Crook Rd
Kendal LA8 8QJ

The property forms part Plumgarths Lakeland Food & Business Park just off the Plumgarths Roundabout and A591 at the Kendal North junction in the Lake Dis- trict National Park. Kendal is the principal town of South Lakeland with a resident population of 29,495 (2011 Census) and is a popular tourist destination being 10 miles south of Windermere. The town has a weighted retail catchment in excess of 50,000 people and a greater district catchment in excess of 102,000. The district’s Class Grouping indicates that in excess of 50% of the catchment area is of A, B or C demographic. There is a lively town centre which benefits from local and tourism trade from the Lake District National Park with a good mix of local, regional and national retailers and leisure outlets. There are two main shopping centres, Elephant Yard which has occupiers such as Next, Boots and Costa Coffee and the Westmorland Shopping Centre which has Clarks Shoes, Waterstones and EE. The town centre also has a Marks and Spencer’s, Booths Supermarket, Lidl and a Tesco Metro. The Westmorland Shopping Centre has an indoor market and, on a Wednesday and Saturday the adjacent Market Place has around 20 open air stalls. As well as all year-round tourism, Kendal benefits from a number of festivals and events. Kendal has a good academic provision with a number of primary schools, two secondary schools that have sixth form colleges and Kendal College which occupies three campus sites around the town. The Brewery Arts Centre holds regular theatre and performance events, has a cinema and there are a number of walk and cycle routes in the surrounding areas in addition to the nearby Lake District National Park. Oxenholme Train Station which is situated on the West Coast main railway line is located 3 miles to the south providing direct services to London (approximate journey time 2 hours 50 minutes) and Glasgow (1 hour 45 minutes). Lakeland Food & Business Park is situated adjacent to the A5284 Crook Road im- mediately west of Plumgarths roundabout therefore providing excellent road communications into Kendal via the A5284 Windermere Road, the town centre being around 2 miles away, Junction 36 of the M6 from the A591, circa 6 miles away and to Bowness and Windermere in the heart of the Lake District National Park which are around 7 miles to the northwest.