Major new manufacturing park scheme

LOGISTICS park giant IM Properties has started work on a 340,000 sq ft speculative build at Hinckley Park in the Midlands.

The building – which it says could accommodate manufacturing or logistics – is being built at the site close to junction 1 of the M69 in west Leicestershire.

Hinckley Park is already home to DPD, which has one of Europe’s biggest and most technically advanced parcel depots there, and a 532,000 sq ft unit let to Amazon. Some 1,500 people work there.

The new unit – called Hinckley 340 – is part of the final phase of development on the remaining 18 acres and IM Properties said it will be net zero in construction with capacity to allow occupiers to be net zero in operation.

IM Properties development manager Harry Goodman said it will target BREAM Excellent credentials and have an EPC A rating, with solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle charging spaces, and cycle storage facilities. It will also have an active travel plan with buses and a network of cycle paths and footways to encourage people out of their cars.