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Glory Park

Inspired by nature – the Thames Valley's most sustainable office park

Vital Statistics:

• Building type: Business Park
• Location: Wooburn Green
• Building A1 (Sold)
• Building A2 (Let)
• Building A3 (Part Let, 6,000 - 12,000 sq ft available)
• Plot B (Up to 45,000 sq ft Pre Let)
• Plot C (Up to 75,000 sq ft Pre Let)
• Total sq ft: 184,000 sq ft
• Agents: BNP Paribas Real Estate / Savills
• BREEAM rating: Excellent

History:

Glory Park occupies the site of an historic paper mill. The Park gets its name from John de la Gloria who built what became known as Glory Mill on the site in the late 13th Century, beginning a long tradition of papermaking and commerce in the Wye valley.

Today, Glory Park's appeal comes from its pleasing combination of state of the art office space with a sympathetically landscaped and thoroughly natural environment. The result is a restful and dynamic workplace. The Park and its surrounding villages offer occupiers a rural setting with the world of commerce close to hand. The M40 is two minutes away, Heathrow is 18 miles away, and local stations send travellers to and from central London in under an hour. With its wonderfully natural setting and excellent transport links Glory Park genuinely offers the best of both worlds.

Environment:

Glory Park's architecture is thoroughly in tune with its surroundings. Enter the Park and the first thing you'll see is how well the office accommodation and the environment work together. Although Glory Park enjoys ample parking space it has been intelligently positioned behind the buildings to preserve the mood of tranquility.

From the beginning our aim was for the Park's architecture to reflect and grow naturally out of the site's features. As well as handling the issue of car parking with sensitivity this also means grass is allowed to grow right up to the edge of the buildings. Such is the success of our approach that the Environment Agency plans to use Glory Park as an example of best practice, showing how commercial development can enhance a site and preserve local habitats while providing a workplace for local people. The whole park is living proof that ecological needs and commercial concerns can work together.

Landscape:

Glory Park is built around a green 'T' formed by two stretches of water. The River Wye forms the horizontal, with a spring-fed chalk stream forming the vertical. Together they give Glory Park a unique and remarkably restful character.

Glory Park benefits from superb surroundings. The Chiltern Hills rise up to the front of the Park, while the site itself boasts two natural waterways. The demands of commerce aren't always kind to nature, and during the 19th and early 20th Centuries the River Wye was straightened and subdued, while the chalk stream was channelled along the edge of the site before being forgotten. Working in conjunction with the Environment Agency we have returned the site to its natural state, removing the River Wye's concrete banks and re-engineering the chalk stream to follow its natural course. Both are now clean, clear and already providing shelter to natural flora and fauna including water voles and newts. Like the River Wye, the stream will be left and allowed to grow naturally.