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.

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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May 5th, 2010 - Marchday “Now that’s what I call customer service” Nomination No.2

Tim tells us about his latest customer service triumph;

Is it really that easy for starbucks? Great example of customer service this morning from a global brand – Starbucks;

Quite simple really Kate had an undercooked muffin and took it back expecting a straight swap. I think it is fair to say that nearly everyone would be happy with that. However, the polite member of staff took it step further by not only explaining the reason for the issue and removing the rest of the muffins that had come from the same packet, from the display, but furnished Kate with a voucher entitling her to a free beverage the next time she goes into a Starbucks.

Importantly the staff member made a record of the issue and each voucher has a number. Although I didn’t ask (perhaps I should have) I assume that all these results are analysed and used to improve the Starbucks experience.

Most companies big or small would have stopped at just replacing the item… Starbuck took it a little further.

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April 22nd, 2010 - Marchday Enlightened at Last!

John presents Strictly New Business winner Kate Schott with the key to her future.

Great fun was had by all on Tuesday night at the final of ’Strictly New Business’. The event, held at Lingfield Point, Darlington set out to find the winner of free office space for a year at Darlington’s favourite home of business. Prior to the main action guests drank champagne, whilst being entertained by steamy dance duo Latin Connection and 17 year old local chanteuse Hayley McKay. Competition between the finalists was fierce but in the end the ‘Strictly’ style panel of judges awarded the prize to Darlington based Kate Schott and her business concept ‘Enlightened Living’.