East Midlands Good News For Derby!
the very shops we need to flourish are being betrayed. The Council’s standpoint will no doubt be reinforced by their retained non-local national planning and parking consultants.
Their generic reports will throw round words such as “vibrancy” and “vitality” - but no mention of attracting “occupiers” and certainly no “guarantee” their plan will ever work.
Derby City Council needs to get its priorities back on track and quickly. •
As a surveyor engaged in the last 30 years in regeneration of the old city centre, Derby I report good news for the showpiece of the City – the Cathedral Quarter – namely the opening of a new 3,500 person capacity Performance Centre , the re-opening of Derby’s famous architecturally beautiful Market Hall - (see photo) - and of course in 2018 Historic England completed the innovative 100 shop front scheme, which restored shops, which had been modernised with aluminium shop fronts back to their original Victorian shop fronts and marbled steps.
The Cathedral Quarter is dominated by the Cathedral Tower which rises above the River Derwent, and with nearby streets is part of two massive Conservation areas and some 600 Listed buildings. The award winning shop front scheme sustained the remaining family owned destination shops and gave them confidence to invest and bred amongst them a spirit of enthusiasm.
Derby Council now have a cohort of shopkeepers at their command in the Cathedral Quarter, Derby, to lead the High Street regeneration. As opposed to convenience stores these famous destination stores need car parking for their staff, their deliveries and of course their customers, some living 50 miles distance. Unfortunately, Derby City Council have taken a different view. One major car park is closed and others will follow – the parking capacity is now already stressed and
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Support the “destination” shops with accessible car parking they need.
• Continue to respect the heritage of some 600 Listed buildings, a legal requirement.
Look after the new key players, the Cathedral and City Churches. Insist on quality housing.
Recognise not a single new office has been built inside the Inner Ring Road in 30 years as no parking permitted, compared with 5 million sq ft outside the Inner Ring Road.
• Recognise 2 million sq ft of buildings are rotting away in the Cathedral Quarter and adjoining streets – put these back into use and save our green belt and farmland from new development and the need to source building materials world-wide.
• Set higher architectural standards on all new buildings.
It was James Daunt of Daunt’s bookshops in Marylebone when tasked with rescuing Waterstones from receivership installed a res- cue plan which empowered each local branch manager to choose which books to put into their shop window and to only order those books which they knew they could sell to their local market. It was Jane Jacobs, the world famous city regeneration expert, who said a good town planner has no leather left on the soles of their shoes. The locals at ground level know what needs to be done. Derby’s desperate dilemma will be typical of so many other arguments in UK cities, each has its own USP – let the regeneration debate start with this magazine.
Derbyshire industrial development takes shape
individuals specification and requirements for industrial, storage and distribution use. The 14 steel frame constructed and steel profile clad units, which can be combined, offer yard and car parking, 6m eave height, a shared loading yard, 3 phase power, and EV charging.
Egstow View Business Park is located directly off the A61 Derby Road, with good quality road connections and easy access to Junction 29 of the M1 motorway and Chesterfield Town Centre.
A new business and industrial / trade park has brought vacant land back into use in Clay Cross.
Marroe Developments’ Egstow View Business Park offers high qual- ity new build trade counter and warehouse opportunities on the prominent site located just off Junction 29 of the M1, with major names Howdens, Starbucks and Screwfix already signed up on the prominent site.
The Derby Road development, available from Q4 onwards, forms part of a wider mixed use scheme which includes a Marston’s Pub, McDonald’s Drive thru, Costa Coffee, Home Bargains and St Modwen Homes residential development, and construction is cur- rently underway.
Potential occupiers are offered competitive lease terms on the small single bay units starting at 1,617 up to 21,111 sq ft, built to
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MONTHLY 2025
The area has seen significant investment in recent times following the Government-funded £24.1m Clay Cross Town Deal regeneration scheme currently underway which includes the creation of a new Town Square, the pedestrianisation of Market Street and improved road schemes making access easier into the town centre bring- ing further associated employment opportunities and facilities to the town.
Clay Cross Active, a much anticipated leisure centre and community hub, opened its doors to the public recently which replaced the former Sharley Park Leisure Centre offering a modern, inclusive space including a new 25-metre swimming pool and learner pool with spectator seating, fully equipped fitness and spin studio, large sports hall, soft play and interactive play areas for children and community cafe.
For further information on industrial property availability in South Yorkshire contact Harry Orwin-Allen at Knight Frank
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