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Lydney Harbour Estate

ASH & Co were invited to competitively  tender for the management of Lydney Harbour Estate, following the retirement of their in-house estate manager in 2002.

The estate extends to some 60 acres, is home to over forty businesses and provides approximately half a million square feet of industrial accommodation.

In addition to collecting rents and service charges from the tenants ASH & Co manage the site on a day to day basis, including the supervision of repairs and maintenance, with the help of a full time site manager.

We act as letting agents using our local knowledge to advise on prevailing  rents and co-ordinate marketing and other promotional activities including a recent open day. This has led to a significant increase in occupancy levels.

During the last five years we have overseen a number of improvements to the estate including the refurbishment of several units, upgrading the CCTV system, installation of a new electric security gate and the launch of a new logo.

ASH & Co have also pro-actively introduced a new programme of maintenance for the electrical infrastructure of the estate involving considerable investment by Beachley Property in new transformers and switchgear, and have also been able to reduce leakage from the estate's water mains.

More recently we successfully argued at Valuation Tribunal the removal from the rating list of a large factory , helping to reduce our clients empty rates liability.

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