MORE than 6,000 employees now call Birchwood Park their place of work, as the business destination enters its 25th year.

The business park is celebrating its 94 per cent retention rate - meaning that the majority of businesses are satisfied with the park's offerings.

This is the sixth year that the park is celebrating a retention rate above 90 per cent.

Birchwood Park is the largest out-of-town business destination in the north west of England.

It has been championed in recent weeks by MP for Warrington North, Charlotte Nichols, who expressed her pleasure with the park's work in the nuclear sector.

Birchwood Park has also expanded its engineering roster in the last twelve months, with construction engineers Richter, and international system engineers SEMP, among the new list of occupiers to expand their services to the park.

The park sources 100 per cent of its energy from renewables, and also recycles 75 per cent of all its waste - Birchwood Park's management is delighted that they have hit their ESG targets once again.

Martin O’Rourke, commercial director of Birchwood Park said: “Despite a challenging year for the north west commercial property space, we’re proud to report an incredibly strong retention rate alongside a number of new, world-class engineering firms relocating to the park.

“We welcome the Government’s recent announcements of increased investment into nuclear energy and hope this will create new opportunities in our world-class nuclear cluster, which is an integral part of the Warrington economy and already supports over 4,000 jobs in Warrington."

Recent investment into the nuclear industry brings opportunities for Birchwood Park. For decades, Birchwood Park has been at the centre of a World Class cluster of nuclear engineering, home to companies such as Jacobs, Cavendish Nuclear, NNL, Nuvia and Rolls-Royce.

Just recently, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (Nuclear AMRC) settled at its new home in Birchwood Park, signifying a huge milestone in the Park’s expanding nuclear hub.

Martin added: "We also remain committed to continue on our path to becoming net zero in all our managed areas and buildings by 2030, and net zero in all our occupier-managed buildings by 2040."

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