[Ian Gourlay]

Has the Council got a Regeneration or Enterprise Dept

if not that means they are not interested

[PaulKing]

Aye its a hard one, keep looking, took us a while to find the right place and cost a lot in wasted ventures too!

stay small you can always grow our unit is 750sq foot (ish)  but have a office and mezzanine built which helps with storage.
 
And you sound like you have it covered already you just need a cupboard with a letterbox.

A wise man said "it's not a business whilst it still at home it just a nuisance"

Now I know what he ment. but only since i got it out the house.

[carlton care]

Ian

Look for Private " small business units "there must be some in the area. We moved to a typical Business Centre 8 years ago where we have

24 hour security
property manager on site
electricity, toilets, kitchen, waste collection
acres of free parking
a mile and a half from Glasgow Airport

our rent started at under £2,500 per year and is still under £3000 with all of the above included.

I agree about the local authorities being useless at providing small business units, I've looked at many over the years and they have always been outrageously expensive, with no security, extra charges for waste disposal, mostly too big.

[Ian Rochester]

A wise man said "it's not a business whilst it still at home it just a nuisance"

That wise man said wise words, I know exactly what he meant, and more importantly so does Sue!

I've looked at private units around here, but a 800sq ft unit, starts at £110/week for rental plus vat, rates, water, electric, etc, etc.   They are on a 2 year rent review period and I have spoken to a lad who rents a different one, his rent went up by 40% on the last review! In reality it would cost us a minimum of £10,000 a year to rent a unit

So at the moment I'm a bit loathe to go down that route, I'd rather fork out and get something built to the specifications we want, it's just a matter of finding the land.

We have plans drawn up ready for a steel framed 24m x 12m unit, with office space, mezzanine, toilets, roller doors and all services and I have had it priced to build at £87,500.

[jasonl]

If you are willing to spend well in excess of 100k  on premises, why noy buy a house worth over 100k more than the one you have ? With outbuildings and space, probably apart from other housing .

[Ian Rochester]

Jason,

Already looked at it, however, there's not that many of them out there and the ones that I have seen have been close to £1m