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DARLINGTON: THE BEST PERFORMING ECONOMY IN THE NORTH-EAST
arlington - a market town steeped in history and ingenuity – big enough to have a lively buzz, yet small enough to be a real community. With the strongest performing economy in the North East, Darlington is a cost competitive business location with a highly skilled local workforce and fabulous transport connectivity.
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Having benefitted from over £500m of public and private sector investment over the last 5 years delivering a wide range of transport, infrastructure and physical regeneration schemes all of which were designed to boost the economy and increase investor confidence, Darlington is now set to embark on a further period of growth with an ambitious agenda to deliver 10,000 new homes and 6,000 new jobs over the next two decades within the context of the Northern Powerhouse and Tees Valley Combined Authority Strategic Economic Plan.
which has been named as one of the top ten places to live in the UK. With less than an hour’s travelling
time to York and Newcastle, and just over 2 hours to London and Edinburgh, Darlington offers shorter journey times to London compared to both Durham and Newcastle, giving it the ‘connectivity edge’ and further enhancing its reputation as an exceptional home to many successful businesses.
Along with sector strengths in advanced manufacturing and engineering, Darlington has seen real
growth in the strength of its subsea, business and financial services and logistics sectors, along with new opportunities emerging through the establishment of the National Biologics Manufacturing Centre in the town. Darlington still remains a place of world renowned innovation! All things considered, there’s only one question that needs answering: What are you waiting for? For more information, please visit
www.investindarlington.co.uk or if you have any queries please contact the Business team at
business.support@
darlington.gov.uk or telephone Ian Williams, Director of Economic Growth on tel: 01325 -406380
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The completion in 2016 of the Feethams Leisure Development, a £30m state of the art leisure complex in the heart of the town featuring a nine screen multiplex cinema, an 80 bedroom hotel, along with a number of national and independent bars and restaurants and a 650 space multi storey car park, now opens up further opportunities within the business and financial services and retail/leisure sector through the release of an adjacent development plot. The land at Feethams is 0.46 Ha (1.14 acres ) and is an exciting development opportunity. It is suitable for a variety of uses and the tender closing date is the 8th September 2016 . Alongside this Central Park, one of the North East’s most exciting developments, offers an array of opportunities for businesses within the biologic and pharmaceutical industries. And the development opportunities
don’t end there. With a number of sites sitting adjacent to the strategic transport network Darlington can offer design and build opportunities up to 1.8 million square feet, all within an area
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