Rockingham Park Leisure, Corby
Corby
OFF Developments has won detailed consent for its 75,000 sq ft mixed-use leisure and retail development Rockingham Park Leisure on a key gateway site on the northern outskirts of Corby.
At the heart of the £10m scheme, which is being funded by Dunbar Bank, is a Hilton 86-bedroom hotel.
OFF Developments has appointed local agent Marriott Hardcastle to secure tenants for the remaining 12,000 sq ft health and fitness club, a 5,000 sq ft day nursery and a 7,000 sq ft children’s activity centre.
Birmingham
Prupim has held a special ceremony to mark the official opening of the Witton-based £150m distribution and industrial site, The Hub. The launch also includes the naming of the main service road at the site, ‘Nobel Way.’
The opening coincides with the commencement of operations for The Hub’s third largest occupier; Iron Mountain, which has taken a 63,000 sq ft unit on a 15 year term, with an additional 70,000 sq ft of land available to them. The launch also marks the start of the first major speculative scheme, a 120,000 sq ft unit, situated in a prime location on the Witton Road frontage.
Nottingham
In a venture with Nottingham developer Bildurn Properties, JJB Fitness Club is expanding its brand onto a new 3,300 sq m (35,520 sq ft) site on Victoria Retail Park, a park four miles north east of Nottingham. The value of the scheme is thought to exceed £10m on completion.
The new concept combines a superstore with a fitness club and will

be the first fully comprehensive fitness club for this area of Nottingham. Bilburn has been working closely with Nattrass Giles.
Nottingham
Fisher Hargreaves have completed the sale of two suites on Lower Parliament Street in Nottingham on behalf of clients to Chek Whyte Industries.
The first site, which is a former Texaco petrol filling station, has planning consent for 46 apartments together with ground floor retail accommodation and basement car parking, and has been sold for a price of £1.8m.
Chek Whyte Industries also acquired from P1 MPH Ltd a 30 year lease on premises at 243 Lower Parliament Street for a price of £285,000.
It is understood that Chek Whyte Industries are looking at developing these two sites together with an adjacent site for a landmark office development, the remaining land being owned by Nottingham City Council.
Leicester
Leicester’s largest office development in a decade – the £55m Carlton Park scheme near Narborough – is attracting wide interest even before the first brick is laid.
Infrastructure works at the business park – on the same site as Alliance and Leicester’s head office – have now been completed, with initial building work scheduled to start in August.
The first phase will comprise two speculative buildings totalling 35,000 sq ft.
Carlton Park’s 4.2 acre Forest site was recently granted detailed planning consent, with planners due to give their decision in respect of the 5.3 acre Lakeside area later this month.
When developed, the Forest area could provide a single head office building of up to 100,000 sq ft or a choice of two storey pavilion style office units ranging in size from 2,000 sq ft upwards which will be for sale or to let.
The developers are Carlton Hayes Developments – a joint venture between Miller Birch and Birmingham-based Cannock Developments.