Relocate to North Somerset

North Somerset is an ideal location to live and work in with many businesses relocating here to take advantage of the highly skilled labour force.

The district is an ideal home providing a good work life balance offering an excellent quality of life with its stretches of award-winning beaches and countryside.

An estimated 95% of the population live within five miles of the M5 with the M4 just 27 miles away at Almondsbury.

The district's four major towns of Clevedon, Nailsea, Portishead and Weston-super-Mare are conveniently situated near the motorway junctions.

Bristol is around 40 minutes away by car with London and Birmingham approximately two hours from your doorstep.

High-speed Intercity trains and local commuter trains also link Weston and the district with Birmingham, London and Plymouth in just over two hours.

Bristol International Airport is also located in North Somerset and flies to more than 120 destinations.

For further information or statistics on the area please contact our Economic Development Team on 01934 634 967.

The People To Drive Your Business Forward

Drive Your Business Forward In the Bristol city-region there are four universities, two of which have world-class research facilities, and there is a good supply of high-calibre research and development facilities / services and graduates available. The Universities of Bristol, Bath and UWE, all close by, have a number of 5* rated (RAE 2001 - nationally and internationally recognised) research departments. Expertise is particularly strong in the fields such as biotechnology, pharmacy, chemistry, nanotechnology and quantum computing, applied mathematics and engineering.  
 
South West England has one of the fastest growing economies in the UK with GDP increasing at a greater rate than most other regions, highlighting how productive the region's workforce is. In fact, this is just one of the reasons why the region has already attracted many market-leading companies including HP, Aardman Animations, Orange, Oxford Instruments, Rolls-Royce and Claverham, to name a few.  
 
Some other key facts about the local area are:

  • An estimated 20,000 people within the working population of Weston-super-Mare currently commute to jobs outside the area. The employment space that will be developed as part of the new community at Locking Parklands aims to address this by delivering an attractive place to live and work.
  • Locking Parkland's strategic location with easy access to the M5 means a huge catchment potential of 2.2 million people within an hour's drive time.
  • The Bristol city-region is already attracting a significant number of relocations. It is estimated that an extra half a million people will move into the area by 2016.

For further details of the location of Locking Parklands please download the Locking Parklands Location Map (Adobe Acrobat Reader Document - 273.75kb)

The Right Place at the Right Price

Bristol Airport Locking Parklands has excellent transport connections with the rest of the UK. Fifty-two per cent of the UK's population is within a two hour drive of South West England. Bristol International Airport is 14 miles to the east of Weston-super-Mare, with direct flights to 90 destinations in the UK, Europe and USA.

The development provides businesses with the ultimate flexible relocation options. State-of-the-art modern workspaces will be created to suit your company's specific needs. Buildings of any size, from 1,000 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft, can easily be accommodated within the mature landscaped parklands. All offices will be designed to the highest possible construction and environmental standards. They will also be able to accommodate the latest telecommunications and digital technology. 
 
The site will accommodate campus business units of varying sizes. The Locking Parklands site provides some of the most competitive rentals in the UK for the quality of the location. 
 
Premises will be available for occupation from 2008, along with serviced sites for direct occupier development. 
 
For more information contact Ben O'Connor or Mark Brunsdon at GVA Grimley incorporating Osmond Tricks.