Lingfield Point | Marchday

Lingfield Point, the successful 107-acre business park can offer stylish business accommodation from 540 sq ft to 70,000 sq ft and above with plentiful car parking and easy access to the region’s transport network.

Meadow is our latest office space now available – unique to the North East and represents over 47,000 sq ft all on one ground floor in the mesmerising Lingfield House with an attractive 1:300 car parking ratio.

And what’s more, all of our occupiers benefit from flexible lease agreements and a range of on-site services including a 24 hour security, a welcoming nursery, a delicious café and a customer-focused management team – all ready to provide a business environment that will help you grow.

July 2nd, 2010 - The Marchday Peloton.

Sophie climbs.

Is it just us or is cycling everywhere you look these days? With the Tour de France kicking off tomorrow (and England out of the World Cup) it seems that pedal power is on everybody’s minds.

The Marchday teams at Lingfield Point, Darlington and New Lodge, Windsor have recently taken advantage of the Government’s ‘Cycle to Work’ scheme and have really caught the cycling bug in the process. So far Marchday have bought 8 bikes through the scheme with more in the pipeline. At Lingfield Point the Marchday Peloton can feature up to 7 riders on their regular Tuesday night rides out into Teesdale and Weardale and new ‘rouleurs’ are always welcome.

New Lodge manager Paul Buckley began riding in March and has already taken part in some grueling sportifs including the recent Chilterns 100, a hilly 100 mile course which he completed in 6:26 only four weeks after breaking his wrist in a cycling spill. He’s hard! Speaking of which, the Marchday cycling guru at Lingfield Point is (Hard) Colin who has inspired the boys and Sophie to amazing feats of endurance. Of course Sophie was a professional mountain bike rider so this is all a bit too easy for her.

So, do we cycle to work? Well…. sometimes…. but we all cycle lots, are enjoying every minute of it and feeling (and maybe even looking) better as a result – and that must be the result the Government is after – isn’t it?

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July 1st, 2010 - A Taste of Honey.

Lingfield Point Honey - Liquid Gold.

After much talk our bees at Lingfield Point Darlington have done what they do best and despite a bitter winter have produced their first crop of honey. Having tasted it we can honestly say it’s some of the best honey we’ve ever tried. Our bees forage over a wide area and the silky, soft set consistency suggests that they are feeding on a wide range of wild flowers, including our own wild flower meadows.

We’re really enjoying our first experience of beekeeping and thanks to Willie, Chris, Colin and Graham hope our bees will produce around 40-50lbs of honey from the two hives this summer. It’s also thanks to Christian Barnes, one of the artists behind the ‘Futurescope’ art project as his thinking has been inspirational to us.

It’s really exciting to hold our first jar of honey after so much anticipation – let’s hope it’s the first of many.

Our first honey harvest.

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June 3rd, 2010 - Now available – Lingfield Lamb!

The latest iconic Futurescope image by artists John Kennedy and Christian Barnes was revealed this week at Lingfield Point, Darlington. ‘Lingfield Lamb’ is a lovely reference to Lingfield Point’s heritage as a wool factory whilst looking to the future plans for organic food production on site as part of our sustainable mixed community. You can read all about the thinking behind the image by clicking on Christian’s blog site, http://futurescopedarlington.blogspot.com/

We’re all interested in where our food comes from and how it’s produced. At Lingfield Point we already have allotments and an organic garden producing fruit and veg for local residents. Last year we installed beehives and hope to sell our own honey to customers in our café this summer. Who knows, some time in the future Lingfield Point might be home to a flock of its very own but for now we’ll have to make do with this little fella!

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May 21st, 2010 - Marchday’s Spring Lambs.

Just another day in the office...

Last Saturday, artists Christian Barnes and John Kennedy spent many happy hours chasing lambs around one of our customer’s office spaces – and photographing the results! The fruit of the labours is the fantastic image which will appear on Futurescope from the end of May.

Christian became excited about the link between the heritage of the site as a wool factory and the future plans for a sustainable mixed community some time ago;

Although this image started with an city/urban farming idea.. the idea that it really might be practical to ‘farm’ the soft estate at Lingfield… we both felt that the image really touches on the heritage of the site as a wool factory in a way we had not expected. It really stuck us as we noticed for the first time on the Friday that the meeting rooms in the SLC are named after wool manufacturing processes.

More photos of the shoot can be viewed by clicking on the link below;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vistaprojects/sets/72157624060537842/show/

We’ll be previewing the chosen ‘Lingfield Lamb’ Futurescope image here next week so watch this space!

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May 13th, 2010 - Marchday’s ‘Magnificent Seven!’

At Marchday we try to be creative in our approach to providing people with the business space they need. We like to come up with ideas which make us stand out from the crowd. At Lingfield Point, Darlington we’ve created the ‘Magnificent Seven’ – seven good reasons for choosing Lingfield Point as the home for your business. Here they are;

1. Great location, Access & Parking

Excellent location and access from the surrounding road network. Great for trains and buses; fantastic for bike routes. An unrivalled parking ratio is one of our knockout features.

2. Customer Service & Security

We do ‘customer service’ like no other property company. From Ed and the team to Ted. Our on site Security team are a critical part of our customer service and offer unrivalled levels of peace of mind.

3. Value, Flexibility, Business Support and sense of Community.

We are more cost competitive (and certainly better) than our competition. We offer flexible terms, tailored to suit the customer’s needs and have access to unrivalled business support networks. By basing your business at Lingfield Point you join a thriving business community with all the benefits that brings.

4. Fantastic Space of all sizes available right away.

From 250sqft to 100,000sqft we can offer fantastic space which is ready to go. None of our competitors can offer such a range of fantastic award winning spaces .

5. Hotdesking, meeting rooms and on-site facilities

Uniquely, Lingfield Point offers a great range of on site facilities. Café, Nursery and Creche, fitness classes, communal meeting rooms and breakout areas. The newly launched Hotdesking facility ‘Alaska’ gives potential customers the chance to feel the ‘Lingfied Point Experience’

6. Sustainability

This is at the heart of Lingfield Point’s future. We soon hope to have on site Combined Heat and Power and District Heating giving customers the benefit of low carbon energy. Customers will be part of one of the UK’s most visionary Sustainable Mixed Communities.

7. Design, Art & Futurescope

Design excellence and Art are all around at Lingfield Point from the award winning Memphis building to Futurescope and Tickle Me. They combine to give LP the truly unique, trendy, arty feel businesses often like to be associated with.

So that’s it, the Magnificent Seven! Come to Lingfield Point, say ‘How d’you do’ and feel the Lingfield Point Experience for yourself.

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