Colliery owner takes space in ‘business enterprise hub’

MALTBY Colliery owner Hargreaves Services has chosen Barnsley-based Capitol Park for the new headquarters of its industrial services division.

Hargreaves has taken 10,000 sq ft of space which has been dubbed “the biggest office letting in the Barnsley area during the past decade” by South Yorkshire commercial property agent Chris Rowlands, of Rowlands & Co.

Hargreaves industrial services division delivers support services across the UK to the materials handling, power generation and utilities industries.

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Julie Haynes, the managing director, said: “We are absolutely thrilled with our new offices. They are just perfect and a massive improvement on our previous base, which was just a mile down the road.

“We have moved because we needed to expand and because we wanted better facilities and an improved working environment.”

She added: “We have now got 50 office-based staff and have room to expand even further. Although these have been challenging economic times, the company has done well and our splendid new offices at Capitol Park reflect that.”

Gary Cartmell, the chief executive of Sterling Capitol, the developers of the 36-acre Capitol Park, said: “We are delighted that a company of the calibre of Hargreaves has decided to take space within One Capitol Court.”

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One Capitol Court, which comprises 30,000 sq ft of office space, has been developed by Sterling Capitol, in conjunction with Priority Sites. Other tenants are Finance Yorkshire and Kelda, a division of Yorkshire Water.

The Capitol Park scheme also includes a hotel, a pub, provision for a park-and-ride facility, as well as further industrial and office accommodation.

Capitol Park is being marketed by the Leeds and Sheffield offices of global property consultancy Knight Frank and by Rowlands & Co of Barnsley.

Mr Rowlands described One Capitol Court as “a hub of Yorkshire business enterprise”. He said there was still 10,000 sq ft of office available in Capitol Court.

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Earlier this month, miners at Maltby Colliery, near Rotherham, one of the country’s last remaining deep coal mines, were warned of redundancies as a result of serious geological problems at the colliery. It has been in operation for more than a century, but Hargreaves Services, its current owner, is struggling to overcome problems including flooding. The company said it had warned its 540 employees as part of a “statutory process” but added work was ongoing to see if production could continue.

Previously, the firm had said that freak geological conditions at Maltby could reduce Hargreaves Services’ profits in the twelve months to May 2013 by between £12m and £16m.

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