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A thriving community

By Gerald Couldrake

Senior Partner

Howes Percival

HOWES Percival have spent nearly a year at our new office in Rushmills. The verdict: we absolutely love our new location, and more importantly, so do our clients and professional contacts.

It is not just the convenient location (and I’m not just referring to the proximity of The Britannia Pub!) which gives great access. It is also because we now feel we are in the heart of Northampton’s business and professional community.

I use the word community deliberately. We were made to feel very welcome by the banks, accountants, surveyors, solicitors and other businesses located in Rushmills and The Lakes. We have started a very successful monthly networking meet on the last Friday of each month at The Britannia Pub, and already connections made there have resulted in new business being contracted.

A community involves goodwill, mutual support and a willingness to help. I have always experienced this in Northamptonshire and the Rushmills/Lakes area is no exception.

Apart from one remaining office building, the Rushmills area’s once-vacant offices are now all refurbished and fully let. It now looks and feels a quality location, enhanced by the refurbishment of the offices fronting Bedford Road. This leaves a real lack of available quality office buildings ready for occupation in Northampton. That cannot be good for the health of our county’s business community. I think there is a real need for land to be made available for office development, if the county is serious about wanting to attract Head Office type employment.

We have seen other locations, notably Birmingham, be much more proactive in making sure there is quality office space available. It is time our county and in particular Northampton became a destination for Head Office developments. Rushmills and The Lakes has shown that is can be done very successfully.

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