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The Kingsway Business Park is out on the road this summer visiting your town! A prize draw to win £50 of high street shopping vouchers will take place EVERY DAY of the tour. All you have to do is play the fun “Lucky Duck” Game and you can enter in to the prize draw!*

Kingsway has been liaising with as many schools as possible and introducing Kingsway in to the curriculum. We are working with over 10 schools over a range of subjects including English, Biology, Geography, Art, Drama and Business Studies. We now have schemes of work available cross curriculum for Primary school Teachers.

The Kingsway Business Park has reached a landmark in its development, with the completion of the A6193 Sir Isaac Newton Way. It is officially due to open to traffic on Sunday 2 December 2007. The Kingsway Partnership is marking the occasion by holding a Community Open Day on 1st December 2007. The main feature of the day will be guided coach tours along the new road which will be started with an official ribbon cutting ceremony.

Under the terms of the planning permission for the business park, no access is allowed for contractors’ traffic to reach the site from the surrounding residential roads, (including Stiups Lane), unless otherwise agreed by the Council. Phase two of the development works on the site are due to start this week. Unfortunately, it has now become necessary for limited and temporary use to be made of Stiups Lane to form the proposed contractor’s site compound in connection with the works. The contractors, Carrillion, have therefore requested that this planning condition be relaxed temporarily. Continued... please click above

The Kingsway Partnership has commissioned a 3 dimensional model of the Kingsway Business Park. The model is an incredible 2.1m x 2.4m in size and has been built to scale in line with the Kingsway Masterplan. It provides a clear image of how the business park is expected to look on completion, showing intricate detail and a splendid bird's eye view.

The filming of a short production for Kingsway Business Park explaining the hidden dangers of building sites took place in March with BTEC Performing Arts students from Springhill High School dramatising the project.

Justin Jenkinson, 41, from Castleton, had been looking to get back in to employment for three months after a long period of being the full-time carer for a family member. After a meeting with Job Centre Plus, Justin was referred to Pat Ashtonhurst, Senior Outreach Adviser for the Kingsway Recruitment Team. Justin met with Pat who suggested completing a training course through the Kingsway Recruitment Team training grants.

Development on Kingsway is moving forward with the first building constructions on Plot E being granted planning permission on 19 December 2006. Approval for this first application for build is a tremendous step forwards in the regeneration of Rochdale Borough and the wider region.

Getting out and about in the local community is an activity the Kingsway Delivery Team has been undertaking in no small measure. Over the past few months the team has been engaging with as many people as possible, in as many ways as possible. This is to provide information on Kingsway and to ensure that Rochdale Borough residents maximise on the benefits to be gained from the business park.

As part of the process of identifying solutions to a problem of surplus earth generated by the development, a series of consultations with local residents were held at Public Exhibitions in November 2006.

Wilson Bowden welcomed in the New Year with approval for its first phase of development on Plot E. Following the planning approval construction began in January, with completion, occupation and first employment opportunities expected in autumn 2007.