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Firm Expands at Priority Sites’ Selby scheme

Since relocating to Priority Sites’ Abbey Court development last year, specialist educational service provider The Skills Network has expanded so rapidly that the firm has just signed its second extra lease in 12 months and is now actively recruiting more employees.

The Skills Network is a specialist educational service provider offering high quality learning resources to FE Colleges, Schools, employers and individual learners nationwide. They have more than doubled staff numbers to 76 in response to an increasing demand for their services since relocating from The Iron Works in Selby town centre in April last year.

Abbey Courtis a popular development withinSelbyBusinessPark, fronting the A63 SelbyBypass and comprising of 15 high quality, self-contained buildings totalling 26,870 sq ft. In April 2011, The Skills Network leased the 2,449 sq ftBuilding 16 for its 30 relocating staff. Having already expanded to 46 full-time employees by November, they signed an additional lease for a further 938 sq ft in neighbouringBuilding 14 and have now taken the remaining 959 sq ft in that building to occupy both 14 and 16 completely.

Joint agents McBeath Property Consultancy and PPH Commercial acted forPriority Sitesin the deals with The Skills Network representing itself.

Eliot Grant, Director at The Skills Network, said; “Our business is such that we get a lot of work from recommendation and since we set up the company in 2009, the number of colleges we work with has grown from 4 to over 20 and this is just part of the work we do. This growth has led to an increase in our in-house teams and now that we have the space to accommodate them, we are currently recruiting more learners,salesand administrative staff.

“We have always been committed to investing into the locality and in fact, all our staff live within a 15 mile radius. The modern, easily accessible offices at Abbey Court have proven to be a superb base for our growing company and we look forward to many more successful years ahead.”

Adam Richardson, Development Manager at Priority Sites, continued; “It is always a positive sign when existing occupiers want to expand within our business parks and we are delighted to be able to accommodate the requirements of The Skills Network. The success of Abbey Court can be largely attributed to its accessible location, quality of buildings and our ability to work with occupiers to offer them flexibility.”

McBeath Property Consultancy and PPH Commercial are currently handling interest from potential occupiers in the available accommodation at Abbey Court.

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