Offices will enable firms to expand
16 September 2005

Town council given preview of latest proposals for Solstice Park

A new concept to provide small offices and embryonic businesses with made-to-measure accommodation is being planned for the new multi-million pound business park at Solstice Park in Amesbury.

Town councillors had a preview of what is proposed for the next stage of development at Solstice Park when architects gave a presentation to the September council meeting.

They told councillors that the small estate of new office buildings for a "local client" was "unusual, exciting and fascinating".

The crescent-shaped office complex is planned for the southern end of Solstice Park and opposite the larger Aurora complex of two office blocks, which has already received detailed planning consent. The 2.55-acre site will be screened from houses along Porton Road by a wood, which has been planted, and the new small, offices will be slotted into the rising ground.

The architects told councillors that the small office complex will cater for existing businesses requiring a compact, two-person office, embryonic office businesses right up to larger office accommodation. The aim is to allow office businesses to set-up, expand and move to larger premises all within the Solstice Park estate.

Designed to a high quality, it is intended that each office will offer a variety of floor space through flexible interior walls.

The council was told that a new roundabout would be built at the junction of Mills Way and Porton Road giving access to the Sunrise Way estate and improved access to the Amesbury recycling centre.

Lighting would be low-level, non-polluting and there would be a lot of tree planting within the office estate, councillors were told.

A spokesman for Solstice Park said a planning applications for the offices will be submitted to Salisbury district council later in September..

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From the Amesbury Journal

Date of issue: 16 September 2005