Yorkshire Counties West Yorkshire News in Brief


CEG has submitted a planning application seeking to revitalise Drapers Yard on Marshall Street in Leeds for Labcorp, a global diagnostics and drug development company at the heart of life-science innovation in Leeds. It marks further investment by Labcorp Drug Development into the local economy. The company currently operates out of two sites in Leeds and plans to consolidate the team into one building for more efficient, collaborative working, as well as having the opportunity to double in size, retaining and creating almost 300 highly skilled scientific and healthcare jobs in the city. Labcorp delivers vital medical research and has worked on most of the available COVID-19 vaccines and is currently involved in more than 400 studies for COVID-19 globally. The new facility offers an exciting opportunity to offer enhanced scientific outcomes and clinical trial testing, something which has become all the more vital during the current pandemic.


As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic subsides, more businesses will seek to make up lost ground by fixing their disrupted supply chains and securing a high-quality logistics facility in a prime location of the type that has been put on the market by commercial property specialist Onward Holdings Ltd. Family-run company Onward is open to offers for a unit on the sought-after Normanton Industrial Estate in Wakefield that offers approximately 24,585sqft of warehouse space, with significant office accommodation, on the doorstep of the M62 motorway and with a generous private yard area for truck manoeuvrability to facilitate a steady flow of goods. Onward has invested in general improvements at the Ripley Close property, both internally and externally including re-sheeting of the front elevation and upgrading of the main entrance and reception areas. The site is available to lease and additional work will be considered to suit an occupier’s requirements.


DLA Architecture has secured planning consent, on behalf of its client Metropolitan and District Securities (MDS), to deliver a major new mixed-use scheme at Quarry Hill in Leeds city centre.


St Cecilia Place is a new development on the site of the former Quarry Hill flats that were demolished over 40 years ago. The scheme will comprise 352 build-to-rent (BTR) residential apartments along with amenity spaces and commercial units.


Keyland Developments Ltd, the property trading arm of Kelda Group and sister-company to Yorkshire Water, has announced the promotion of Luke Axe to Land & Planning Director. Luke joined Keyland in 2016 to lead the planning team and has been instrumental in maintaining the Company’s successful planning record, bringing forward consents on complex, strategic sites across the Yorkshire region. This has resulted in the sale and redevelopment of hundreds of acres of unused land for new homes and employment space, in turn creating thousands of new jobs.


A brand new, speculatively built industrial warehouse at Kinetic 45, situated in the heart of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Zone, has been let to national packaging company Fenton Packaging Ltd. Joint agents CBRE and LSH acted on behalf of Wesleyan, who purchased the warehouse in December 2020. Knight Frank acted for Fenton Packaging. The high-quality warehouse forms part of the Kinetic 45 development on Newmarket Lane, close to J45 of the M1 motorway near Leeds City Centre, and comprises Grade A industrial space and first floor office accommodation. Kinetic 45 is linked directly by the East Leeds Link Road (A63) and J4 of the M621 motorway is a few miles south west of the warehouse.


Muse Developments’ 15-year regeneration of its award-winning Logic Leeds logistics hub is nearing completion, following the sale of the final two units for undisclosed sums. Work has now started on site to build these units, totalling just over 100,000 sq ft on the flagship £150m scheme.


Logic Leeds, strategically located by Junction 45 of the M1, has delivered in excess of 1.2m sq ft of prime employment space in the last seven years. Pegasus World Holding Group, who already own a 31,500 sq ft building at Logic Leeds, has agreed the forward purchase of a


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61,500 sq ft unit to increase its investment portfolio in the region. The other unit has been sold to Samuel Grant Packaging, a neighbouring Yorkshire-based packaging company who have agreed to forward fund the construction of a 40,000 sq ft building. GMI Construction has been appointed as contractor to deliver the units which are due for completion towards the end of 2021.


A hat-trick of deals has been completed at a prime employment park on the outskirts of Wakefield. Three new flourishing Yorkshire companies are moving into Flanshaw Way, close to Junction 40 of the M1, which is owned by leading Yorkshire property company Frank Marshall Estates.


The Bradford-based developer bought the four-acre site from Flanshaw Property Ltd for £1.3 million last year.


Leftfield Properties has launched Leftfield Park, a two-unit industrial scheme totalling 120,000 sq ft off J32 of the M62 in West Yorkshire and has appointed the industrial agency teams at CBRE and Carter Towler to market the available units. Leftfield acquired the two newly developed units from Gregory Properties at the end of 2020, after having purchased an existing 21,400 sq ft unit at the same location in June last year which has now let to GEOAmey. Fronting the A639, just 1 mile from Junction 32 of the M62, Leftfield Park comprises two new Grade A industrial distribution units of 35,000 sq ft and 85,000 sq ft which have been built to the highest specification. The units are available for immediate occupation.


The comprehensive £5 million refurbishment of an iconic central Leeds building, which was originally the home of Hepworth Tailors, will be completed in July. Wellington Park House, now renamed Tailors Corner, was bought for an undisclosed sum by award-winning property developers Boultbee Brooks in 2018. The building, which is situated on the corner of Wellington Street and Thirsk Row, has been transformed into some of the finest flexible Grade A office space in the city. Eamon Fox, partner with global property consultancy Knight Frank in Leeds, who are marketing Tailors Corner, commented: “Set over seven floors and offering over 25,000 sq ft of design-led Grade A workspace with suites from 1,500 sq ft, we have rebuilt the past and reinvented it for today.


Scarborough Group International (SGI) has commenced works on site to deliver a significant exemplary office building at Thorpe Park Leeds. The 133,118 sq ft building, which is pre-let to leading credit management company, Lowell, sets a new benchmark in workplace design at the park and has a gross development value of £52 million.


Representatives from both SGI and Lowell met on site to mark the official ground-breaking with GMI Construction, principal contractor for the project, just a matter of weeks after funding was secured for the project through OakNorth Bank. GMI expects to complete the building by September 2022, ready for the tenant to commence their CAT-B fit-out works before they relocate in 2023. The pre-let to Lowell was announced earlier this year and represents the largest single out of town office deal ever recorded in West Yorkshire and the biggest property transaction in the Northern Powerhouse region over the last twelve months. Lowell has agreed a 15-year lease to occupy the building and will relocate its UK headquarters from two sites at Leeds Valley Park.


St Johns Centre, one of the largest mixed-use developments in Leeds, has been placed on the market for £33m.The landmark 2.5 acre site in Leeds city centre, which includes retail, office and leisure facilities, is currently owned by the Cromwell Property Group ; who has appointed the Leeds office of global property consultancy Knight Frank to market St Johns. St Johns, which was bought by Cromwell in 2015, features 84,705 sq ft of offices on the upper floors, most of which is occupied by bookmakers William Hill. The betting giant has just signed a new ten-year lease and has circa 1,000 employees in Leeds, including technology, retail support, trading, marketing and creative brand teams. Other office occupiers include the NSPCC.


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