevelopment will make a positive contribution to the area,” said Churchill Retirement Living’s chairman and group managing director Spencer McCarthy.
“There is a significant need for private sheltered housing for older people in Sale and this new development will assist in making up some of the shortfall.”
“We are delighted to have been granted planning permission on this new site in Sale and this will be our first development in Manchester.
Construction is due to start in March this year and it is expected that the first residents will move in by May 2012.
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PROPERTY agent Mason Owen has been instructed to market a high quality warehouse unit at Millbrook Court, Knowsley Business Park. Unit B at Millbrook Court has been put on the market for £1.1m.
The 17,172 sq ft building has warehouse, trade counter and office space. There is also a separate external yard and lots of parking land for visitors and customers.
The Millbrook Court development on Overbrook Lane at Knowsley Business Park was built in 2005. Unit B is around 7.5m high and has been subdivided into private and general office space. It is currently occupied by home improvement stockist Gap, which is relocating. The unit is also available to rent for £77,250 a year
Mark Coulthurst of Mason Owen’s business premises team said: “We are delighted to have been instructed to market such a quality warehouse unit in a strategic and sought-after location.
“Millbrook Court offers top quality space which we believe would be ideally suited to a wide range of occupiers.”
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HALO Investments has let an 11,283 sq ft, Unit 1002, at its Wingates Industrial Estate in Bolton.
The unit has been taken by Activity Toys, a supplier of outdoor and indoor play equipment, on a ten year lease with a break at the fifth year.
The unit is just off the A6 Chorley Road close to both junctions five and six of the M61 motorway. It is a modern, detached, single-storey industrial warehouse building.
Halo Investments was advised on the letting by Knight Frank.
David Nuttall, a surveyor at the firm, said: “There were many options in this size range for this requirement, but it was the quality of the unit and added bonus of having a large yard that secured the deal.”
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A US company which specialises in precision dispensing equipment has signed up to a new lease at Ashbrook Office Park in Heald Green, south Manchester.
Nordsom Corporation, which is headquartered at Westlake in Ohio, has taken a lease for unit 10 at the park, which is a joint venture between Cheshire-based property and construction firm Pochin’s and UK Land & Property.
