The Lancing Business Park started life as sidings and carriage works for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. In the 1960’s when branch line railways and the british railway infrastructure was cut back dramatically the carriage works became redundant.
The land and buildings were sold off in packets as industrial development land and the Churchill Industrial Estate was born.
The estate developed and became home to a wide range of businesses from high tech electrics through furniture manufacturing to heavy steel fabrication.
In 1999, headed by Paul Street, Economic Development Officer at Adur District Council, a business park steering committee was formed. The aim was to develop more of a sense of community between residents of the estate and also to apply funds available through the ERB budget.
A great deal was achieved during the subsequent years including re-branding the estate The Lancing Business Park, funding the re-surfacing of the arterial roads on the park, investing over £200K through the Boundary Improvement Grant scheme, a scheme designed to encourage businesses to improve the outwardly visible aesthetics of their premises, improved signage and a community security scheme which funded regular night time security patrols of the estate.
By 2004 the ERB funds were at an end. Not wanting the see the good work wasted Iain Flitcroft, Managing Director of Manhattan Furniture and Peter Tyler, Managing Director of Finecut International, both estate residents, formed Lancing Business Park Limited. Lancing Business Limited is a non profit making enterprise and was established to form a hub to the business community on the park. Lancing Business Park Limited has continued the administration of the security scheme and committed further investment (with the support of Adur District Council) to a business park CCTV system and number plate registration facility, ensuring that the park is monitored 24 hours a day.
The establishment of this website is another important step forward in the development of a cohesive business community.
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Lancing Business Park Ltd
c/o Manhattan Furniture
Blenheim Road
Lancing, BN15 8UH |
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01903 524300
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