Welcome to our first newsletter of 2020 which highlights the latest successes within our growing business community and provides an update on developments at the estate.

We have entered the new year and the new decade with a great deal of optimism.

Firstly, our main contractor, Barnwood Construction, remains on programme with the construction of our latest 258,000 sq ft of new industrial units, in spite of the terrible weather conditions at the end of 2019.

Secondly, we are converting interest in these new units into deals and this means new people moving to the Park – watch this space!

Thirdly, the main multi-utility upgrade works are now complete, giving us access to natural gas for the first time, as well as a brand new foul drainage system.

This upgrade enables us to build anywhere on site, to customers’ requirements – we have a lot of enquiries and are ready to deliver!

Last but by no means least, MEPC’s vision for Silverstone Park is being delivered – we are helping business to flourish, with new connections being made and businesses feeling supported, and stating that they really want to be based on the Park in order to give themselves every chance of success.

We have therefore evolved our brand marketing to reflect this. Whilst ‘From here we change the world’ remains the principal brand proposition, by allowing our companies to ‘Grow | Succeed | Belong’ then ‘Together we change the world’ recognises the power of community and collaboration – the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

In line with these changes, you will notice that we have renamed the newsletter ‘We’ as these pages are about us – the Silverstone Park community…

Over Christmas, I read political journalist Robert Peston’s book which highlights the UK government’s concern to increase productivity, and the important role that ‘collaboration’ plays in achieving this, but also, in his opinion, how hard it is to get companies to collaborate.

I was struck by this comment because we are doing this at Silverstone Park and in the Silverstone Technology Cluster. So, I am keen to ensure we communicate this work with the new government in 2020, to gain greater support and recognition for our area.

As I said in a post on LinkedIn recently about the new ‘Grow | Succeed | Belong’ brand marketing: I think I can say that all of us pictured in the new brand imagery are proud to work together. I’m certainly proud to be working with all of you.

Roz Bird, Commercial Director, Silverstone Park