Key Facts

At 170 hectares (420 acres) Kingsway is equivalent to half the size of Manchester city centre
A business community of 7,250 direct and 1,750 indirect jobs is expected to be established on Kingsway by 2022
Kingsway is estimated to add £250 - £350 million per year to the Rochdale and North West economy when it is completed
8 million people live within 60 minutes drive time of Kingsway Business Park
The combined length of Kingsway's planned roads, cycle paths and footpaths is over 24 miles
11,000 trees have been planted in the first phase of infrastructure works, over 40,000 trees will be planted in total on the whole site
An estimated 1,000,000 cubic metres of soil will be moved during the course of infrastructure works on the site
As a key North West Regional Development Agency strategic site, Kingsway will receive £31m in NWDA development funding
31 water voles collected from Kingsway were taken to Chester Zoo and entered into a planned breeding program where their numbers have grown to more than 200 in the first year
Wilson Bowden Developments is one of the UK's leading commercial and residential property developers with a group turnover of £1.3 billion