Carluddon Technology Park & Enterprise Space for Advanced Manufacturing (ESAM)

Carluddon Technology Park offers high quality business support, in high quality premises, in a highly visible location accessible from the A30, and has beome a catalyst for the development of future high quality employment space within the St Austell area.

The project enables physical and economic regeneration of the area, benefiting new and existing businesses in the low carbon environmental goods and services and advanced manufacturing sectors.  Supporting innovation and entrepreneurial business, Carluddon Technology Park project aims to create 75 high value jobs and set a benchmark for design quality.  It benefits from proximity to the Eco-communities Initiative, the Eden Project and other same sector initiatives such as the Wave Hub and the Marine Renewables Park.

This project is led by Cornwall Council who:

• Provides capital and revenue match funding to cover the revenue deficit in the early years
• Reviews and ensures the delivery of the project in accordance with ERDF requirements
• Enters into a contract with the main contractor
• Enters into an option agreement with Imerys as landowner
• Assembles financial information and claims
• Co-ordinates publicity and marketing
• Undertakes monitoring and evaluation
• Acts as the first point of contact for the contractors, the local community and stakeholders
• Appoints (via an OJEU compliant tender) an operator to manage Carluddon Technology Park.

ERDF investment in this project provides new and existing businesses in the low carbon and renewable energy sector the opportunity to locate their operations at Carluddon Technology Park.  The applicant for the ERDF investment is Cornwall Council, acting within the scope of its ‘well-being’ powers as an agent of change in the interest of the economic and physical regeneration of the area.  It delivers and holds the assets created by the project.

Indirect beneficiaries of the ERDF investment are local businesses and communities who benefit from employment, knowledge transfer and supply chain opportunities in St Austell and the Clay Country as a result of this ERDF investment.

The project is wholly located on a site approximately 2.5km to the north of St. Austell, between the villages of Scredda, Carluddon and Penwithick at the junction between the A391 and B3374.

The aim of the project is to establish the area as one of the premier locations in the UK for ambitious, high value businesses, working within the Low Carbon Environmental Good and Services Sector (LCGES) and to be recognised nationally and internationally as providing a model for the low carbon economy and for low carbon living.

The project remediates the Carluddon Technology Park site and deliver 2,289 m2 gross internal area of BREEAM Excellent employment space creating a nationally significant, self-sustaining facility targeted at the low carbon and renewable energy sector.

For more information about ESAM and workspace availability visit: www.choosecornwall.co.uk/property/esam/