Projects
A large-scale 50:50 joint venture where GPD provides full project and financial management, with a initial project value of approximately £70m.The total site covers 250 acres and includes a main line rail connection.
The scheme was taken through every stage in-house. Early utility engagement came first — securing power and connections before they could become a constraint on the programme — followed by Environmental Impact Assessment, planning, contract placement and construction delivery.
GPD’s involvement runs from land purchase through to lease negotiation, construction and utility connection. Completed lettings include McDonald’s and Starbucks, both on long-term leases.
GPD’s role:
- 50:50 joint venture partner
- Full project and financial management
- Early utility engagement and EIA
- Planning, contract placement and construction
- Land acquisition through to lease negotiation
Knowlhill, Milton Keynes
An office development delivered end-to-end by GPD, covering planning, construction, funding and ongoing management.
Three high-specification units of approximately 13,000 sq ft were developed on the site. Two were subsequently sold, with the third retained and managed as a long-term asset — an approach that let the scheme return capital while keeping ongoing income in place.
GPD’s role:
- Planning and construction
- Development funding
- Sale of two units
- Ongoing management of the retained unit
Foundry Park
A joint venture scheme covering funding, development and long-term asset management.
GPD took the site from brownfield acquisition through to completed scheme, with the structure designed around maximising overall asset value rather than exiting at practical completion. The long-term management remit means GPD’s involvement continues well beyond delivery. This project was developed to open storage over a number of tenants and recently sold allowing investors to exit with acceptable returns.
GPD’s role:
- Joint venture partner
- Development funding
- Brownfield acquisition through to completion
- Long-term asset management
Wellingborough
A mixed-use commercial scheme combining warehousing, office space and workshop units on a single site.
The mix allows the scheme to serve occupiers with different requirements — storage and distribution, administrative space, and light industrial workshop use — within one development.
FUTURE PROJECT
Hartwood
A substantial future development, acquired for a combination of industrial and residential use, with its own railway station situated on the site.
The land sits midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, on the main line connecting Scotland’s two largest cities. Residents and occupiers benefit from direct rail access to both centres without leaving the development, an arrangement that few sites of this scale can offer.
The dual industrial and residential allocation allows the scheme to be brought forward as a genuine mixed community rather than a single-use estate — employment space and housing developed alongside one another, with the station acting as the natural centre of the site.
The scale of the holding also allows for phased delivery, with individual parcels released as demand dictates and infrastructure put in ahead of each phase. Work is due to commence in the near future.
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