As one of the first cities to have an Urban Regeneration Company, Leicester is already well-advanced with a £2 billion public and private sector investment programme directed by the   Leicester Regeneration Company through a Master Plan for the City that is transforming the City Centre and old industrial river and canal-side. The New Business Quarter now being developed next to the railway station will provide a perfect location for a range of government bodies.

 

Leicester’s New Business Quarter will offer at least 50,000sqm of office space as the centrepiece of the urban renaissance of Leicester City Centre. The New Business Quarter will provide flexible campus-style office development focused around a re-aligned railway station with a new bus and rail interchange and high quality public spaces.  As well as improved parking, cycle and taxi facilities, the office development will be surrounded by a new Retail Circuit, bars and restaurants, a new Waterside development and a new town centre Residential Community. Provision of on-demand resilient managed bandwidth at speeds of up to 1Gb/s over fibre rings is being planned for the New Business Quarter. 

 

Phase One of the New Business Quarter comprises redevelopment of the former Police Station site on Charles Street. This 1.2 acre site is just 300 yards from the rail station on the edge of the retail centre. It will provide 10,000 sqm of high-specification new offices, with car parking and incorporating a distinguished listed building which occupies a small part of the site. This development will be completed during the first quarter of 2007. Anticipated rents are in the order of £16 to £16.50 psf. 

 

Phases Two and Three will provide an additional 32,516 sqm of office space with restaurants, retail and residential accommodation, with a site start date in 2008. 

 

Grove Park is an established high quality business park directly off Junction 21 on the M1/M69 Motorways, offering high quality office development in a landscaped setting. Office development opportunities of up to 20,000 sq.m. currently available with the possibility of further land becoming available (approximately £145 per sq. m.). Excellent car parking ratio. Situated 4 miles from Leicester City Centre and close to the Fosse Park Shopping Park. Existing occupiers on Grove Park include Centrica, the Leicestershire Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority, NHS Commission for Social Care Inspection. A 4-star Marriott Hotel is currently under construction on site, due for completion in 2006.

 

 

Watermead Business Park offers design and build office accommodation from 5,000 sq ft – 50,000 sq ft on a prominent prestigious business park located fronting the A607 with immediate access to A46 Leicester Western Bypass. It is located on the edge of Watermead Country Park with a range of leisure and retail amenities nearby.

 

 

Charnwood Office Village is a William Davis development of 11 acres of industrial and office accomodation located off Meadow Lane in Loughborough, 5 minutes from the railway station and just 10 minutes from J23 of the M1.

 

 

A 15 acres site with an allocation of 24,000 sq.m. for employment use. The site is located at the junction of the A46 and A6 to the north of Leicester and it has excellent road access to the M1 motorway via A46. Also included are proposals for significant amounts of new housing, schools, community facilities, etc.