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Hainault Business Park Ltd
a company run for businesses by businesses
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Related Links HBP Improvements BID Consultation Business Support Agencies   HBP Free Recycling Waste Paper/Cardboard collections to continue to October 2010 Other Links      Metropolitan Police To report non urgent crimes click on the following link and follow the instructions www.met.police.uk/reporting_crime | Hainault Business Park Ltd / Founded in 2006 Hainault Business Park is situated in the London Borough of Redbridge and is the second largest employer within the borough. At the present time there are over 160 companies trading here, ranging from large international companies through to smaller businesses. We are in close proximity to major road links and have easy access to the M11, M25, A406 North Circular and our capital city: London. We are also close to mainline rail and underground services into central London, and of course the four major London airports in the south of England:- London Gatwick – London Heathrow – London Stansted – City Airport The original Industrial Estate was built in the early 1950s and is now designated a major manufacturing area in the London plan. In recent times the Estate had been going into gradual decline with many problems including empty premises, vandalism, commercial burglary, fly tipping and burnt out abandoned vehicles. The whole estate needed to be bought into the 21st century and regenerated. In October 2002 a meeting was organised by our local Crime Prevention Officer, companies that attended were invited to inform the Met-Police and the Council about the problems they were facing on a day to day basis. A series of meetings followed and in June 2003 the Council asked us to form a “Partnership” so that we would become a recognised group within the borough. This was done, and from that day we began our campaign to improve the Industrial Estate and make it a safer place to work for business owners, their employees and visitors. In partnership with Business Link for London, HBP appointed the first Business Park Manager for the estate on a part time basis; together we began making gradual visible improvements. In October 2003 we received various grants and decided to go ahead with a new signage project to not only inform visitors to the estate, but also to help brighten up the entrances. This work was achieved with the help of the newly formed Steering Group of the Hainault Business Partnership. In January 2004 the name of the Estate was changed to the Hainault Business Park. At a General Meeting of the Partnership in February 04 we offered the businesses the chance of installing a CCTV Camera system, providing that they would match fund the project with the help of the London Borough of Redbridge and Business Link. We were able to raise over £25,000 from the business owners and the system went live in December 2004. It has made a major impact on the Business Park and the Met. Police reported subsequently that the recent crime figures were very much improved and that the Business Park was no longer a major “Crime Hot Spot “within the borough. During 2004 / 05 we worked very closely with the Met Police and the newly appointed Police Community Support Officers in trying to reduce vandalism, fly tipping and abandoned cars. The council were very keen to work with us in reducing these occurrences, and over a period of time improvements in all aspects of our street problems have been made. In November 2004 were asked by BL4L to take things a step further and apply to the London Development Agency to become a Business Improvement District ( BID); a recent concept that was being used in Town Centre Shopping Areas, but at that time there were no Industrial Estates or Business Parks in the country with this status. The Partnership decided that this would be the best and the fairest way forward if we were going to develop our Business Park and try and bring it into the 21st Century. By becoming a BID it means that every business pays a 1% levy in addition to their business rates and that money is spent on items and services that are not provided as a statutory function by the council, government or the Police. It took a lot of hard work and the Partnership had to be seen to be working with not only the business community but also the local community. An idea was put forward to develop a web site for the Business Park and what better way of working with the local community than giving the local High School pupils the opportunity to work with business leaders. The Hainault Forest High School was chosen to help to design the web site and in April 2006 their work was completed. We are continually improving our site and have now employed an IT Consultant to up date our system on a weekly basis. The web site has played a major part in getting local businesses to trade with each other, as well as providing opportunities for National Companies to take advertising space thus increasing sponsorship and revenue to the BID company. It also helps promote our Business Park to all those who visit the site. Work on regeneration improvements to Hainault Business Park will continue to the year 2010, the five year BID programme timescale, in conjunction with the major stakeholders, and the businesses themselves. Regeneration, Improvements and a better Business Community spirit will not arrive by itself; you have to work hard to achieve it, in Partnership with others. United we stand, divided YOU fall |
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