Eastern Approach

Denton, Manchester

Purchaser / Tenant

A 90,000 Ft² (8,361 M²) Warehouse with offices constructed for local company; Qualtex Ltd; the UK's largest distributation of vacuum bags and domestic appliance spares, Qualtex purchased the building freehold. Construction completed in October 2003. The remaining land was sold to Castlewood Developments in June 2003, who carried out further industrial development on the site.

Address

Unit 1, Denton Hall Farm Road, Off Windmaill Lane, Denton, Manchester M34 2SX

The Development

The site comprises 9.3 acres of land located at the junction of Windmill Lane and Denton Hall Farm Road and is very close to Junction 24 of the M60 Manchester orbital motorway, which is also a junction with the M67 heading east, providing a transpennine link via the A628. Outline Planning Permission was granted in September 2002 for B1, B2, B8 industrial / office development and in December 2002 Reserved Matters Approval was granted for a 90,000 Ft² (8,361 M²) industrial unit including 2,500 Ft² of first floor offices on the frontage of the site.

Specification

• The warehouse is 9 metres clear height to underside of steel frame at haunch level together with provision for office and staff facilities.
• The development includes a tarmacadam surfaced car parking area for 51 cars and a concrete service yard area for manoeuvring HGV vehicles and parking bays for HGV vehicles. Other external works shall include landscaping, a sprinkler system water storage tank and pump house and security fencing to the perimeter of the site.
• The slab in respect of the industrial area is designed to sustain a minimum uniformly distributed superimposed loading of 50 KN/m2 UDL, and to accommodate 6 tonne individual leg loads on base plates with a loaded area of 188mm x 100mm for back-to-back racking.
• Structural steel frame with cladding to external walls. Blockwork dado wall to internal face.
• Includes 5 No. loading bay doors and 2 No. dock levellers.
• A gas fired low pressure hot water radiator heating system to all rooms located within the offices, packing rooms and ancillary accommodation.
• comfort cooling system to all occupiable offices
  on the first floor plus the reception area on the ground floor.

Floor Areas

90,000 Ft² 8.361 M²

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