Land for sale

Belmont Nurseries
The nurseries comprise an extensive range of horticultural buildings and 52 acres of level land which can be accessed at several points off New Roman Bank and Long Road. The farm buildings have evolved over fifty years, growing as the business grew.

Glasshouses
Over 5 acres of mainly aluminium framed glasshouses, most are double and triple span with a mixture of 3½- 4m eaves. The 237,430 ft² (22,066 m²) of glasshouses benefit from a Priva environmental system, providing automatic control of light, heat and humidity through control of the vents, screens, overhead watering and trickly irrigation. In addition, there are about 54,000 ft² (4,944m²) of poly tunnel frames. In addition, there is a lapsed planning consent (16/01373/F) for an additional 1.2 acres (5,134m²)
of glasshouse situated adjacent to the reservoir.

Refrigerated Stores
Adjacent to the Glasshouses are 34,938 ft² (3,247m²) of refrigerated storage
(including 2 pack house cold stores). The stores are housed in a range of steel
portal framed buildings with tin cladding and corrugates fibre cement roofs.
The stores have a mixture of foam insultation and panel insulation
and benefit from Priva environmental computer-controlled temperature
and environmental controls including Heat/Cooling with Fresh Air
Ventilation enabling specialist Bulb storage. Some stores also include
Ozone Air purification system to ensure the control of Ethylene in flower
and bulb storage.

Farm Buildings
There are a broad range of modern farm buildings which are used for machinery and equipment storage and as well as providing cover for various cleaning, washing and packing lines.

Photovoltaic Solar Panels and Woodchip Boiler
• Solar Panels - An array of 204 50kw/ hour panels, erected in 2012
• Woodchip Boiler - providing 998kw heat
FiT and RHI payments are available from the Vendors’ agents.

There are three water storage tanks adjacent to the buildings: - 2 x 40,000lt tanks and one 20,000lt tank.

Farmland
The farmland lies immediately to the North of the glasshouses in a compact and regular shape. It is level and is accessed either via the buildings or at various points along Long Road. The Land is Classified Grade 1 with the soil belonging to the highly regarded Wisbech Series, a Marine Alluvium of deep stoneless calcareous silt soils suitable for growing a wide range of root crops, field vegetables and horticultural crops.

The land is served by a holding reservoir of over 5,000,000lts which is filled by rainwater off the roofs of the glass houses. In 2016 an electric pump and pipe system was installed for irrigation enabling 740 acres (300 Ha) of adjoining land to be irrigated for flowers or niche crops such as carrots and leaks etc. Typically, this can provide up to 15,000,000lts of water each year.

Company Sale
The Vendors are prepared to consider a sale of the PS & JE Ward Ltd to include the Belmont Nursery. The accountants Chavereys have prepared a company valuation which is available to interested parties subject to signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement, which is available from the Vendors’ agents.

The Nursery is situated West Norfolk immediately to the North of Terrington St Clement. It is about 8 miles west of Kings Lynn, Peterborough is 32½
miles to the southwest and Norwich is 54½ miles to the east.

The farm is 2 miles from the A17 trunk road, a major supply route running through the Fens which links Kings Lynn with Newark on Trent.

There are regular mainline train services to London from Kings Lynn (1 hour 50 minutes and Peterborough (from about 50 minutes).

Terrington has a good range of local shops and services including a supermarket, Doctor’s surgery, a post office, and two pubs. Kins Lynn has a
full range of regional level retail, leisure and commercial services as well as a
full range of schools.