The freehold of a part let, part vacant business premises in an established industrial location 11 miles south of Cambridge is being marketed by Eddisons.

Totalling 29,189 sq ft (2,711.69 sq m) across two properties, Saxon House & Unit 8 Saxon Way in Melbourn is suitable for a number of commercial uses, industrial, trade counter, office or warehouse.

At 13,428 sq ft (2,247.48 sq m), Saxon House is leased to technology consultants, TTP, as R&D accommodation, with loading bay access and parking for up to 20 cars.

Unit 8 is offered with vacant possession and is 15,761 sq ft (1,464.21 sq m) of showroom and office accommodation. The office space is configured in layouts offering private offices, meeting rooms and breakout spaces while also providing 25 parking spaces.

Saxon Way Industrial Estate is a high profile business location accessed from the A10 road between Cambridge and Royston. A railway station in the neighbouring village of Meldreth is served by trains between London King’s Cross and Cambridge’s two railway stations.

The village of Melbourn, itself, has a range of retail and service sector amenities.

Eddisons’ Mark Critchley, who is leading the Cambridge agency’s on Saxon House and Unit 8, believes the widely acknowledged lack of laboratory & industrial space in the Cambridge area adds to the attractiveness of this freehold instruction.

He said, “The undersupply of modern R&D and wider industrial accommodation in this part of Cambridgeshire is something on which many agents and operators in the area have commented on.

“The spotlight remains on the strength of the industrial property sector, in general, where freehold investment opportunities are rare and occupier demand remains positive.

“We expect this latest instruction on Saxon Way Industrial Estate to attract strong attention and urge any parties to register interest sooner rather than later now it has been publicly launched to the market.”

Eddisons is the sole agent under instruction. OIRO £2.9 million are invited. Viewing is strictly by appointment only through Eddisons’ office in Cambridge.

For more information, contact Mark Critchley or Joe Berry, tel 01223 467155, [email protected], [email protected].

Eddisons is the sole agent on new-build business units now available to let in the latest phase of the Oakwood Business Park in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire following confirmation by the agent’s Huntingdon office that Screwfix has leased over 4,000 sq ft.

With all the freehold opportunities in the phase now sold or under offer, Eddisons are instructed on four units to let currently, a number of which the agent has been appointed to lease by the freehold investors.

Oakwood Business Park is on Old Great North Road in Sawtry, adjacent to the A1(M). It is 8.5 miles from Huntingdon and 8 miles from Peterborough’s Orton Southgate district. The A14 is 7.5 miles from the development.

In addition to Screwfix, Eddisons’ agents advise that the business park’s new-build units have attracted a range of trade related occupiers and owner occupiers.

All the available units to let have allocated parking.

For more information or to arrange a viewing of the remaining units to let at Oakwood Business Park, contact Matthew Hunt at the Huntingdon office of Eddisons, tel 01480 451578, [email protected].

The beginning of January sees the Huntingdon office of Eddisons acting as the sole agent on behalf of the landlord in launching what its agents describe as a ‘substantial’ industrial instruction in the Cambridgeshire market town of St Ives.

At 44,684 sq ft (4,151.14 sq m), 41 Edison Road on the Somersham Road Industrial Estate is available to let on a new lease.

On a self-contained plot, it’s a detached unit with two connected workshop/production areas totalling 39,621 sq ft (3,680.82 sq m) at ground floor level, with offices at ground and first floor level.

The warehouse/production spaces have, in total, seven roller shutter doors to the rear and the side with a service yard also located to the rear. The office accommodation includes an entrance reception/lobby area, meeting rooms, and a canteen facility.

Somersham Road Industrial Estate is on the northern edge of St Ives and is the main trading park and employment district of the town.

Number 41 Edison Road is on a prominent location on the industrial estate and backs on to Marley Road – a key transport road in St Ives.

Stephen Power, Director, is leading the Eddisons agency on this industrial instruction from the Huntingdon office.

Speaking about 41 Edison Road on its launch this month, he said, “At the close of last year, we commented how the industrial sector has proved pretty resilient for Eddisons in this region and how available properties were still in short supply.

“The challenge for this sector has been the lack of good quality product coming to the market. So when a unit such as this at 41 Edison Road comes forward, we anticipate a strong level of occupier interest.”

Viewing of 41 Edison Road, Somersham Road Industrial Estate, St Ives is strictly by appointment through Eddisons as the sole agent.

To arrange a viewing or for more information about this or any other industrial property available in and around St Ives & Huntingdon, contact Stephen Power at Eddisons Huntingdon, tel 01480 451578, [email protected] or through eddisons.com.

The Lincoln office of Eddisons, incorporating Banks Long & Co, has dominated the Lincolnshire category of a national competition rating the most active property agents across the country when it comes to deals done.

The annual deals competition, run by property research platform, EG Radius, ranks commercial property agencies and individual agents by the volume of space and the number of deals transacted for lettings and sales across all commercial property sectors in the previous year.

The firm’s agents dominated the competition’s individual dealmakers listings for Lincolnshire, occupying eight of the top ten slots, including the top three in which Cameron McRae took the top spot.

Within the rankings for agencies, Eddisons, incorporating Banks Long & Co, was judged as the most active agent in Lincolnshire, having transacted 301,594 sq ft of commercial space last year.

Commenting on the firm’s achievement in the competition, Steve Hawkins, Regional Managing Partner, Eddisons, said, “The fact that we occupy the top slots is a great achievement in what, across twelve months, was a tricky market.

To have so many of our agents in the highest rankings as dealmakers is a real fillip to the firm, as well as a testament to the individuals themselves.

“These competition wins recognise Eddisons’ prolific presence on the ground in Lincolnshire, and the insider knowledge, expertise and focus of our agents when it comes to their markets and pushing deals through for our clients.”

Eddisons has made a senior planning appointment to its professional services team in its East & East Midlands region.

Lydia Pravin, MSc, MRTPI, joins as an Associate Planning Director from Brown & Co where she was a senior associate planner in its St Neots office. Prior to that, she was a senior planning officer at South Cambridgeshire District Council.

As a qualified chartered town planner, Lydia also hold a masters degree in urban & regional town planning.

While based in Eddisons’ Peterborough office, where the planning team is headed by its Planning Director, Kate Wood, Lydia will, primarily, work across the firm’s regional office network in the East Midlands and East of England. Additionally, she will provide planning advice to Eddisons other UK officers as required.

Announcing the appointment, Kate Wood said, “Lydia joins us at a time when many local authorities in the region are at key points in their local plan life cycles and reform of the planning system is, once again, in the spotlight at national policy level.“

“With over a decade in the planning profession, Lydia’s senior experience in both private practice and the public sector brings insight and skills to the Eddisons professional services planning offer that will prove invaluable to the firm’s clients.”

For any press queries, please contact:

Kate Wood, Eddisons Peterborough, 01733 897722, [email protected]

Construction of the new 32,000 sq ft headquarters of Avant Tecno UK is now well underway at Suffolk Business Park, Bury St Edmunds.

Eddisons acted as the sole agent on behalf of the park’s developer, Churchmanor Estates, in helping secure the deal that will see Avant Tecno UK Ltd as the owner-occupier and relocate its HQ operations from Norfolk to Suffolk Business Park.

Avant Tecno UK, which provides multi-functional articulated loaders to the construction and agricultural sectors, is scheduled to move in to its new purpose-built premises this summer.

Suffolk Business Park is a new commercial gateway location in the county being developed at Junction 45 of the A14.

Churchmanor Estates’ development masterplan for the park sees development in four distinct business zones, one of which is allocated for industrial occupiers and is where Avant Tecno UK’s new headquarters premises is located.

Speaking as construction of Avant Tecno UK’s new headquarters got underway, Matt Cloke, Develoment Director at Churchmanor Estates, said, “Avant Tecno are the acknowledged market leader in their sector, and so we are delighted to be asked to work with them to bring their vision for a new bespoke UK HQ, warehouse and showroom.

“This is an important investment not just for Suffolk Business Park but for West Suffolk as well, and we’re looking forward to seeing the project progress over the next nine months.”

For more information about commercial opportunities still available at Suffolk Business Park, Bury St Edmunds, contact Simon Burton, [email protected], tel 01284 702655.