The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is to take its 300,000 sq ft (27,870 sq m) Merseyside office requirement to a site at Bootle in Liverpool.
HSE is understood to have rejected alternative options, including Liverpool’s Princes Dock, and decided to develop on a three-acre (1.2ha) site at St Albans Road, Bootle. It already has the site under option.
Three developers have been shortlisted: Norwich Union, Pyramid Consortium, led by Interserve Investments and Charterhouse Project Equity Investments, and Kajima. All have proposed a location close to the existing buildings in Bootle.
The office, expected to be ready for occupation by 2004, will replace six Merseyside offices in Bootle housing up to 1,400 staff. HSE is also understood to have an option on a site next to its existing offices.
HSE was under intense political pressure not to move from its existing Bootle base to elsewhere in the Merseyside region.
HSE project manager Martin Thompson said: “We received an impressive set of outline proposals which has been a very promising start to this project. HSE requires serviced office accommodation in Merseyside, and has a target to move into a new headquarters by the end of 2004.”
EGi News 18/03/02
