Drakelow Park Group Ltd
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Project Promoter: Drakelow Park Group Ltd Scale: £450m GDV Sector: Drakelow Park Mixed use – commercial, residential and small-scale retail Derbyshire Location: Opportunity Drakelow, Derbyshire The promoter seeks a range of investment including Investment Type: forward funding for identified occupiers, equity and investment partners. Equity, investment partners, including future funding Opportunities also exist to give potential investors opportunities strategic opportunity to shape the realisation of the site masterplan, incorporating commercial, residential Planning Status: and small-scale retail. Further phases are planned with 2017-2032 (Phase 1 is underway) Drakelow Park offering serviced plots for residential and commercial development. This includes the option of drakelowpark.com using associated/owned construction companies. Overview Trent and a nature reserve. Drakelow Park is well connected, lying adjacent to Burton upon Trent in The National Background Forest, and a new bridge will link it to the South Derbyshire is one of the fastest A38 main highway. Adjacent land hosts growing areas in the UK. Centrally located a National Grid sub-station and a large with unrivalled transport links, it is one area anticipated for further employment of the best connected locations in the opportunities in the future. country. The convergence of the A38 and Drakelow Park can be progressed very A50 to the north of Burton upon Trent quickly, with Drakelow Park Group Ltd provides easy access to motorways, while having secured the necessary permissions a direct rail link from Derby to London St and control of land. It has also undertaken Pancras takes less than 90 minutes. groundworks for the enhanced link between East Midlands Airport, the second largest the site and the A38 at Barton Turn. freight handling airport in the UK, is within The construction of the first 99 dwellings minutes, whilst Birmingham International and associated infrastructure has been Airport is only a short distance away. undertaken with all of the units sold. The The area has one of the fastest growing sale of the next phase of land for 94 homes populations in the country and is home to has been completed, again with David Wilson businesses such as Bombardier, JCB, Nestlé, Homes. Discussions have commenced on Rolls Royce and Toyota. bringing forward the Walton Bypass which will greatly enhance access to the site. Project Description Project Promoter and Partnerships Drakelow Park is a new mixed use development in South Derbyshire that will The promoter and principal land owner include 12 hectares of employment land, Drakelow Park Group Ltd is working up to 2,239 homes and two mixed use in partnership with South Derbyshire centres with retail, leisure and education District Council and advisors Hawksmoor facilities. It is bounded by the River Property Services. Derby.