11.05.04
New Workshop Units for Liskeard

Six new workshop units are to be built on the Miller Business Park in Liskeard with European investment from Objective One.

The project will see an area of currently vacant land developed to provide commercial and light industrial serviced workshop units aimed at start-up and newly established businesses.

The development – known as the Miller Court Annexe – has been put together by local businessman Sean Smith, who also runs the plumbing and heating firm SAS & Trewartha's.

He said: "There's a definite need for more workspace in the Liskeard area, especially for the kind of small business that is at the stage of moving on from the garage or garden shed and wanting to establish themselves in a commercial setting."

Andy Paton, the project's designer, said the land being used for the development is slightly sloping and some site preparation work will need to be carried out before construction can begin.

He said: "We will be starting this spring and the whole project should take around nine months. We'll be bringing in a steel frame structure that will then be divided up into six units with a total floor space of around 280 sq metres."

The project will benefit from around £58,000 in Objective One investment, provided through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Once complete, the units are expected to lead to the creation of nine jobs and the businesses they would house to add around £333,000 annually to the local economy.

Director of the Objective One Partnership for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Carleen Kelemen added: "One of the most important ways of ensuring that the Cornish economy thrives is to provide the right conditions for business – which includes meeting the need for suitable workspace. The business community in every town has its own specific requirements and individual projects like this help ensure that every area has the right ingredients for enterprise to flourish."

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Editor's notes:

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

ERDF is one of our four funds that make up the Objective One Programme, which is making £337 million of investment available for developing the local economy between 2000 and 2006. ERDF exists to:

• Help reduce the gap between development levels and living standards among the regions and the extent to which least-favoured regions are lagging behind.

• Help redress the main regional imbalances in the European Community by participating in the development and structural adjustment of regions whose development is lagging behind, and the social conversion of regions.

For further information contact:

Ian Walls
Objective One Media Relations Manager
01872 223439 / 07973 813647
iwalls@cornwall.gov.uk

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Sue Wolstenholme
Objective One Communications
Objective One Partnership Office
Castle House
Pydar Street
Truro TR1 2UD
Mob: 07973 813647
Tel: 01579 370991

lmroberts@cornwall.gov.uk

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