Dudley’s Castle Gate Business Park in the West Midlands combines leisure activities with business facilities in an integrated site. In addition to commercial space, the purpose-built business park is home to family restaurants, a public house, and entertainment venues. Tenants include accounting and financial services, office suppliers and designers, and chartered surveyors.
About Castle Gate Business Park
Castle Gate Business Park is situated on a site of approximately 19 hectares, or 47 acres. The business park is adjacent to Dudley’s town centre, the administrative and financial centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. The site integrates business and leisure activities and consists of 18 buildings around a landscaped green space. In addition to purpose-built office buildings and leisure facilities, outline planning consent has been granted for additional development on two plots of 5.05 acres and 2.70 acres.
Amenities and Facilities
Office space at Castle Gate Business Park is available to let and buy. The business park features ample on-site parking for employees and visitors. Additional amenities include high-speed broadband internet, CCTV security services and 24-hour access, and comfort cooling and air conditioning. Office space is available at a variety of office buildings on the site, including Castle Gate House. Castle Gate House is a three-floor complex with 5,844 square feet of office space, featuring flexible units from 800 square feet. In addition, CC1 houses self-contained offices of up to 2,243 square feet and CC2 offers office units from 1,334 to 24,407 square feet.
Amenities in the business park include the 98-bed De Vere hotel and conference centre and a leisure complex with a health and fitness centre. Thanks to a range of leisure tenants at the business park, employees at Castle Gate have convenient access to a range of restaurants and other on-site amenities. Leisure tenants include Pizza Hut, Nando’s, Chiquito, and The Bostin Fittle, as well as Showcase Cinemas and Bowlplex. Excellent road access and a variety of restaurants and entertainment facilities have also encouraged Premier Inn to build a new 63-room hotel at Castle Gate, which is targeted for completion in 2013.
Location and Transportation Links
Castle Gate Business Park is located approximately 5 miles south of Wolverhampton and 8 miles north-west of Birmingham. The business park is within 3 miles of Junction 2 of the M25 motorway. Birmingham International Airport is approximately 14 miles from Castle Gate, providing convenient domestic, European and international flight connections. Rail services to Birmingham, Wolverhampton and other communities are available from the nearby Tipton and Dudley stations, which are approximately one mile away. Frequent bus service is also available along Tipton Road (A4037), which runs along the western edge of Castle Gate Business Park. To the south is Birmingham Road (A461) and to the east is Birmingham New Road (A4123).