Industrial

Industrial spaces have fundamentally evolved over the past 50 years.

Now home to highly efficient e-fulfilment distribution facilities, flexible multi-tenanted spaces and advanced manufacturing and technology businesses, they are at the very core of innovation and business growth.

With a significant and growing gap between what is needed and space available, we believe that the key to unlocking industrial land is greater private and public sector collaboration. With long standing relationships with investors, developers and the public sector, coupled with our partnering expertise, we help our clients at every stage of the real estate lifecycle -from planning and acquisition to investment, and from business rates to procurement to leases and valuations.

We have over 120 sector specialists based throughout the UK. Our team works with clients in all areas of the industrial, distribution and logistics sector, advising corporate occupiers, landowners, developers, investors and the public sector.

With new trends such as urban logistics and servicing the ‘final mile’, the ‘on shoring’ of manufacturing, multi-storey buildings, the impact of disruptive technologies and the dwindling supply of ‘Brownfield’ land, the industrial market continues to develop.

Industrial spaces have fundamentally evolved over the past 50 years.

Now home to highly efficient e-fulfilment distribution facilities, flexible multi-tenanted spaces and advanced manufacturing and technology businesses, they are at the very core of innovation and business growth.

With a significant and growing gap between what is needed and space available, we believe that the key to unlocking industrial land is greater private and public sector collaboration. With long standing relationships with investors, developers and the public sector, coupled with our partnering expertise, we help our clients at every stage of the real estate lifecycle -from planning and acquisition to investment, and from business rates to procurement to leases and valuations.

We have over 120 sector specialists based throughout the UK. Our team works with clients in all areas of the industrial, distribution and logistics sector, advising corporate occupiers, landowners, developers, investors and the public sector.

With new trends such as urban logistics and servicing the ‘final mile’, the ‘on shoring’ of manufacturing, multi-storey buildings, the impact of disruptive technologies and the dwindling supply of ‘Brownfield’ land, the industrial market continues to develop.

As occupiers across the country continue to look for more efficiency through size and scale in their networks, and with increasing growth of online retail, Big Box logistics will continue to be an area of significant growth.

With our intimate regional knowledge we help to meet the demand in the sector by taking a lead role in the development of new sites and facilities, from feasibility all the way through to land acquisition, planning, project management, leasing and selling.

We advise on transactions of around 10 million sq ft of industrial space each year.

Our involvement however doesn’t stop there though. We take a much more holistic view, advising on the additional support, infrastructure and changes needed to make it all work.

It’s not only about creating new spaces either. We also help to improve the quality of existing spaces; increasing the energy efficiency, reducing obsolescence and taking advantage of development opportunities.

Demand for industrial accommodation is growing but supply is falling, as these locations are being challenged by competing uses. For example with space at a premium and a shortage of housing, the market is seeing many urban industrial locations lined up as potential residential development sites.

This increased demand from differing uses is seeing new trends develop in some parts of the country, such as multi-storey buildings and industrial use alongside residential.

We can provide the advice and solutions to help our clients manage all competing interests.

This traditional backbone of the economy has seen many changes over the past 50 years, but recently technological changes, logistics and ethics have attracted many manufacturers back to the UK, increasing demand for facilities across the country.

These spaces often require bespoke solutions and buildings, which can present a number of challenges. From securing planning permission, to project managing the delivery of new facilities and finding new owners or occupiers we can support the full property lifecycle around manufacturing.

The pressures from alternative uses, regulation and planning means identifying development land presents multiple challenges.

We help investors, developers and landowners to buy and sell land across the country. We identify the right opportunities for acquisition and realise best value through sales on individual plots through to strategic sites.