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ENTER MATALAN & FARMFOODS SOUTHTOWN ROAD, GREAT YARMOUTH, NR31 0JB Open A1 Retail Warehouse Investment Opportunity Catchment & Retail Warehousing in Planning, Tenure, Investment Summary Location Description Further Information Demographics Great Yarmouth & Situation Tenancy & Covenant Back | Next MATALAN & FARMFOODS SOUTHTOWN ROAD, GREAT YARMOUTH INVESTMENT SUMMARY • Great Yarmouth is a popular Norfolk seaside town, 20 miles east of Norwich. • Over 5 million people stay overnight in the town each year, with tourism generating over £530 million annually. • Great Yarmouth benefits from having a captive catchment population due to its distance from competing retail centres. • The subject property is situated in a prominent and accessible location at the junction of Southtown Road and the A1243 Bridge Road. • The property is let to Matalan for a further 8.75 years at a rent of £389,468 per annum, equating to a low rate of £10.05 per sq ft. • Farmfoods have sub-let circa 10,000 sq ft from Matalan and there is the opportunity to agree a direct lease with them. • The property benefits from having a fully open A1 planning consent, including the sale of food. • The property occupies a large site of 2.9 acres, giving the potential for further development in the future. • We are instructed to seek offers for the property based on an attractive net initial yield of 8.00% (assuming purchaser’s costs at 6.57%), giving a purchase price of £4,569,000 (Four Million and Five Hundred and Sixty Nine Thousand Pounds), subject to contract and exclusive of VAT. Catchment & Retail Warehousing in Planning, Tenure, Investment Summary Location Description Further Information Demographics Great Yarmouth & Situation Tenancy & Covenant Back | Next A Y C A T S U A LOCATION L NDOW E N RO E Q AD N E R E H W T H T S T R R R D Great Yarmouth is a popular seaside resort on the Norfolk coast situated at O E A O T O A A D N N O the mouth of the River Yare. The town is located approximately 20 miles east G R D Y TH A E of Norwich, 54 miles north of Ipswich and 133 miles north-east of London. O R 2 L R 1 O S A GREAT YARMOUTH N E F N U L O L L LE S E The town benefits from good road communications with the A12 linking Great L R E W E H V I I L N Yarmouth to Lowestoft and Ipswich to the south and the A47 providing access L R D H to Norwich to the west. T R T N O AD O E ST EU R N E O R O T N R H M S K There is a regular rail link to Norwich where services are available to London T O T A E I H N E W R G M G K Q R Liverpool Street, with a journey time to London of approximately 2½ hours. A E P RD ET R K O AR U S E M T L MIDDL E D A T E G P Y R S L R M E A O Norwich Airport is located 22 miles to the west of Great Yarmouth via the A47. I T E L A T L R T C REE D T E E S R MATALAN & ENT O E EG T R A A FARMFOODS D P ALBION ROAD S D L R E E Y G D R I G R RE O D Y A B F K A O R IN D I Boston Cromer R A E S R G H S S T O RAFALG D S O W S AR ROAD U T A R U A Y A T R R T L H E D Fakenham M A H E A P E T Q T N R E 2 1 O U T E N A A W N Spalding I Y T S E D N R O I GREAT YARMOUTH D King’s Lynn A C A D R L O E L M A D R O O H R S A R R O E Y N D U Wisbech U O Swaham A Norwich I S Stamford T T D A STER ROA C S E N W A LA T Downham Market A S S S P N E T O Peterborough N R E S O L E J E T Lowestoft N Corby Oundle Beccles Thetford Diss Huntingdon Southwold Newmarket 14 Bury 13 Stowmarket 12 Cambridge St Edmunds 11 Biggleswade 10 9 Ipswich 14 Royston Saron Walden 13 10 M11 9 12 Hitchin 8 M1 Stevenage Braintree 7 11 8 Colchester Luton Bishop's STANSTED 10 A1(M) Stortford 9 6 St 5 Harlow 4 Welwyn 8 Albans 3 Garden 7 Chelmsford 7 1 2 22 City 20 24 M25 25 26 19 5 18 5 17 4 Catchment & Retail Warehousing in Planning, Tenure, Investment Summary Location Description Further Information Demographics Great Yarmouth & Situation Tenancy & Covenant Back | Next CATCHMENT & DEMOGRAPHICS Great Yarmouth has a catchment population of approximately 115,000 Great Yarmouth remains a working port and an important supply base people, making it the second largest town in Norfolk, after Norwich. for the North Sea oil and gas exploration industry. It is home to a 400-company-strong marine energy supply chain with almost 50 years of There is a catchment population of 68,022 people living within a 10 minute offshore experience as the principal base for Southern North Sea (SNS) gas Great Yarmouth is drive time of the subject property, extending to 115,741 people within a operations. Many multinational businesses have established operations 20 minute drive time. in Great Yarmouth, including Aker Solutions, AMEC, Petrofac, Halliburton a popular seaside and Schlumberger. More recently, it has developed into a centre for the resort on the Tourism is an important employment sector, generating around £530 million installation and maintenance of off-shore wind power generation, due to annually for the local economy from an estimated 5 million overnight the port’s proximity to Scroby Sands Wind Farm. Wind power is a sector Norfolk coast visitors and 4 million day visitors. The town benefits from its extensive where significant future growth is projected and Great Yarmouth is already beachfront known as the ‘Golden Mile’ and its associated holiday England’s leading location for offshore energy. attractions. It is also a tourist base for the nearby Norfolk Broads. RETAIL WAREHOUSING IN GREAT YARMOUTH Retail warehouse supply in Great Yarmouth is limited totalling just 320,000 sq ft. The lack of retail warehousing means there is good demand for Great Yarmouth with many national retailers not represented here including Dunelm, Poundstretcher and The Range. As the town is located 11 miles north of Lowestoft and 20 miles east of Norwich, the distance between these competing centres result in Great Yarmouth retaining the majority of the available spend within its catchment population. The main retail warehousing in Great Yarmouth includes: Great Yarmouth Shopping Park - This scheme totals 129,166 sq ft with occupiers including Sports Direct, Outfit, M&S Simply Food, Carpetright, TK Maxx, Poundland, Halfords and Next. Rents on the scheme are circa £25.00 per sq ft for a 6,000 sq ft unit. The park benefits from an open A1 planning consent and is the dominant scheme in the town. This scheme was recently sold for a 6% net initial yield. Investment Summary Pasteur Retail Park - This is a bulky goods consented, 122,000 sq ft scheme anchored by B&Q. Other tenants include Home Bargains, Argos, Pets at Home and Tapi. This park is the only bulky goods scheme in the town. The most recent letting was to Tapi in a 5,000 sq ft unit at £16 per sq ft. There is a standalone B&M Homestore of 35,597 sq ft, a Lidl and a 98,000 sq ft Tesco Extra located in close proximity to the subject property. Staples and Bensons for Beds also have standalone units in Great Yarmouth. Location Demographics Catchment & Great Yarmouth & Situation Retail Warehousing in TESCO GREAT YARMOUTH SHOPPING PARK SITUATION BENSON FOR BEDS The subject property occupies a prominent location fronting the A1243 Bridge Road at its junction with Southtown Road, approximately 1 mile to the south west of the town centre. The property is accessed via Southtown Road off Bridge Road which links to the A12, 0.7 miles south west. 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