The UK Government has awarded Silverstone Park ‘Enterprise Zone’ status which could save companies locating to the high-tech business estate more than £250,000 in rates relief across the next five years.
The status was approved following a successful bid to Government by Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP) and Silverstone Park developer MEPC.
Reaction Engines have submitted a planning application for a 1,700sqm (18,000 sq.ft) production office and rocket testing facility at Westcott Venture Park…more details to follow.
MEPC has completed its latest speculative development of 125,000 sq ft of industrial units at Silverstone Park on time and on budget. The units range in size from 5000 sq ft to 30,000 sq ft under one roof and 50% of the scheme is already under offer.
The HQ-style industrial units provide a blank canvass, ready for an occupier’s bespoke fit-out. They stand in newly landscaped campus style facilities, opposite the main entrance to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit…
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Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP) and partners, are delighted with this week’s announcement that The UK Space Agency is investing £4.12m in a National Propulsion Test Facility at Westcott, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, giving the UK a new facility for space technology testing.
The area around Silverstone is home to significant business activity across the field of high performance technology and motorsport (HPTM). This displays many of the attributes of an adaptive and knowledge rich cluster. Some HPTM firms are very high profile. However, many more are nested within motorsport supply chains and/or, increasingly, developing products, services and know-how across the spectrum of high performance technology. For some firms, there is little or no apparent link to motorsport. However there is a heritage and a specialist labour market that is shared…
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Westcott on a mission to Jupiter – Sunday Times – June 2016 The fate of NASA’s ambitious attempts to put a probe into orbit around Jupiter, depends on an engine built by a father-and-son team from Buckinghamshire. The engine assembled…
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Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP) successful bid to secure Enterprise Zone status last week, for three strategic sites in the Aylesbury Vale area, will result in wide ranging business benefits to the county.
Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP), is delighted to announce it has successfully secured Enterprise Zone status for three strategic sites in the Aylesbury Vale area at Silverstone, Westcott Venture Park and Arla/Woodlands.