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Harlow Enterprise Zone
Location
Access infrastructure
The Enterprise Zone is centrally located
within the London Stansted Cambridge
Corridor, in close proximity to London, the
south Cambridge and Hertfordshire life
science clusters.
Regional highway access is via the M11
providing easy access to London, Stansted
Airport, Cambridge and the wider national
motorway network. There are good rail
connections with two mainline stations at
Harlow Town and Harlow Mill, providing
direct access to London Liverpool Street,
Stansted Airport and Cambridge. The City
of London can be reached in 35 minutes via
Liverpool Street, the West End in 45 minutes
via Tottenham Hale and Stansted Airport in
20 minutes.
Offer
Harlow Enterprise Zone is one of 24 locations
across the country, designated by the UK
Government, to provide incentives for
investment. The zones benefit from reduced
barriers for businesses, including lower tax
levels, super-fast broadband, and fewer
regulatory and administrative procedures.
The Harlow Enterprise Zone provides three
site specific opportunities.
࡟࡟ London Road South: 20,000 square
metres of ‘Grade A’ office space as well
as a data centre development
࡟࡟ London Road North: 14 hectare
greenfield site available for design and
build opportunities with a focus on the
Med Tech, Life Science and ICT sectors
࡟࡟ Templefields: existing industrial estate
offering SME manufacturing space and
longer term re-development opportunities
࡟࡟ There is approximately 53 hectares of land
available for development
Local authority
Harlow District Council.
Highway and rail services provide
connections to Life Science institutions and
businesses throughout the London Stansted
Cambridge Corridor.
Cluster
Harlow EZ is located within the Stansted –
Harlow Broxbourne cluster.
Proximity to Other Assets
The town has a strong business base and is
already a sub-regional employment centre.
Historically the town has been home to
businesses such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pitney
Bowes and Nortel and today provides around
25,000 jobs for the local economy. The
presence of these employers ensures that
the area has a strong skills base particularly
in life sciences and manufacturing.
The Harlow Enterprise Zone sits in the
Stansted-Harlow-Broxbourne Cluster. Harlow
itself has a long standing relationship to the
Life Sciences sector through Glaxo Smith
Kline facilities at the New Frontiers Science
Park. The Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst
in Stevenage and the BioPark in Welwyn
Hatfield are also accessible. By 2016 the
Enterprise Zone will accommodate the
Anglia Ruskin University. The Harlow Sir
Charles Kau University Technical College,
with specialisms in medical technology has
also recently opened. Harlow also has a long
standing role in the knowledge economy,
including electronics, defence and publishing
alongside its wider manufacturing and
distribution role.
Description
The Harlow Enterprise Zone is being
developed by Harlow Council in partnership
with the West Essex Alliance and other key
partners and was submitted to Government by
the South East Local Enterprise Partnership.
The Enterprise Zone will carry on Harlow’s
tradition for innovation and enterprise through
the creation of a campus environment
for dynamic businesses creating new
technologies and new products, thereby
stimulating innovation and generating
economic growth. Core objectives include:
࡟࡟ The development of two sites to provide
high quality, modern business space
meeting the needs of businesses in the
ICT, Advanced Manufacturing and Life
Science sectors.
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The location of 100 businesses and the
creation of a minimum of 2500 jobs with
the potential to create more than 5,000
jobs over a 25 year period.
Increase the GVA of the West Essex
sub-region through inward investment and
enabling the growth of existing companies
through re-location, expansion and supply
chain opportunities.
The creation of employment opportunities
for local residents.
To unlock and enable easy development of
the Enterprise Zone sites Harlow Council
has prepared three Local Development
Orders (LDOs) which are now approved
and is applicable for planning framework
over the next ten years.
The two London Road sites are being
targeted for high quality modern business
space meeting the needs of businesses
in the ICT, Advanced Manufacturing and
Life Science sectors.
London Road South
London Road North
London Road South is being developed
by Goldacre Ventures, on behalf of the
landowner, Harlow Properties Ltd. The
site is the former home of Nortel and was
the location for the invention in 1966 of
the technology behind
optic cable.
The proposed developments on this site
will comprise the creation of a data centre
complex combined with the development
of a new business park on the remainder of
the site, building on its tradition of innovation
and new technology. The development will
see the refurbishment of two of the larger
buildings on the site, demolition of redundant
laboratory space and the creation of the data
centres on a former car park site.
London Road North provides a
development opportunity – 14 hectares
of
land with planning consent.
The site had a number of ownerships,
However the Council has recently agreed to
purchase land from two of the three existing
owners. This places a 25 acre site under the
Council’s direct control and clears the way
for infrastructure and enabling works to be
undertaken.
The campus will be home to large
multinational companies in purpose-built
start-ups and entrepreneurs housed
within the Innovation Centre; and SMEs
occupying ‘grow-on’ space either directly
from the Innovation Centre or relocating to
the site. Development will be phased over
a ten-year period.
Of the c.20,000 sq m of business space within
the existing buildings approximately 50%
has been pre-let. Data Centre tenants are
expected to move on to the site in mid-2016.
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Funding has been committed to provide new
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roads, power and water supplies, as well as
communications technology to make the site
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An OJEU process to
partner is expected to commence in early
2015. The developer competition will explicitly
seek a partner to deliver a Science Park
and incubation hub within the site alongside
other supporting amenities such as some
secondary retail and restaurant/café provision.
It is expected that much of the development
will be of a ‘design and build’ nature.
However the presence of Anglia Ruskin
University’s Med Tech Innovation
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speculative building of incubation units.
Demolition of outdated buildings, the
delivery of an upgraded power supply and
provision of new and refurbished stock have
commenced on site.
London Road South
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Templefields
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Templefields is an existing industrial estate
of around 80,000 sq m and was part of the
earliest employment development of Harlow
New Town along the Edinburgh Way corridor.
It is next to the Harlow Mill Station.
A new access road will improve connections
to much of the site and create investment
opportunities. This is anticipated to be
completed during 2015. Upgraded broadband
provision is planned and will help raise its
attractiveness to a range of businesses.
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The site is in multiple ownerships and it
is home to a range of small business and
distribution operations. It is likely the first
sites for development will come forward
in 2016 when an operational refuse centre
could be relocated. This will provide an
opportunity to introduce a different character
and nature of property in the area.
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Sectors represented
Growth capacity ࡟࡟ R&D
࡟࡟ 52 ha of land
࡟࡟ Manufacturing
࡟࡟ New facilities pending
࡟࡟ Distribution
࡟࡟ General business space available for Life
࡟࡟ Electronics and Communication
࡟࡟ General business
࡟࡟ Higher education
Life Science workspace type
࡟࡟ New space pending
࡟࡟ General business space available
for Life Sciences activities
Institutional presence
࡟࡟ Anglia Ruskin University’s (ARU) Med Tech
Innovation Centre (Set to open in 2015)
Other amenities
࡟࡟ Local retail services
࡟࡟ Sports club, tennis courts
࡟࡟ Growth Capacity 52 ha of land
࡟࡟ New facilities pending
࡟࡟ General business space available for
Life Sciences activities at Templefields
Sciences activities at Templefields
Delivery interventions
The 2014 UK Government Autumn Statement
committed funds to upgrade Junction 7 on
the M11.
There is sufficient capacity in the short and
medium term to accommodate new business
growth. Longer term inward investment will
be linked to provision of highway junction
capacity upgrade.
Partial infrastructure funding is in place
for London Road North with on-going
discussions regarding sources of funds to
address the current ‘gap’.
Third party landownership at London Road
North will need to be addressed to deliver the
full site. A restrictive covenant placed by the
HCA reduces over time but currently restricts
the capacity of the site.
The Enterprise Zone is one of a number
of initiatives being addressed by Harlow
Council including on-going housing renewal
and additions to the market and also the next
stage of town centre regeneration.
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