Waterside Retail Park Station Road, Ilkeston, DE7 5LF

Waterside Retail Park comprises a purpose-built retail park totalling 67,941 sq ft plus 14,933 sq ft of mezzanine space. The units are of steel portal frame construction with elevations of brick work and profile cladding. The property benefits from 317 customer parking spaces, providing a customer car parking ratio of 1:214 sq ft based on the ground floor area. In addition, there are a large number of staff spaces in the service yard area. The units benefit from a generous rear servicing area via the access road. The total site area extends to approximately 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) giving an extremely low site cover of 24%.

Ilkeston is a historic market town that has evolved into being an important commuter hub for the East Midlands. Strategically positioned between Nottingham (8 miles east) and Derby (10 miles A53 west), the town sits at the heart of a dynamic regional belt drawing on a considerable and diverse regional catchment. The town benefits from excellent communication links with the A52 approximately 4 miles to the north, linking to Derby and the M1 to Stoke on Trent and the M6. Access to the M1 is at Junctions 25 and 26 approximately 4 miles to the south and east of the town respectively. Ilkeston also benefits from frequent rail services to Nottingham and Sheffield with a fastest journey time of 12 minutes and A518 40 minutes respectively. Furthermore, East Midlands Airport isA460 located 12 miles south of Ilkeston and provides national & international flights.

Waterside Retail Park is prominently situated in an easily accessible location on Station Road (A6096), a major arterial route just north of the town centre. It is also highly accessible from the M1 motorway via Junctions 25 and 26. The scheme holds a uniquely dominant position as the town’s only coordinated retail park destination with the only other provision being a standalone Dunelm store close to the town centre. Other food retailers in the town include Morrisons (64,500 sq ft) on Nottingham Road, Tesco (93,500 sq ft) on Rutland Street and Aldi (12,300 sq ft) on Manor Road. Ilkeston train station is situated approximately 5 minutes’ walk from Waterside Retail Park and provides direct trains primarily to Nottingham (12 minutes journey time), Sheffield (40 minutes) and Leeds (1.5 hours) with frequent onward connections to London St Pancras and Derby.