A huge 120-acre industrial and distribution park is to be launched next month following the completion of a key new link road. Hailed as the north west’s ‘largest sustainable industrial development opportunity’, HPARK, in Heywood, is based off the new Queen Elizabeth Way link road which connects the M62 with the town’s logistics area at Pilsworth Road.
It will provide up to 1.45 million sq ft of floor space across six units ranging in size from 39,000 sq ft to 688,000 sq ft, with the potential to create more than 2,400 new jobs. The largest unit already has full planning approval and is ready for construction to begin once a firm is signed up to operate the building.
Developer Russells begins marketing the site next month and has made a number of commitments to support potential tenants’ carbon reduction ambitions - including roof-mounted solar panels, and electric vehicle chargers. Based just nine miles from Manchester city centre, bosses describe it as a ‘net zero industrial development opportunity’ in the region’s ‘manufacturing and distribution heartland’.
