Masterplan to Momentum: Two Decades of Kingsway Delivered

For more than 20 years, we have been at the heart of shaping Kingsway Business Park, having designed the original masterplan and helped steer its evolution from former agricultural land into one of the North West’s leading employment destinations. Our work is grounded in commercial masterplanning which respects the site’s deep heritage, archaeology and Rochdale’s industrial legacy. This ethos continues to inform our design approach today.

Kingsway Business Park is divided into a series of individually serviced plots within a carefully planned whole. The primary concept applied to all development on Kingsway Business Park is to create viable commercial development within a high-quality mixed-use scheme and attractive landscape setting. In recent years, the masterplan has continued to evolve with many notable recent completions:

• Logic: Eleven starter unit scheme ranging from 3,000 sqft terraces to a single 15,000 sqft unit
• Urban Park: Four units from 20,000 sqft to 40,000 sqft speculative development
• Monarch: 330,000 sqft single unit speculative development
• Imperial: Three units measuring 47,000 sqft, 75,000 sqft and 165,000 sqft speculative development
• Cabot: Two units measuring 203,500 sqft speculative development

The masterplan clearly focuses on employment-driven uses—industrial (B2), storage and distribution (B8) and research & development (Eg (iii)). By blending these uses thoughtfully through our architectural, landscape ecology and PD input we have helped to curate a business park that works for all including:

• Respect the character and amenity of neighbouring residential and commercial areas
• Minimise overall visual impact on sensitive receptors around the site perimeter
• Deliver maximum flexibility for future occupiers to adapt space as their operations evolve including
  • Efficient infrastructure, plot and plateau development responding to constraints
  • Maximising developable areas
  • Efficient yards spaces
  • Tracked vehicle movements for docks and level access
  • Delivered buildings with suitable haunch heights to match uses
  • Institutionalised building footprints and ancillary offices

The park is already home to big names including Asda, JD Sports, Amazon, Danish Crown, E-on UK and Dachser. We are excited to see the next phase of development now starting to commence onsite with the SMMC heralding an innovation revolution on the northern loop road.

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