3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:22 PM Page 1 ROOM TO MOVE. The Banks Group DEVELOPMENT WITH CARE H. J. Banks & Company Limited West Cornforth, Ferryhill, Co Durham DL17 9EU Telephone: 01740 658500 Email: bowesfield@hjbanks.com www.bowesfield.com For more information contact: Quayside House, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3DA Telephone: 0191 221 2211 E-mail: tim.evans@knightfrank.com www.knightfrank.com
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:22 PM Page 3 ROOM TO WORK. ROOM TO LIVE. ROOM TO PLAY. ROOM TO GROW. Take a deep breath, and stretch out. Watch your business thrive and expand; your children grow and explore; your life relax and unfold. Welcome to a riverside community of vibrant diversity. A living, working and leisure environment where each complementary element adds richness and value to the others, set in a gentle meander on the west bank of the River Tees. Wake up on a spring morning to the music of the dawn chorus from the 15 hectare (37 acre) wildlife conservation area on your doorstep. Forget the rush hour and walk to work in minutes. De-stress during your break with a stroll along the river or around the conservation area, on the edge of the business park. Bowesfield is more than a development. It is more than a conservation project. It is the realisation of a vision. Your vision, of a better quality of life for all.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:22 PM Page 5 How was your day at work darling? Same old daily grind, or did something happen to lift your spirits? Did you arrive in a good mood because the rush-hour battle had been replaced by a ten-minute stroll? Did you bang your head against bricks and mortar or find inspiration in trees and water? When you had to watch your step in your lunch hour, was it to avoid the chewing-gum, or the wild flowers? Little things, sure, but things that make the difference between working to live and living to work. There is an easy way to get the balance right. Quality of life and quality of service. Contemporary architecture and design in stress-free surroundings. Business at Bowesfield. A WORKING ENVIRONMENT THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:23 PM Page 7 ARRIVE AT YOUR DESK CALM, RELAXED AND READY TO DO BUSINESS.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:23 PM Page 9 THE NATURAL LOCATION FOR PRESTIGIOUS BUSINESSES. Imagine you could give your strategies a breath of fresh air simply by opening a window. Imagine arriving at work every day relaxed, inspired and ready to do business. Imagine your people had more space to think and your business room to grow. The business quarter at Bowesfield offers the perfect conditions in which to make the most of your business and its people. Benefiting from excellent infrastructure and communication links, it is skirted to the north and west by the A66 and the new South Stockton link road, to the south by the residential and leisure quarter to the west by the A19, and to the east by the vibrant River Tees, and wildlife conservation area. This sustainable community features cycleways, footpaths and public transport infrastructure, making jobs here highly accessible to residents of nearby Stockton-on-Tees and Ingleby Barwick. The ecological theme extends through to the business quarter to provide a rich landscaped setting for the 11 hectares (27 acres) of potential office space, ideal as a prestigious location for head office accommodation. Development opportunities for the leisure industry are also provided to make the community a self-serving environment. All offer ample parking in landscaped grounds and excellent access on foot to the adjacent wildlife conservation area and river amenities. Boundless possibilities come as standard.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:23 PM Page 11 LIVING WITHOUT COMPROMISE. The residential quarter at Bowesfield offers the potential to realise a vision of easy twenty-first century living. Room for beautiful homes or apartments filled with natural light and flexible space. Gardens in which kids can play safely, horticultural ambitions can blossom unhindered and a well-deserved rest can be enjoyed in peace and satisfaction. The location is excellent for shopping and socialising, as well as attracting a buoyant market for new living accommodation. Bowesfield is mere minutes from Stockton town centre and Middlesbrough, with Darlington only 20 minutes away, Newcastle, Harrogate, and York only 50/55 minutes away and Leeds little more than an hour. On the doorstep lie the delights of a 15 hectare (37 acre) wildlife conservation area, bordered by the dramatic sweep of the Tees and its picturesque riverside walkway. Where better to wind down on a summer evening or while away a relaxing weekend afternoon? Add the adjacent business quarter and potential for superb leisure facilities on site, and the result is an all-encompassing, self-supporting community that just needs you to make it real.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:24 PM Page 13 Give your customers the space to be themselves, and for their kids to be kids. Bowesfield offers the potential for homes with a lifetime s growing room built into every one. Grass to roll on in gardens and beyond. Trees to climb and riverside picnics to enjoy. The great outdoors to explore. Their very own nature reserve where, if they re very, very quiet, they might see a stalking heron or a singing skylark, and discover a lasting appreciation and respect for the world around them. All the benefits of a country childhood, within easy reach of the city. Up with the larks to look for tadpoles. Then off to the cinema in town to catch the latest blockbuster. New homes, new friends, a new bedroom in which to sleep the sound sleep of someone who s been running around in the fresh air all day (and a bit of peace and quiet for mum and dad too). ALL THE GROWING ROOM A FAMILY NEEDS.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:24 PM Page 15 WORK, REST AND PLAY IN PERFECT HARMONY. Capitalise on a boundless capacity for enjoyment, with leisure opportunities of superb potential. The Bowesfield development encompasses plenty of room for a stunning new leisure facility, set within beautifully landscaped grounds within a ten-minute stroll of the proud, meandering River Tees and its scenic walkway. Just waiting to accommodate the needs of the adjoining Bowesfield business quarter, Stockton community and nearby Preston Farm Industrial Estate, not to mention the leisure requirements of the Bowesfield residents themselves. Excellent infrastructure and public transport links. Beautiful riverside setting. A high quality, inspirational environment for staff and customers alike. The vision and the opportunity is here to create a holistic, self-supporting community: work, rest and play in perfect harmony. We just need you to add the fun part.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:24 PM Page 17 SPACE FOR EVERYONE TO RELAX. ENJOY. DO THEIR OWN THING.
3421 Ro Bowesfield Park Bro 12/3/04 2:24 PM Page 19 Stockton Town Centre A66 Commercial Leisure/Office A688 A689 Newton Aycliffe S Durham A167 A1(M) By Road: Durham (25mins) Sunderland (30mins) Newcastle upon Tyne (40mins) Edinburgh (3hrs) A689 Sedgefield A177 Hartlepool A19 A689 A1185 Billingham A19 A178 6 Hartlepool Bay A1085 A1042 Ingleby Barwick 11 hectares (27 acres) for commercial development 4 hectares (11 acres) for residential development 1.4 hectares (3.4 acres) for leisure development 15 hectare (37 acre) nature conservation area Thornaby Residential Please note: Masterplan is for illustrative purposes only. Area approximate only and subject to variation. A68 A167 A1150 A1(M) A66 Darlington S A66(M) A66 A1(M) A167 S London Kings Cross (2hrs 30mins) A66 Middlesbrough S Stockton S A135 A67 A1045 Teesside A1044 E Airport A67 A19 Scheduled flights to: Aberdeen (1hr), London Heathrow (1hr 10mins), Jersey (1hr 20mins), Belfast (55mins), Dublin (55mins), Geneva (1hr 55mins), A19 Amsterdam (1hr 20mins) Bowesfield A172 A174 A66 A174 A172 A174 A171 Guisborough A173 AN OASIS OF CALM IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL. BY ROAD, BY RAIL, BY SEA, BY AIR. EASY. YOUR WORKFORCE Teesside has a workforce of over 250,000 people. Over 75% of those employed are within the service sector. Teesside has one of the lowest labour turnover rates in the UK. For example Teesside s call centre churn rates are below 10% against a national rate of more than 30%. Across all sectors, Tees Valley labour turnover rate represents about half the regional average and only a third of the UK s. GETTING TO WORK With average journey times of only about 24 minutes, Tees Valley commuters have a far easier time getting to work than their counterparts in most other parts of the country, particularly London. RESIDENTIAL Average house prices in Teesside are less than half the national figure. The region has an excellent range of house types and locations, from coast and country to award- winning town centre living. Few new communities benefit from as well-established an infrastructure as Bowesfield and its surroundings. Indeed it was from Stockton that George Stephenson s railway first rolled out to unite the land. Almost 200 years later, the development is easily reached from Darlington station on the main East Coast line, from where London is just over 2 1 /2 hours away by rail. By road it lies just minutes from the A19 and A66, ensuring excellent links with Wearside and Yorkshire. Teesside Airport is just 6 1 /2 miles to the west and the UK s second largest port is just a few minutes down the river. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO GROW. TAKE IT. SPREAD YOUR WINGS. ARRIVE.