NETTLESHIP Sawyer
has successfully sold nearly 14 acres of land at a former
army camp in Dorset for £1 million.
The land, at Piddlehinton on the outskirts of Dorchester,
includes 17 industrial units with four already refurbished
and let or available for occupation.
The remaining 13 units at Enterprise Park are also expected
to be refurbished by the new owners, an unnamed Dorset company.
Chris Nettleship, Joint Managing Director of Nettleship Sawyer,
the commercial property agents handling the sale, said the
scheme would inevitably result in new employment opportunities.
“This is very good news
and could, potentially, lead to the creation of dozens of
new jobs,” he added.
Enterprise Park is approximately two miles from Dorchester
and is already a thriving business park.
It was acquired in 1996 from Dorset County Council by landowner
and historian Dr Alan Perry. He has spent the last ten years
renovating and managing the whole estate which has now been
split into two sites for the purpose of disposal.
Site A – covering 11.65
acres – is the subject of a separate sale and is offered
as a fully let investment opportunity.
Site B – now sold for
£1 million – covers 13.6 acres. The four units
either let or ready to let comprise 5,215 sq ft (485 sq m)
and have a potential immediate income of £26,144 per
annum.
The 13 units ready to be refurbished have a total floor area
of 14,502 sq ft (1,347 sq m), providing a total potential
income of £104,144 per annum.
The former Piddlehinton army camp played a key role in the
Second World War and is still regularly visited by former
soldiers.
The business park includes a living memorial to hundreds of
American soldiers who were killed when their troopship, the
SS Leopoldville, was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
The GIs had spent just a few weeks at the Piddle Valley camp
before being ordered to join the war effort in France.
Dr Perry planted 802 beech trees at Enterprise Park as a 60th
anniversary memorial to the men who died when the SS Leopoldville
was sunk on Christmas Eve, 1944.
For more information,
please contact:
Chris Nettleship, Joint Managing Director, Nettleship
Sawyer. Tel: 01202 556491
or Andrew Diprose, PR Account Director, Deep South Media Ltd.
Tel: 01202 534487.
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