transportation Brackmills BID aims for another five years

It is 14 years since Northampton’s Brackmills Industrial Estate first became a Business Improvement District (BID) and in 2024 businesses will be invited to vote yes to a further five years of BID status.

Brackmills is the only industrial estate in Europe to have secured BID status for three five-year terms and the team behind the estate are confident there is much more to come.

In the last year alone, the BID has organised a packed calendar of events and invested in a range of security enhancing initiatives, infrastructure, environmental and wellbeing projects. For the third year the BID’s voluntary directors voted to freeze the BID levy and not to increase it.

“We recognise how important it is to support businesses – and that is what we are committed to doing,” explained BID Chair Howard Wilson.

The estate has its own dedicated police community support officer (PCSO), helping keep crime at an all-time low. The BID has also invested in a host of road improvements on and around the estate, relaying sections of road and reinforcing roads to protect underground power and communications cables. It also prioritises winter gritting. The lights on Salthouse Road are back on – thanks to the determination and hard work of the estate’s BID team.

Additionally, two ambulances packed with supplies were driven and delivered to Poland and Ukraine – thanks to a convoy co-ordinated by Brackmills BID, Goodwill Solutions, Northampton Supports Ukraine, Slavic Talalayenko, and Northampton Town Council. BID Chief Executive Sara Homer was behind the wheel. Brackmills is home to more than 180 businesses. Howdens recently left the estate after many years on Liliput Road, clearing the way for three huge new warehouses, one taken by Active Ants and a second by DSV Logistics.