Westgate, Aldridge, Walsall, West Midlands, WS9 8EZ

Location:

The premises is located on Westgate, accessed off Dumblederry Lane in turn linking to the A454 Walsall Road approximately 1.5 miles to the west of Aldridge Town Centre.

The property lies within a popular industrial area within close proximity to Anchor Brook Industrial Estate and Middlemore Lane and is situated approximately 9 miles north of Birmingham City Centre and 3 miles to the north east of Walsall.

Junction 10 of the M6 motorway is approximately 4 miles distant accessed via the A461 Lichfield Road and A454.

Description:

The premises comprise a purpose-built truck preparation/repair centre on a fully fenced and gated site providing extensive concrete yard and parking areas.

The site provides a single storey steel portal framed industrial building with full height brick/blockwork elevations with cladding above surmounted by a steel profile clad roof incorporating translucent roof lights.

The property has been divided into integral component parts housing a paint workshop, vehicle preparation and repair centre alongside headquarter offices, welfare facilities and parts stores.

The paint shop and interconnecting vehicle repair workshop provide a concrete floor with a combined 9 x integral, lit inspection pits of approximately 25m in length in the main.

The workshop further provides 12 x gas fired radiant heaters, high bay sodium box lighting, 5 ton cranage in part and an eaves height of 6.4m approx with minimum working height to 5.3m approx. Access is by way of 10 x electric up-and-over doors to eastern and western elevations, being 4.5m (height) x 7.0m (width).

The paint booth provides fluorescent tube lighting, suspended gas fired blower and radiant heating, air extraction units and an eaves height of 6.4m approx with minimum working height to 5.3m approx. Vehicular access is by way of four up-and-over electric doors to both front and rear of the warehouse, three being 4.5m (height) x 3.9m (width) and a single door to 5.1m (height) x 3.9m (width).

Two-storey offices have been constructed to the gable end frontage of the property to a good standard across ground and first floors.

To the ground floor the offices provide a main reception, parts reception and truck rental office, W/C accommodation, used vehicle sales office, service reception, administration offices with locker room, showers and further W/C's. A part store with separate roller shutter access is off the parts reception. Additional private and open plan offices and, kitchenette, W/C accommodation, canteen, meeting rooms, boardroom and lecture room are provided to first floor. Access is via main and secondary stairwells with lift access also provided for.

The offices benefit from carpet/tiling throughout, with painted walls, suspended ceilings with recessed lighting/ spotlights, central heating system with electric heating in part, comfort cooling in part and double glazed aluminium windows and doors. All internal doors are securitised by way of mag-locks.

Externally, the site is accessed by way of a main concrete driveway off Westgate behind electronic gates with secondary access to the rear of the site. A tarmacadam parking area (providing 54 visitor parking bays) is located to the front of the property and extensive, concrete surfaced yard areas are located to the front, side and rear of the facility, accessed through electronic intercom controlled security barriers.

An adjoining concrete/hardcore compound to the north of the site is also provided for.

The site is fully secure by way of palisade and metal bar fencing, full perimeter laser detection system, CCTV and high level flood lighting to all external areas.

A vehicle truck wash is provided to the yard with integral interceptors, raised and bunded oil/diesel tanks and a steel framed, covered display canopy to the site entrance.