Barncoose Gateway - First offices nearing completion
The first workspace in the £13.5 million Barncoose Gateway development, for which Sanders Pepper Smith RIBA Chartered Practice are project architects, is now nearing completion.
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This is an ambitious scheme of office and industrial units which is supported by more than £6.6 million of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) Convergence investment.
The scheme is the largest speculative employment space schemes to be undertaken in Cornwall and involves the construction of five office and hybrid/industrial units on a site near to the A30 and Redruth.
It is estimated that when fully occupied the development will have safeguarded 82 jobs, with a further 171 to be created by 2015.
Coastline Housing, which owns and manages 3,800 homes across Cornwall, is planning to move into this first new office building to be completed.
Carleen Kelemen, Director of the Convergence Partnership Office for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said, “With the shift away from the availability of public sector funding, Barncoose demonstrates the continuing confidence of the private sector to utilise Convergence support and invest in high quality business developments.”
Bob Pepper, of Practical Developments (SW) Ltd which is the developer for the project, said “We are pleased that
Coastline Housing Ltd have chosen to consolidate their offices to the Barncoose Gateway development into a BREEAM Excellent low carbon building”.
The Barncoose Gateway Project is being constructed on brownfield land and is an investment as a direct result of the public sector investment including Objective One funding into the Barncoose Link Road.
Leading local employer Coastline Housing Ltd is planning to move into the first completed new office building later this year which comprises a two storey building of some 1,740 sqm and work has also progressed on three hybrid office/industrial buildings which will be completed in early 2012.