A Colne Valley site is ripe for redevelopment following work to clear surplus plant and machinery.
The 25,000sqw ft premises at Milnsbridge were formerly occupied by the Batoyle Freedom Group,
Now the site is being marketed by Leeds property consultancy Dove Haigh Phillips after Leeds-based chartered surveyors and auctioneers Landwood Group was instrumental in selling the equipment in the buildings.
The premises were used as a dedicated blending facility. Batoyle owned a specialist range of assets, including blending and storage vessels and laboratory analysis equipment. Selling and removing the assets and preparing the site for market proved a complex task.
Richard Parkinson, director of the Landwood Group, said: “There were 30 external tanks, some over 30ft high. In addition, a further 50 internal tanks each holding 7,000 litres or more were held in the roof void 40ft above ground. The only way of removing them was to remove parts of the roof and use heavy cranes to lift them on to the ground.
“The cost of moving some items was greater than their value. It was decided the best way forward was to lift things out, then remove the heavy supporting steel work with mezzanine floors.
“This allowed the large mixing vessels on the ground floor to be taken out. Most items were sold to be collected from the ground floor thus maximising the realisation and economising on the cost of heavy lifting.
“The removed plant went all over the England and as far north as Aberdeen. Some of the laboratory equipment even went to Dubai.”
Said Mr Parkinson: “The client now has a clean, tidy and empty and safe site. The total time scale from beginning to end was some three months.”
Mike Dove, of Dove Haigh Phillips, said: “The Landwood Group has done a superbly professional job in getting this strategically important site ready for the market. It now has the potential to be a first-class industrial property location, close to both the centre of Huddersfield and to Yorkshire’s excellent motorway network.”
