Hartlebury Trading Estate is looking to further enhance its green credentials with the introduction of electric car-charging points across the 200-acre business park to encourage sustainable travel.
The Estate, located in the Worcestershire countryside, already invests in maintaining the local environment, as well as being the site of a major energy-to-waste facility which reduces landfill throughout the county whilst powering hundreds of homes.
Rupert Jeffries of Collingwood Rigby, asset managers for the Estate, believes that the latest commitment to enhancing amenities at the estate and encouraging green travel for commuters is the next logical step to serve its tenants’ needs.
“Green travel has been a topic that both the management team, and a number of our tenants, have been very keen to advance in recent months, and we’re now looking at installing a number of points across estate,” he said.
“We’ve always had a commitment to the environment; something that might sound at odds with the county’s largest industrial estate, but something we invest in by way of supporting the local gardening group to enhance the surrounding environment within Hartlebury, and by landscaping and maintaining the Estate itself to complement our rural location.
“We’re already the site of EnviRecover, an Energy-from-Waste facility that marks the virtual elimination of landfill in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. it turns 200,000 tonnes of waste every year into electricity, exporting 15.5MW of electricity to the grid which is sufficient to power all the homes in Kidderminster,” added Rupert
“Those tenants that are new to the Estate have been surprised at how un-intrusive the facility has been; often having to have it pointed out to them, and have been impressed to discover the full extent of the power it produces. The provision of car-charging points for the use of occupiers and their visitors is the next sensible step to promoting sustainable power and green travel within the region,” he said.
The first point will be available for use in early 2019.
Harris Lamb and Fisher German are marketing agents for the Estate.
