Issue 4 2017
The Official Newsletter of the Crowborough Town Council
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Crowborough Enterprise Centre UPDATE Crowborough Town Council, in collaboration with Basepoint, is moving forwards with the delivery of The Crowborough Enterprise Centre; an ‘easy in, easy out’ flexible space for small businesses and start-ups to lease (via Basepoint). The Council has appointed MacConvilles as the lead member of its professional team to act as cost consultants and project manager on the Town Council’s behalf. At a recent meeting of the full council sources of funding to cover the current ‘pretender estimate’ were identified and the council committed to completing the conversion and delivering the project for the summer of 2018. In addition to the business hub the building will see the library remain in its current location on the first floor, with the Town Council moving in to the old WDC council chamber area on the ground floor. Moving forwards, the project now has the full team in place to create the detailed design with a view to going out to tender in December in order to obtain cost certainty for the redevelopment. Once completed the project will make available over sixty lettable units (totalling around 15,000sqft) for businesses; allowing collaborative working with businesses working alongside each other. The units will be of varying sizes, from 100-150sqft to 600sqft, with the majority of units being 150-250sqft. There will also be communal break out spaces and the ability to rent out meeting rooms. Mayor, Cllr Peter Ellefsen, said “I am excited by the accelerating movement towards completion of the Crowborough Enterprise Centre which will provide tremendous facilities for local small businesses. It has been a slow and meticulous process, making sure that everything in the project is properly in place, and it has not been without its problems. But now it is due to be operational next summer and I am really looking forward to the Crowborough Enterprise Centre being ‘open for business’.” Crowborough Town Council Newsletter - Issue 4, 2017