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Fingers crossed for a budget to suit business – watch it live at Lingfield Point »

Thanks to our office space in Darlington, our community now represents over 50 businesses with over 2000 people and we’re waiting in anticipation for HM Treasury budget announcements.

Meadow to host Budget Live!

We’re pleased to welcome Tees Valley Unlimited (TVU) hosting a Budget Live! event here at Meadow, Lingfield Point tomorrow – a fully interactive event with key note speaker – David Smith, Economics Editor at the Sunday Times.

Attendees of this informative and interesting debate will  hear of TVU’s ambitions for the local economy and Mr Smith’s expert views on UK plc’s performance followed by a live broadcast of George Osborne’s 2012 Budget.  We expect a great turnout to discuss this budget and how these decisions will affect the North East and the wider UK economy.

We’re already heartened to learn of the National Loan Guarantee Scheme to support small businesses and we hope to hear more on how this government plans to support business – come and join us and hear it first hand.

Register now at http://www.amiando.com/budget-live.html and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Welcoming Budget Live!

 

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CABE gives the Lingfield Point proposals the Thumbs UP! »

Lingfield Point has enjoyed two recent meetings from dignitaries of the design world.

A group from the Design Council CABE Board visited to tour the site and visit the wool factory buildings which have been recycled into inspirational, award winning workplaces with us being the first stop for office space in Darlington.

They also heard about the first phase of residential development about to begin on site. Last week the Northern Architecture review panel in association with CABE reviewed Taylor Wimpey’s proposed design and were mightily impressed;

The North East Design Review & Enabling Service is the CABE-Affiliated Panel which examines most major developments in the north-east with a view to ensure they achieve the maximum design value and sustainability that is possible, given the project brief.The Panel meets monthly in a number of venues around the region and assess four projects at each meeting. January’s meeting was held at Lingfield Point which proved to be an easy to find location well-served by parking and public transport. The managers of the venue were most helpful in meeting the Panel’s requirements and provided and excellent room and refreshments.

We hope to return when the Panel next meets in this locale. In their proposals for the first phase of residential at the Lingfield Point site, Taylor Wimpey have built upon their track record of pursuing innovative development forms, first seen locally at The Staithes, Gatehead. The proposals include some genuinely fresh approaches to edge-of-urban residential development, commencing with the main approach to the residential development via the existing Italian Gardens with the route terminating in a set-piece square. Other interesting features include a innovative pedestrian dominated “walled garden/route” where residents very much take precedent over the car, and the creation of a landscaped bowl and belvedere in the north-west corner to create form in an otherwise flat site. Overall the development responds well to its setting, is thoughtful and will be a fresh offer on the local housing market.

The Design Review Panel made a number of supportive suggestions which the developer responded positively to and they think the scheme deserves to succeed.

Great stuff indeed! The first new homes at Lingfield Point are planned for later this year so watch this space for details.

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Lingfield Point supports ‘BUY LOCAL’ »

Lingfield Point provides office space in Darlington to over 50 businesses employing over 1800 employees from around the area and is actively encouraging businesses to back the town-wide ‘BUY LOCAL’ Scheme when it launches on Wednesday at its first EXPO exhibition. 

Lingfield Point also practices what it preaches…. its main suppliers and partners come from around Darlington confirming we ‘BUY LOCAL’ where we can.

With its award-winning office space home to some of the most significant businesses in the North East including Student Loans Company, Capita, FaulknerBrowns, Four Seasons Health Care, NFU Mutual, NAAFI and Recognition PR – this rallying call across the business park will certainly encourage support.

Now, thanks to the recently launched, unique space, YARN, Lingfield Point is now also home to an ever-increasing entrepreneurial group of companies that thrive in the innovative support network available in Darlington.  ‘BUY LOCAL’ could really help these new neighbours become established in the local economy

John Orchard, director of owning company, Marchday group plc, says  “Darlington’s business environment is not just a collection of companies in the same location; it’s a dynamic community working to support each other -  nurturing our entrepreneurial spirit and protecting the vitality of the local economy.

Buy local sums up the difference that Darlington can offer business. A great local network of like-minded professionals willing to help you sustain your business and your employees.”  

From small incubator units in Lingfield House to the unique, creative space of YARN with space ranging from 260sqft to single 100,000 sqft floor plates, Lingfield Point can offer you inspirational business space to suit your needs.

Great location, easy access with plenty of car parking and a new on site bus service that can take you straight into Darlington town centre in less than 10 minutes is now a great ‘BUY LOCAL’ bonus.

Visitors feel the place has a real soul due to reusing dramatic buildings with an obvious former life.  This ‘soul’ and unsurpassed customer service combine to foster a real community spirit and culture.   The result is lingfield life -  a friendly neighbourhood with personality, social heart, flexible business facilities and a customer focused approach, designed to help your business thrive.

Lingfield Point is delighted  is delighted to support this innovative way of getting to know your neighbour in Darlington – it echos our own sentiments.

But don’t just take our word for it – pick up the phone on 01325 486486 or come and visit and don’t forget -  buy local.

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Hop on to our new bus service – Lingfield Point to Darlington town centre and beyond »

We’re over the moon to welcome the bus 1/1b to Lingfield Point.  Starting on 3 January, this regular half hour service will call at three stops around our 107 acre business park and will be able to serve our 1800 customers working here.

Our new bus service - 1/1b

Part funded by Department of Transport, this joint initiative between Darlington Borough Council and Arriva means Lingfield Point is one of the most accessible business parks in the North East thanks to the additional buses that also pass the main entrance to our park.  We’re proud of the fact that this now gives us an unrivalled service every 10 MINUTES into Darlington.

The service also offers great value to customers living on the outskirts of Darlington as the extended bus service calls at Cockerton, Heighington, Bishop Auckland, Crook and Tow Law.

You’ll be able to find more information on this fantastic new service by clicking on the about section within this website and then clicking on public transport where downloads of background information and even a timetable is available for download.

When we hear that a weekly out of town ticket costs only £25.50 and that if we all switched to just one journey in 25 from car to bus, there would be one billion fewer car journeys made on our roads!

So what are you waiting for … Hop on a bus!

 

 

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A great plug for our new bus service »

Arriva bus drivers and employees from Student Finance England and NAAFI at Lingfield Point helped launch the new bus link, service 1/1b by introducing a new hybrid vehicle to a 3ft wide electrical plug.

Welcoming our new bus service to Lingfield Point

We’re over the moon to welcome the new hybrid buses soon to be trialled on the extended bus service 1/1b with its new terminus of Lingfield Point. Stopping at three locations around Lingfield Point, this new service will take you into town every 30 minutes.  This, in addition to the regular service running past Lingfield Point, means our neighbourhood is one of the best served, most accessible business parks in the region.

Local bus company Arriva North East will be trialling a new hybrid vehicle on the newly extended 1,1b service from this January.  The current route runs from Tow Law, Crook and Bishop Auckland to Darlington Town Centre and  from 2 January will be extended to Lingfield Point via Darlington College/University, funded by the Department for Transport through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund.

The bus being trialled on the route is a state-of-the-art vehicle which is powered using an electric engine. If the trial proves a success the company will take delivery of 7 new hybrid vehicles in the summer of 2012.

The investment comes following a partnership between Arriva North East and ourselves working with Team Local Motion to champion even more environmentally-friendly means of transport being available to the people of Darlington.

Nigel Featham, Managing Director for Arriva North East, said: “The extension of the service will ensure that we continue to improve our customers’ journey experience, and the testing of the hybrid vehicle is another real benefit for the area. We know that value for money and reliability are very important to our customers, however more and more we are hearing that the environment is another key consideration.”

Councillor David Lyonette, Darlington Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport said ” The Department of Transport funding will benefit people locally and regionally by providing improved access to education as the route now extends past Darlington College and the University, and to jobs at Lingfield Point too, which will assist future economic development. I’m delighted Team Local Motion has been able to secure this development.”

We think it’s great news that this service is being extended to include our community. It is important that our site is well-served by buses, with over 1,800 staff based at Lingfield Point, and a great deal of them living in and around Darlington,  it will certainly make the choice to travel to work by bus far easier.

For Lingfield Point to be served by hybrid buses is very appropriate as it fits perfectly with our ethos of sustainability – and the vision of our masterplan – setting out to make Lingfield Point one of the most environmentally-friendly developments in the UK .

So don’t forget your new year’s resolution … hop on our new bus service …. you’d be surprised how easy it really is!

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Wayne Hemingway speaks his mind! »

Wayne Hemingway in the affordable apartments he designed for key workers in Manchester. Photo: Don McPhee.

Owners of Lingfield Point,  Marchday, are  big fans of the Fashion Trendsetter turned Community Guru Wayne Hemingway. We’re really impressed by the special qualities Wayne’s company Hemingwaydesign brought to the Taylor Wimpey scheme, Staiths Southbank in Gateshead.

Space for people to get together.

The scheme reminded us of much of the good stuff we saw in Malmo, Sweden earlier this year where the design of the space for community interaction between the buildings is given equal importance to the design of the buildings themselves.

We share many values in relation to creating communities, regeneration and design and read with interest Wayne’s recent comments about successful communities in The Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2011/sep/27/people-decent-housing-successful-communities?INTCMP=SRCH

We’re excited about creating the first new homes at Lingfield Point next year and making real the sustainable mixed community around our existing business community. We hope Mr Hemingway would approve of our plans!

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Spin us a YARN and win a ‘Golden Bobbin!’ »

Here at Lingfield Point, we’re keen on Twitter and we love a good yarn.

To combine the two and celebrate the launch of Lingfield Point’s latest space, YARN@Lingfield Point, we’re inviting budding wordsmiths to spin us a yarn on twitter.

All you have to do is write a ‘ripping yarn’ in 130 characters or less and add the hashtag #spinayarn to bring it up to the Twitter limit of 140.  You choose the subject but it needs to be short, razor sharp and to the point. The competition closes on November 11. The Marchday Literary Committee (John and Tim) will then sit to choose the winner and award the much coveted Golden Bobbin. The winner will be announced week commencing 5 December.

The Marchday Literary Committee meet for a good old yarn!

‘Yarn is aimed at small companies who want to punch above their weight and impress their customers. The space is some of the most memorable we’ve created. At Yarn, our customers may only pay for a small amount of space but benefit from the grandeur of all the fantastic communal facilities. We all love twitter and thought it would be fun to run the competition and put the Golden Bobbin up for grabs.’ said John.

Just a few weeks after the launch of YARN more than half of the space is already let. However, there are still spaces of between 250 and 945sqft available.

John tweets as @johnny_niblick, Tim as @timstephen and collectively Marchday tweets as @marchdaygroup. You can follow the goings on at Lingfield Point at @lingfieldpoint or the wonderful musings of @chairmaneddie.

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Strictly Silver – celebrating 25 years of St Teresa’s Hospice »

With over 45,000 sqft of open plan office space all one floor, Meadow plays host to many events, seminars and summits, but nothing quite prepared us for the glamour of St Teresa’s annual black tie ball – Strictly Silver on Saturday night.

Celebrating the Hospice’s 25th anniversary and hosted by Sherwoods, we joined forces with our main charitable partner St Teresa’s Hospice to provide the venue for this very exclusive event.  Over 350 people attended and were served a delicious 3 course meal, enjoyed music from  Graffiti Classics and the Dean Solomon Band who lit up the dance floor till the wee hours in the morning.  Meadow looked respendent in sparkling silver and a great time was had by all – providing valuable fund-raising opportunities for this much-loved, local charity .

We plan a whole host of events, seminars, and working lunches to get our neighbourhood buzzing with activity and this month is no different; whether its free sales training; PR or even specialist conferences dedicated to the development of care.  Our approach is one based on friendship and care whether you’re an individual or business and our relationship with St Teresa’s Hospice is a good example of this.

A full report with strictly stunning pics will appear here soon but in the meantime, we’re now looking forward to planning the festive christmas cracker concert with St Teresa’s Hospice – always a sell-out with stunning performances from a vareity of different choirs in the Tees Valley  – tickets available soon!

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Pull the wool from your eyes! »

In one of the office spaces at YARN

As the number of business start-ups continues to increase, Lingfield Point launches newly renovated business suites to capitalise on demand.Investing over £200,000 Lingfield Point has created YARN, a new business space dedicated to start-up companies and SMEs.

Set on the first floor of the majestic Art Deco Lingfield House, YARN is 10,000 sqft of offices that captures the essence of Lingfield Point within a modern, creative space.Darlington has seen an increasing number of start-up businesses appear in the last year, indicating a growing confidence within the local entrepreneurial community.

We are receiving numerous enquiries for smaller suites, perfect for start-ups and SMEs, which is why we chose to invest in creating YARN, offices dedicated to this area of the market.Lingfield Point is renowned for creating outstanding business spaces, receiving the BCO Award for Best Recycled Building for its Memphis building development in 2009.

YARN breakout area and main corridor

YARN makes the most of the original features of Lingfield House. It blends the usual quirky yet functional interior styling you would expect from Lingfield Point. A threaded corridor, vibrant break out areas and large scale black and white portraits of the site in the 1950s are just some of the features of the new space.

With flexible office suites from 180sq ft, concierge service and ample parking, it’s the latest phase in the £100 million regeneration of the 107 acre site of the old Patons and Baldwins wool mill, now one of the North East’s most innovative business parks.

Launch of YARN - Claire Mitchell Chair of Darlington Business CLub Derek Ross Student Loans Company Seth Pearso CEO Darlington Partnership Pauline Osbourne Federation of Small Businesses John Orchard Marchday

Nik Grewer, Head of Economic Regeneration at Darlington Borough Council said: “We’re really pleased that this space has been developed.  We’re seeing an increasing number of start-up businesses coming through our doors and it’s great that there’s a new space for some of these clients to be able to establish their businesses.”

We see Lingfield Point as a unique place to do business with vibrant, brand new facilities and excellent transport links. YARN offers wonderful office and studio space, meeting rooms and breakout areas, with everything tailored to the needs of the small business owner.

We also offer flexible and cost effective lease deals, removing the financial pressure of being tied into long term expensive contracts.

Some of the major businesses and organisations which have already located to Lingfield Point include FaulknerBrowns, Xentrall Shared Services, Four Seasons Health Care, Student Loans Company and a number of SMEs.

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A right ripping yarn – 16 August from 12noon »

Our latest office space is almost complete and ready for our exclusive preview event on Tuesday from 12noon.

We love the entrepreneurial spirit alive and kicking in the Tees Valley and we’ve developed this space specifically for the excitement that surrounds this type of business.

Lingfield Point's latest office space

Set on the majestic Art Deco Lingfield House, YARN can provide provide office space from just as little as 160 sq ft with break out space; exclusive meeting rooms and a dedicated concierge.  Easy parking, an even better location and great on site facilities – including canteen by alexander macmurray and Little Lingfields Nursery – are already being enjoyed by our 1600+ employees.

We’re looking forward to showing you this fantastic space, but if you fancy a sneaky peak, get in touch on 0 1325 486486 and we’d love to meet you at our exclusive preview on 16 August from 12noon until 2pm.

 

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