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Bessborough Gardens

Longbrook House

Northgate House

Calodonian House

Windsor House

Mayfield Court

Cobden Street

Venture Place

Blencathra House

Banking

Excel House

Castle Wharf

De Montfort Street

Royal Bank Place

Horsefair Street

Ty Glas Avenue

High Street, Canterbury

Clumber Street

42/48 Market Street Ashby De La Zouch

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856 Melton Road, Thurmaston,Leicester,LE4 8BT,

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Office

Charles House

Heather Court

De Montfort Street

Pacific House

Discovery House

Castle Wharf

Origin House

Green Wood House

Bede Island Business Park

Retail

Grafton Street

Thurmaston Shopping Centre

High Street West Wickham

High Street, Frodsham

Hawley Road

Grey Street

Hood Street

Major Estates

Thurmaston

Bardon Hill

Mill Lane

New Star Road

Warehouse

Southport Business Park

Westmoreland Point

Beveridge Lane

Beveridge Lane 2

Scudamore Road

Mill Lane Industrial Estate

Mill Lane Industrial Estate

Haramead Business Park

Britannia Way

Unit 1 Wanlip Road

Industrial

Wanlip Road

Waterside Road

Goose Island

New Star Road

Unit 1 New Star Road

Beveridge Lane

Thurmaston Boulevard

Beveridge Lane

Melton Road

Barkby Road

Barkby Road

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Introduction

The Charles Street Buildings Group grew out of Murphy Bros. Limited, a civil engineering business created by Hughie and Paddy Murphy in 1945. Murphy Bros. was sold to the British Electric Traction Company in 1968 although Hughie and Paddy retained a number of property companies which had been created to build premises for Murphy Bros.

The Group’s parent company is Charles Street Buildings (Leicester) Limited which was incorporated in 1961 and was named after an office block developed by Murphy Bros. at

Charles Street, Leicester in 1956. The Group has been based at Melton Road, Thurmaston, Leicester since 25 acres of land was developed for Murphy Bros. in 1954.

The Group is now led by Hugh P Murphy, son of Paddy and nephew of Hughie, and comprises Charles Street Buildings (Leicester) and 14 fully owned subsidiary companies which together own over 6,000,000 sq ft of investment property spread across all sectors and throughout the UK. Over 60% of the Group’s rental income is derived from our base in the East Midlands

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and while 75% of the Group’s sq ft are in the industrial and warehousing sectors the rents received are evenly spread across Government, office, banking, retail, warehousing and industrial sectors.

The Group has a Dunn & Bradstreet rating of 5A1 and funds its investment and development activities from its rents received. The Group is therefore well placed to deliver on its commitments and continue its growth in the future.

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Bessborough Gardens, London

This property is let to the First Secretary of

State for a term of 20 years from 24.06.03 and

occupies a prominent corner site at the south-

eastern end of Vauxhall Bridge Road, at its

junction with Millbank. The site offers excellent

views of the River Thames and is serviced by

Pimlico Underground Station, 100m away. The

property is a substantial headquarters office

building developed in 1988 by The Crown Estate,

providing approximately 51,517 sq ft of highly

specified office accommodation arranged over

lower ground, ground and four upper floors. The

property is occupied by the First Secretary of State

and some modifications have been made to the

offices to cater for their own specific and unique

occupation. Due to the nature of their work, the

building is covered with extensive CCTV provision.

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Longbrook House, Exeter

accommodation on ground and three upper floors. Longbrook House is located in one of the main office pitches, at the junction of New North Road and Longbrook Terrace, 200 metres from Exeter High Street and within 5 minutes walk of Exeter Central railway station.

Let to the Secretary of State for the Environment for a 30 year term from 25.03.93 and occupied by HM Revenue & Customs, Longbrook House was built in 1992 and is situated on a 0.42 acre site providing

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Northgate House, Reading

Northgate House was completed in 1999 and

is let to the Department of Environment, Food

and Rural Affairs for 25 years from 28.04.99. It

is arranged over basement, ground and seven

upper floors to a high specification. Although let

to a single occupier it is capable of being multi let

with a configuration around two service cores. Car

parking is provided for 56 cars in an underground

car park which is accessed from Forbury Road.

Northgate House is well located in the centre of

Reading which is the largest town in the county of

Berkshire and one of the major commercial centres

within the Thames Valley M4 corridor. The town’s

proximity to Heathrow and its fast road and rail

links to London have assisted the rapid rise in its

status and affluence with minimal unemployment.

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Caledonian House, Dundee

This property was acquired in 1996 and is let to

the Secretary of State for the Environment for

a term of 25 years from 20.12.91. The building is

now occupied by HM Revenue & Customs and is

situated to the south of the city centre in the heart

of the city’s waterfront development area which is

a short walk from Dundee city centre and also the

central station. The comprehensive redevelopment

of Dundee waterfront provides a blend of facilities

for leisure, retail and business. Close by are the

city’s Science and Arts Centres, the Overgate retail

development and a 103-bedroom hotel.

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Windsor House, Leeds

Windsor House was constructed in 1993 behind

a 19th century facade and was acquired in 2002

from Canada Life Assurance Co. Limited. It is let

to the Secretary of State for Transport on a 23 year

term from 07.03.02 and is now occupied by HM

Revenue & Customs. The office accommodation is

arranged over five floors. The property is situated

next to the Malmaison Hotel, overlooking and

adjacent to the River Aire, and fronting Bridge End

which is short walk from Leeds Central Station and

City Square. Leeds Bridge, which spans the river

next to Windsor House, was built in 1873, replacing

the previous medieval bridge, the original crossing

point into Leeds. In 1888 Louis Le Prince made a

pioneering moving picture of traffic crossing Leeds

Bridge in which Windsor House is visible.

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Mayfield Court, Sheffield

This property comprises a modern office

building constructed in 1991, comprising

basement, ground and six upper floors and

with the benefit of 14 car parking spaces. It is

let to the Secretary of State for the Environment

for 25 years from 01.05.92 and is now occupied

by the Department of Work and Pensions. The

building is of a frame construction with brick and

stone elevations under a pitched and tiled flat

roof combination. It is situated on West Street at

the edge of an established office area, just to the

north west of the main retail pitch of the city, and is

served by the city’s Supertram service, which stops

directly opposite the property.

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Cobden Street, Leicester

Cobden House was developed in 2005 and is

let to the First Secretary of State for a term

of 15 years from 16.12.05. It was developed

for and is occupied by the National Offender

Management Service who moved from other

group accommodation at Haramead Road. The

property comprises community workshops,

training centres, open plan offices, interview

and class rooms and has an environmentally

friendly design based on passive principles of

thermal storage and night time cooling to avoid

the need for air conditioning.

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Venture Place, Liverpool

Venture Place is let to the Liverpool Corporation

for a term of 30 years from 14th January 1984

and was acquired in 1985. It has recently been

upgraded to improve its fabric and appearance

and to secure the serviceable life of the exposed

concrete on the face of the building for the next

twenty five years. Liverpool was European City of

Culture in 2008 and has undergone a transformation

in recent years with developments such as the Met

Quarter, situated opposite Venture House, and

Grosvenor’s Liverpool One.

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Blencathra House, Whitehaven

Blencathra House is occupied by Cumbria

County Council under a 30 year lease from

28.10.97. It was formally opened on 24.09.98 and it

is situated in a prominent position on the waterfront

overlooking the north harbour. The property

comprises a modern three-storey office building

with solid external appearance of brick cladding

and local red St. Bees sandstone. Whitehaven

is a Georgian planned town, one of Britain’s first,

with a grid iron pattern of streets. It has almost

as many links with America as it does with the

rest of England. Rich coal reserves were mined

and transported to Ireland, with this trade in turn

leading to ship-building and a direct involvement in

trade with the newly founded Colonies in what was

to become the USA.

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Excel House, Edinburgh

Excel House extends over six floors, providing

high quality, open-plan, 4-pipe fan coil

air-conditioned accommodation in Semple

Street, The Exchange, which is in the heart of

Edinburgh city centre. 22,000 sq ft are let to

Bank of Scotland for 15 years from 29.04.02 with

the remaining 20,000 sq ft being occupied on a 20

year term from 25.03.01 by MacRoberts, a leading

commercial law firm which has represented the

Group on its interests in Scotland since 1985.

Excel House won a British Council for Offices 2002

Award in the Commercial Workplace section as the

regional winner for Scotland, and is described in

the Awards brochure as “a commercially realistic

but architecturally distinguished building which

makes a real contribution to the streetscape of

Edinburgh’s fast-developing Exchange District.”

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Castle Wharf, Nottingham

Situated alongside the Group’s investment

let to BT, this property is let to the National

Westminster Bank plc for 15 years from

01.12.98. The site continues to be a popular site in

Nottingham as a result of its mix of commercial and

leisure facilities with a pleasant waterfront aspect.

Nat West continues to operate as an independent

bank within the Royal Bank of Scotland Group

which also includes the group’s tenant at Guernsey,

Royal Bank of Scotland International.

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De Montfort Street, Leicester

This development was funded by the Group and

completed in 1999 to provide a new Customer

Care Centre for Barclays Bank. It is now occupied

by HSBC Bank plc on a 15 year lease from 01.11.99

having taken an assignment from Barclays. The

property is situated in an extremely favourable

position with regard to its proximity to the University

of Leicester and London Road railway station. This

facility is capable of accommodating upwards of

800 staff, with 320 designated car parking spaces

on site. The building has been described as state

of the art and has numerous features, including a

large restaurant.

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Royal Bank Place, Guernsey

is situated here at the gateway to St Peter Port, the island’s capital. The first floor of the property has been sub let to Price Waterhouse Coopers which reflects the prestigious nature of the property.

Acquired in 2005 Royal Bank Place is let to Royal Bank of Scotland International for 24 years from 25.12.04. The building is in a wonderful position on probably the best located site on the island of Guernsey. Enter the harbour from the English Channel and the first road along the seafront is Glategny Esplanade. The building

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Horsefair Street, Leicester

This property is a Grade II listed building in a

conservation area and is let to Lloyds TSB

Bank plc for 45 years from 11.08.79. The

substantial Victorian banking hall and office

accommodation was refurbished with extensive

redecoration and refitting in 1993. It is in an

excellent mixed retail and A2 trading location with

a frontage to both Horsefair Street, opposite the

Town Hall, and Market Place South, close to the

junction with Gallowtree Gate, Leicester’s premier

retail location. Other banks and building societies

are located nearby.

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Ty Glas Avenue, Cardiff

This property is let to Barclays Bank plc for 25

years from 06.02.92 as a regional centre. It is

situated on the Cardiff Business Park, where

over 275,000 sq ft of office accommodation

has been developed. The area is served by a

Sprinter light railway which connects with Cardiff

Central Station. The property is 2½ miles north of

the centre of Cardiff, and 2 miles from Junction 32

of the M4 Motorway. The property comprises a

three-storey building with car parking facilities for

62 cars.

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High Street, Canterbury

This Grade II listed building was acquired in

2009 and is let to Lloyds TSB Bank Plc until

2027. The subject property is a traditional

period brick and stone building, constructed

in a gothic style and dating to the turn of

the last Century. The High Street elevation is

adorned with ornamental turrets rising above the

first floor either side of the main entrance, which

leads into the main banking hall. The premises

are fitted out in Lloyds TSB corporate style and

there is an office area and money chamber to the

left of the ground floor.

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Clumber Street, Nottingham

the link to the listed portion, the building is clad in traditional brick and stone materials. Clumber Street is recognised as the fourth busiest street in Europe and is Nottingham’s principal pedestrianised retail thoroughfare, linking the Victoria and Broadmarsh shopping Centres.

Let to HSBC plc for 20 years from 17.10.08 this property was acquired by the group in 2009. It is situated on the corner of Clumber Street and Lincoln Street. The majority of the premises are new build, sympathetically designed to complement the adjoining grade II listed portion of the building in Lincoln Street. Erected over three storeys plus basement with the creation of

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42/48 Market Street, Ashby De La Zouch

This property is a 3-storey development, built by

the Group’s workforce in 1972, with an extension

to the rear completed in 1987. At ground level

the building offers 3,250 sq ft accommodation for

Lloyds TSB Bank plc, a thriving local branch with

ancillary offices. Other occupiers are The Post

Office, a hairdressers and a healthcare centre.

Ashby is a busy market town with strong historic

links, including a castle dating to Norman times.

The construction of the M42 motorway has relieved

Ashby and particularly Market Street, the main

thoroughfare, of difficult congestion problems and

the town has since prospered and, in terms of

value, benefited considerably as a result.

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year lease from 10.01.05. APEX was established as an independent voluntary organisation and registered charity (No. 518081) in 1982 to promote the rehabilitation of offenders. In its first year APEX employed 3 people, had an income of £23,700 and helped 11 people into work. They now employ nearly 80 staff, have an income of £2 million and help around 400 people into work each year, with a further 1,300 clients in training.

Charles House, Leicester

Charles House has particular significance since it was developed by the Group in 1956 and was the first to be built by our founders, Hugh and Paddy Murphy (the Murphy Bros), with assistance from Mrs. Edith Murphy, who purchased the original site. Our parent company, Charles Street Buildings (Leicester) Limited, takes its name from here. APEX Leicester Project Limited now occupy 23,000 sq ft over ground to fourth floors (with parking available in Leicester’s first underground car park) on a 15

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Heather Court, Sidcup

Maidstone Road opposite Sidcup Technology Centre and close to the town centre. The A20 dual carriageway is 2 minutes drive away, with the M25 Motorway network 5 minutes to the east.

This property is let to Fujitsu Services Limited for 25 years from 07.11.94, having taken an assignment from International Computers Limited, to whose requirements the building was constructed. As a result it benefits from a particularly high specification. It is arranged on 3 floors and there are 96 car parking spaces. Heather Court occupies a prominent position on

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De Montfort Street, Leicester

Acquired in 1998 and let to National Grid Gas

plc for a term of 15 years from 24.06.98 this

property is situated in the heart of Leicester at De

Montfort Business Park. The property is a 5 minute

walk from Leicester train station and from Welford

Road, the home of Leicester Tigers. It is next door

to premises owned by the Group and occupied by

HSBC Bank plc.

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Pacific House, Warrington

The group bought Pacific House in 1999 from

HBG Properties, who developed this highly

successful business park near Warrington. The

property is let to Air Miles Travel Promotions

Limited, part of British Airways, for 25 years from

13.05.99. It is a high quality three-storey purpose

designed office build with 183 car parking spaces.

It has a capacity for over 700 employees, with the

benefit of restaurant, dance and fitness studio and

a nursery for up to 65 children. Other occupiers

at Birchwood Point include United Utilities, The

Environment Agency and English Partnerships.

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Discovery House, Norwich

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Now let to Aviva Life & Pensions Limited on a 25

year term from 01.10.92 this property is located

at the Norwich Business Park, Norwich, where

the group also owns Partnership House, let to

Tribal Education Limited. Discovery House was

constructed in 1992 and has the benefit of 90 car

parking spaces on a site of 1.165 acres. Norwich

Business Park is located approximately 1½ miles to

the south of the city centre and is readily accessible

within a 2-minute drive time from the city’s southern

bypass.

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Castle Wharf, Nottingham

listed building, with its historic architecture and waterfront views, was long established on the site. Other occupiers include the club chain, Via Fossa, and Mansfield Breweries have a large modern public house facility. The mix of commercial and leisure facilities with a pleasant waterfront aspect attracts people to the site outside normal working hours.

Situated below Nottingham Castle, the group funded and retains the investment of this development let to British Telecommunication plc for 15 years from 24.06.99. The group also owns a second building let to National Westminster Bank plc. The scheme forms part of a larger development in which the Nottingham Post Group relocated to a new headquarter building, and the British Waterways Grade II

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Origin House, Runcorn

Origin House is let to Atos Origin UK Limited

under a 25 year lease from 25.03.98. It is

prominently situated at the gateway to the

highly successful Manor Park, just two miles from

Junction 11 of the M56 motorway, and a 25-minute

drive away from Manchester Airport. Atos Origin

UK Ltd, the international full-service IT solutions

integrator, is part of the Philips multinational group,

and occupies this three-storey self-contained

building, with 264 car parking spaces on site.

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Green Wood House, Runcorn

cars. The property is prominently situated at the Gateway to the highly successful Manor Park just 2 miles from Junction 11 of the M56 Motorway and close to Origin House, also owned by the group and occupied by Atos Origin.

Green Wood House is a detached two-storey office building, constructed in 1999, with double height entrance and appealing reception area. It is let to Atos Origin UK Limited for 21 years from 06.11.01. The premises are particularly well specified with a site area of 2.2 acres and designated parking spaces for 100

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Bede Island Business Park, Leicester

Oval Group bought insurance broker and risk

management firm, Bland Bankart, in April

2004 in a deal worth £22 million, and in doing

so became the tenant of this property which

was completed in 2000 and is let on a 16 year

lease from 22.12.00. The property is located

on the successful Bede Island Business Park

development, adjacent to the River Soar and

Western Boulevard. The development is within

walking distance of Leicester’s city centre and

close to De Montfort University. Bede Island

benefits from easy access to the A47 and A46,

which provides a fast link to Junction 21 of the

M1. The location has been considerably enhanced

recently by the development of offices, restaurants,

pubs, student and residential accommodation, and

an attractive park adjoining the site. Recent road

improvements, including a new bridge over the

river, have enhanced access to and from the site.

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Grafton Street, Dublin

Acquired in 2010 this property is let to high end

jewellery retailer Boodles for 25 years from

24.06.05. It is situated on the corner of Grafton

Street, Ireland’s premier retail street, and Harry

Street in the heart of Dublin and close to the

Westbury Hotel. The property is of late nineteenth

century construction but underwent significant

improvement works on Boodles becoming the

occupier in 2005.

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Thurmaston Shopping Centre, Leicester

The Thurmaston Shopping Centre is located

on the north side of Leicester and benefits

from a large catchment area. It has excellent

highway links to Leicester city centre, the larger

north Leicestershire towns of Syston, Birstall,

Loughborough and Melton Mowbray, and is less

than ten minutes drive time from the M1. The

centre has the benefit of unrestricted A1 planning

consent and all of the retailers’ requirements

for additional mezzanine floor space have been

achieved bringing the total available retail floor

space to approximately 175,000 sq ft.

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The centre was completed in 2005 and was built

on the site of a former 82,000 sq ft trend centre

facility developed for Leicestershire Co-operative

Society Limited in 1973. An existing McDonalds

outlet and a store constructed for Dunelm in 2001

were incorporated into the redevelopment. As well

as McDonalds and Dunelm the occupiers at the

centre now comprise:-

SportsDirect.com, Boots, Outfit (Burton, Dorothy

Perkins, Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Wallis and

Warehouse), Next, TK Maxx, M&S Simply Foods,

O2, Carphone Warehouse, Pizza Hut, Blacks

Outdoor, Bathstore.com, Claire’s Accessories,

Starbucks Coffee Company.

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High Street, West Wickham

This property is let to Sainsburys Supermarket

for 25 years from 05.05.06 following a surrender

from the previous tenant, Safeway, now owned

by Morrisons. West Wickham lies in the north-west

corner of Kent and is part of the London Borough

of Bromley. The West Wickham Residents’

Association referred to the new Sainsbury’s as

“A bright new store, a significant presence on the

High Street.” The total refurbishment of the West

Wickham store including fit out costs amounted to

just over £3million.

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High Street, Frodsham

Originally developed by the Group in 1991

this property is now let to Wm Morrison

Supermarkets plc under the original lease of 35

years from 21.05.91. The property was originally

occupied by Gateway and then the Co-op before

the assignment to Morrisons. Frodsham is situated

in the shadow of Frodsham Hill in the county of

Cheshire. It is well located near Junction 12 of

the M56, has a railway station on the Chester/

Manchester route and is within easy reach of

Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester airports.

The subject property is the only supermarket in

Frodsham.

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Hawley Road, Hinckley

Constructed in 1986 and previously occupied

by Somerfield this property was assigned in

2008 to Tesco Stores Limited for 35 years from

28.04.87. The store is a 24 hour facility which also

includes a petrol filling station and features Tesco’s

clothing range and photo processing. The store

has created more than seventy new jobs and is well

located at a gateway site in Hinckley, adjacent to

the train station.

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Grey Street, Newcastle

Previously occupied by Waterstones this

property is now occupied by Swedish clothing

retailer Hennes & Mauritz, universally known

as H&M, for 35 years from 28.05.80. H&M have

gone to great lengths to ensure that the integrity

of the building, which is grade II listed in a classic

flamboyant Italian style, is in sympathy with their

brand and signage. The property is situated in

Grainger Town, the historic part of Newcastle-

upon-Tyne, based around the classic streets built

by Richard Grainger in the 1830s and 1840s. Grey

Street is a Georgian masterpiece once described

by architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as

“one of the best in England”.

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Hood Street, Newcastle

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Let to Hervia Limited for 15 years from

01.05.03 this property was assigned by The

Universal Building Society in 2007. The current

tenant, Hervia Limited, is the UK’s leading retailer

of Vivienne Westwood products and has a

comprehensive selection of Vivienne Westwood

clothing and accessories within all of their franchise

stores. Newcastle upon Tyne is a vibrant city where

retailers have done particularly well and this was

the fourth Vivienne Westwood to open in the UK.

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Thurmaston Industrial Estate

Thurmaston Industrial Estate is around 25 acres

in size and has been the home of the Group since

the 1950s. It was initially developed to provide

warehousing and industrial units for Murphy Bros.

Limited and thereafter formed the basis of Group’s

expanding activities as an investment commercial

landlord. The Estate is now in the process of being

redeveloped. Previous occupiers have included

Walkers Crisps and discussions are ongoing with

prospective tenants.

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Bardon Hill Industrial Estate

Bardon Hill is located just off the A50 close

to J22 of the M1 and provides approximately

820,000 sq ft of industrial and warehousing

accommodation. Development commenced in the

late 1980s and continued until 2004. A small area

of land remains to be developed as appropriate.

Occupiers include DHL, Widdowsons, James

McNaughton Paper and Metzeler Automotive.

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Mill Lane Industrial Estate

Mill Lane is located in the Glenfield area on the

outskirts of Leicester and is a couple of minutes

drive from J21A of the M1. The Estate provides

approximately 580,000 sq ft of accommodation

which is predominantly occupied as warehousing

or for logistics. The largest occupier is A M

Widdowson & Son who have been based here

since the 1970s but other occupiers include TNT

and Warren Board.

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New Star Road Industrial Estate

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New Star Road Industrial Estate comprises

properties at New Star Road itself, and Wenlock

Way.

It is situated on the northern outskirts of Leicester

with easy access to the A46 and from there the M1.

It provides more than 525,000 sq ft of industrial

accommodation constructed in the late 1970s

and early 1980s. Occupiers include Taylor Hobson

Holdings and LPC (UK) Limited.

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Southport Business Park, Southport

The group funded and retained the investment

in this development which is let to the Post

Office at Southport Business Park for a term of

20 years from 24.06.00, where they relocated from

the town centre, and fitted out the building at a cost

of over £850,000. The building is operated as a

sorting office and accommodates in excess of 200

staff. Other occupiers on the park include United

Automation and 360 Atlantic Network.

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Westmoreland Point, Bardon

M42 motorways, with East Midlands airport a 25-minute drive away. Widdowsons occupy 400,000 sq ft in premises developed and owned by the Group at Glenfield on the western side of Leicester, less than 5 minutes drive from Junction 21A of the M1 motorway, in addition to the facility at Bardon.

The Group funded and retained the investment in this purpose-built logistics centre for the Widdowson Group on a 20 year lease term from 25.03.02. This facility was built on land in the ownership of the Group and forms part of a 60 acres estate at Hilltop Estate, Bardon. The site is particularly well-located in the distribution “golden triangle” bounded by the M1, M6 and

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Beveridge Lane, Bardon Hill

Let to DHL Express (UK) Limited for a 25 year

term from 14.09.92 this property was developed

by the Group in 1992. DHL took over the lease in

2004 as part of its take over of Securicor Omega

and is a leading provider of contract logistics

and network distribution services in the UK, with

turnover of £450 million and 3,500 employees.

Today, the company operates as part of the

worldwide DHL organisation that is powering the

revolution in the global logistics industry.

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Beveridge Lane, Bardon Hill

The Group funded and retained the investment

on a distribution logistics centre for the James

McNaughton Paper Group (gm2) in a purpose-

built unit of 203,000 sq ft which is let on a 25 year

term from 29.11.96. This site has the capacity

to accommodate future growth and expansion for

gm2. The company, founded in 1979 by James

McNaughton, has a dynamic record of growth,

and now has a turnover approaching £200m.

gm2 plans to provide the very best quality and

service allied to the widest choice of products to

their customers across the whole paper spectrum.

gm2 chose Hilltop Estate Bardon, after a wide and

intensive search, on the over-riding consideration

of its excellent location for distribution throughout

the country.

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Scudamore Road, Leicester

Developed by the Group’s workforce this

property is let to the Widdowson Group for

18 years from 01.03.04. The property is a high

bay warehouse at Scudamore Road, south-west

Leicester. The site was originally developed

in 1970 for United Carriers, a national logistics

operation that later became Geodis. That facility

was demolished and the new warehouse has an

eaves height of 12 metres and total height of 14.5

metres, to meet modern-day requirements. The

sprinkler system covers the entire building and

there is also an in-rack system. The building is

served by a marshalling area where vehicles back

on to six electrically-operated hydraulic loading

docks. Scudamore Road is situated within one

mile of Junction 21A of the M1 motorway as well

as Widdowson’s headquarters at Mill Lane Estate,

Glenfield.

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Mill Lane Industrial Estate, Glenfield, Leicester

Widdowson Group occupy 400,000 sq ft at

the Group’s Mill Lane Industrial Estate in

Glenfield, Leicester which acts as Widdowsons

headquarters. The Group’s relationship with

Widdowsons has continued for almost 40 years

and is not due to expire until at least 2029. Mill

Lane Industrial Estate is a 5 minute drive from

junction 21A of the M1. It was developed by the

Group predominantly in the late 1960s and early

1970s although a 150,000 sq ft H block unit was

developed for Widdowsons in 1998.

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Mill Lane Industrial Estate, Glenfield, Leicester

This property was developed by the Group and

is occupied by TNT UK Limited who commenced

occupation in 1994. TNT formerly occupied other

Group premises at New Star Road between 1977

and 1999. The property contains sophisticated

mechanical handling equipment to improve their

operations and is used by TNT’s Fashion Group

which is the market leader in retail warehousing

and distribution, dedicated to providing for the

specialist needs of retailers and their suppliers

by storing and distribution hanging garments and

boxed goods throughout the UK and Europe.

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Haramead Business Park, Leicester

until 2023. Founded in 1971 by a group of footwear manufacturers in order for them to dispose of their seconds, Shoezone (formerly Bensonshoe) was acquired by the Smith family in 1980 with an annual turnover of £1.6 million. Today, Shoezone has over 440 branches and an annual turnover exceeding £113 million.

Shoezone Ltd occupies 210,000 sq ft in five of the Group’s premises at Haramead Business Park in Leicester having taken over space vacated by the National Offender Management Service on the completion of 2 Cobden Place. At present, Shoezone’s commitment expires in 2016 although agreement has been reached for the construction of a purpose built cross dock link facility which will extend Shoezone’s square footage to 240,000 sq ft and their commitment

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Britannia Way, Thurmaston,Leicester

Let to Nelsons for Cartons & Packaging Limited

for 10 years from 24.04.08 this property was

developed by the Group in 1984 and is situated

on land separated from our headquarters by the

A607. Nelsons was started by the Colemans as a

family business in 1935, supplying wooden crates

and, during the war years, packaging for munitions.

Under its third generation Chairman, Paul Coleman,

Nelsons specialised in corrugated packaging

systems and supplying the shoe and knitwear

trade. These traditional industries that were once

the major businesses in Leicester have now been

replaced and, under the current MD, Gary Mason,

the business has taken a new direction in industrial

and food packaging.

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Unit 1 Wanlip Road,Syston, Leicester

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Let to Lemonpath Limited for 5 years from

01.03.06 this property was developed by the

Group in 1971 as part of Wanlip Industrial Estate.

Lemonpath are a contract packing and logistics

operation, who occupy an additional 75,000 sq

ft of the Wanlip Estate. Lemonpath’s services

include a full pick and pack facility for all the major

retail and grocery stores, container de-stuff and

same day palletized despatch, hanging garment

storage, despatch and short and long term storage

as well as quality control and inspection work with

palletised distribution to the UK and Europe.

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Wanlip Road, Syston, Leicester

In 2000 the group’s workforce completed the

refurbishment of this building which is let to

International Lift Equipment Limited until 2015.

International Lift Equipment Ltd employs over 100

people with a variety of skills to meet the many

requirements and sections in lift manufacture. The

mechanical, electrical and electronic departments

produce the highest quality of materials to satisfy

demand, backed by a team of research and

development engineers. ILE has outlets in Europe,

America, Africa and Australia.

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Waterside Road, Leicester

Let to ADR Accident Repair Centres Limited

on a ten year term from 19.11.07 this property

was developed by the Group on a speculative

basis in 2007. ADR are based in Chesterfield and

operate out of nine centres based chiefly in the

north, including Nottingham, Derby, Macclesfield,

Rotherham, Pontefract and Northampton. They

employ over 380 technical and support staff and

apprentices including the IT, administration and

accounts sections. At Leicester, ADR have invested

in three spray booths and employ 24 people across

many skills sets. At this site the panel team also

strip and refit the vehicles. Leicester is the only

ADR centre to run its own service and MOT Centre

alongside their usual body repair business.

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Goose Island, Leicester

This 4 acre site is let to Nationwide Accident

Repair Services plc on a 25 year lease from

31.03.98. The site was purchased from an

existing director, Mrs. Edith Murphy, in the early

days of the Group and was formerly low-lying

fields that were subject to extensive flooding

which, in severe winter periods, meant that the

area could be used by hundreds of people for

ice-skating. Leicester Power Station was close

by and the material from that site was tipped at

Aylestone Road to take the area out of the flood

plain. Buildings were then erected by the Group

and leased to British Telecommunications, who

eventually vacated to make way for redevelopment

after a period of 42 years. The site is an island

location with boundaries of the River Soar and

Grand Union Canal. Geese have always frequented

this site and are an extremely popular attraction to

the locals, especially children, who feed and take

great interest in them. The site is known throughout

Leicester as Goose Island.

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New Star Road, Leicester

Constructed in 1981 and spread over three units

measuring equipment manufacturer Taylor

Hobson Holdings is the tenant over more than

175,000 sq ft until 2080, at full market rents. In

2004 Taylor Hobson was acquired by Philadelphia-

based group Ametek in a £51 million deal. Taylor

Hobson currently employ 230 staff, manufacturing

their hi-tech precision instruments, capable of

measuring the shape and finish of surfaces to the

sub-nanometre.

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Unit 1 New Star Road, Leicester

This property is let to LPC UK Limited which was

established in 1980 and is now Britain’s largest

independent manufacturer of specialist paper

products. They can create up to 3 million toilet rolls

per day and control a third of the UK’s £300 million

soft tissue market. LPC also occupy premises at

Menzies Road and Thurmaston Industrial Estate.

The involvement of the Tejani family with whom

the group has been associated for over 30 years

has now ended following the acquisition of LPC by

Sofidel, an Italian manufacturer.

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Beveridge Lane, Bardon Hill

This property was constructed by the Group in

1986 and let to Schlegel (UK) Ltd, now known

as Metzeler Automotive Profile Systems.

In the 1880s in Rochester, New York Charles

Schlegel started making fabric trims for horse-

drawn carriages and subsequently the automotive

industry, when Schlegel invented and patented a

woven wire carrier which, formed into a ‘U’ shape,

allowed door seals to be clipped onto the flange

of the vehicle door aperture. This property was

constructed to enable rubber processing and the

majority of manufacturing takes place at Bardon.

This operation supplies mainly UK manufacturers

Rover, Honda, Jaguar, Ford, Nissan and Toyota,

with exports to Saab and Volvo.

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Thurmaston Boulevard, Leicester

460 Thurmaston Boulevard 480 Thurmaston BoulevardConstructed by the Group in 1986 this

property is now let to Premier Foods

Group Limited for a period of 10 years from

03.02.06. The property is a bakery and is used

primarily as a manufacturing base for Hovis

branded breads.

This property is let to Nylacast Limited,

who also occupy premises owned by

the group at Barnabas Road, Leicester.

The property was constructed in 1987 by

the Group’s workforce and is used for the

manufacture of self-lubricating cast nylon

materials and components for a wide range of

industries, including construction, oil and gas,

pharmaceutical, food processing, rail, utilities

and automotive.

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Beveridge Lane, Bardon Hill

Let to Board 24 Limited on a 25 year term from

01.06.93 this property was a purpose built

facility for the production of one of the widest

ranges of board grades in the market place,

including an extensive range of heavy duty double-

wall board, light clay coated board and other

specialist products. Total co-ordination between

sales administration and production planning takes

place at the customer service centre at Hilltop

Estate, Bardon.

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Melton Road, Leicester

throughout. New aluminium double-glazed windows and entrances to both buildings have added prestige to their frontage. William Freer employs 50 trained mobile engineers, operating mainly within a 25-mile radius. A further 14 employees work in administration at the Melton Road head office.

This property was constructed in 1970 and is occupied by plumbing and heating engineers William Freer Ltd. The adjoining premises at 370 Melton Road are occupied by Freer’s sister company, Duplus Architectural Systems Limited, providing synergy and additional space for ease of operation between the units. A recent refurbishment included complete new systems for the offices, with heating and lighting

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Barkby Road, Leicester

SPS Technologies Ltd (T.J. Brooks Division)

occupy this building under a 25 year lease

from 12.01.87 and is one of 400 UK companies

involved in the Airbus A380 “super-jumbo”, which

can carry up to 840 people. SPS make speciality

fasteners, assemblies and precision components

for commercial and military aircraft, automotive,

rail, trucks, and farm and construction equipment

and industrial machinery and equipment.

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Barkby Road, Leicester

industry. Sustained investment in state-of-the-art technology ensured that the company established itself as one of the leading high-quality print companies in the country.

Greenshires have been in occupation of this property since its construction in 1985. Greenshires operates from premises in Leicester, Kettering and London and they offer customers one of the widest range of services available in the print, point-of-sale and publishing

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