Spa Park
Location
Leamington Spa
Value
£165 Million
Total size
1 Million sqft
Developer
Stoford
End user
Various
BREEAM
Very Good
The latest Spa Park development was phased over 5 years beginning in 2018 and completing early 2024. The original site was home of the Automotive Products in Leamington Spa. Automotive Products, was an automotive industry components company set up in 1920 to import and sell American-made components to service the fleet of exmilitary trucks.
In 1928 a subsidiary company named the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Company Ltd was formed and brake component manufacture began on the site. In 1931, the Borg & Beck Company Limited was set up to manufacture clutches. The company became the UK’s leading manufacturer and supplier of clutches and braking, and was dominant in the market until the end of the 1970s.
With the decline of the British Motor Industry, and increased competition from manufacturers in Europe, AP saw its sales shrink. The Leamington Spa site was gradually reduced, until the business was broken up, and its mainstream automotive division was sold in 2000 to Delphi Automotive Systems.
The site extended at its height to over 70 acres and in 2001 redevelopment of the wider site commenced with phase 1 consisting of four new industrial units on Harrison Way. Later phases included the relocation of Headquarters Offices for Wolseley Building Products and subsequently their National Distribution Centre.
The latest phase introduced a flexible mix of B1/B2/B8 uses with ancillary offices. The overall design objective was to provide buildings which sit comfortably in their site whilst conveying an architectural language appropriate to the aspirations of modern business. To this end it was envisaged that the buildings will adopt a limited palette of materials that will create a unified architectural language, with a set of key components to allow a unified approach
