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Coming home to Hounsdown


Hounsdown Business Park

Totton�s Hounsdown Business Park has a new occupant, with the letting by Humberts Commercial of the remaining offices at Hounsdown House.

The thriving business park, which is already home to Russ Berrie, Cable & Wireless, Dixons/Mastercare and McNicholas Construction, now counts award winning civil engineering firm Gifford amongst its tenants.

The firm, which has experienced an organic growth spurt of some 20% in the last twelve months alone, has taken the ground floor of Hounsdown House to accommodate the expansion and house its building structures and a building services team.

Hounsdown House already has connections for Gifford - it was built from one of its structural designs � and they have taken approximately 6,800 sq ft on a 10 year fully insuring and repairing lease at a rental of �99,500 per annum.

Winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise in 2002, Gifford was founded in Southampton in 1951 and has its headquarters nearby at Netley Marsh.

�We have had an extremely successful twelve months and needed to find good quality offices close to our Netley Marsh headquarters in which to house our expanding team,� explains Gifford�s partner David Dibb-Fuller.

�About 60 members of the team are now well housed at Hounsdown House and are working on a number of ongoing contracts, including the Flagship Training Project to design new Naval training facilities at establishments across the country.�

Andrew Archibald, Senior Associate with Humberts� Southampton office said: �We are delighted to have let this space to one of the region�s leading firms. At the heart of the park�s success is the quality of the buildings coupled with its location and good motorway access. The quality of occupiers we have attracted to the Business Park speaks volumes.�

For further information please contact Andrew Archibald, Humberts, on tel. 023 8063 4744


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