June , 2001
Expansion move creates new jobs at Gateway Park Lincoln

The Rossendale Group of Lifting Gear Companies Limited, which specialises in the supply of lifting equipment, has relocated its expanding, job-creating Lincoln operation into a new purpose built 6,500 sq. ft factory on Gateway Park.

The factory is almost three times the size of its former unit on Sadler Road, which the company moved to two years ago creating four new jobs. Now the workforce has expanded to fifteen and more jobs and development are in the pipeline.

"Although the move has provided much needed space such is the scale of development that we will soon need a larger base for our Lincoln flagship operation. We have recently taken on more staff, now employ fifteen but need up to twenty one. We see Lincoln, which is an ideal location, taking on an even more important role within the group in future," said Cliff Meakin, Rossendale Group's Lincoln Manager.

The Rossendale Group, a company formed in Lancashire more than half a century ago, employs 121 people and Lincoln was the eleventh branch formed within the group.

"The development has created genuine industrial employment in what is a traditional industry on Lincoln. The position of Gateway Park to the south of the city with its close and easy access to the A46 and A1 motorway network was also a decisive factor for Rossendale Group's choice of location," said Stephen Bradford, partner at Hodgson Elkington, the chartered surveyors who are agents for the scheme.

"The planned dualling of the A46 and Gateway Park's close proximity to the motorway system is certainly a positive factor in the attractiveness of the development, which has been going very well over the past two years. We have six users now on site and twelve out of eighteen acres left," said David Chambers, a director of developers Temple Garth Limited, a partnership company between Castle Square Developments and the Lindum Group in association with Lincolnshire Heartlands.

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