Business<br />Profiles 
Jaynic continues to build a strong reputation for promoting land through the planning system for residential and employment use and for the development of high-quality business and logistics parks.
The company concentrates its development activities throughout East Anglia with a focus on the A14/A11 between Cambridge and Felixstowe where 9.76m sq ft of warehouse and business space has planning consent or is in the pipeline.
Development of the major 2.36m sq ft Gateway 14 mixed-use project at Junction 50 of the A14 in Stowmarket is moving ahead rapidly where Jaynic is the development partner with Gateway 14 Ltd, owned by Mid Suffolk District Council.
At Gateway 14, Stowmarket construction has just started on a 44,000 sq ft unit for leading roofing manufacturer Bauder and this will be followed by an 86,565 sq ft factory and warehouse unit for Assan Panel. Both companies are manufacturers of eco-friendly construction materials.
A planning application has also been submitted for a new skills & innovation centre for Mid-Suffolk District Council who, in partnership with West Suffolk College and the Universities of Suffolk and Essex, aim to address the skills gaps locally in the region.
In May planning permission was obtained for a new 164,500 sq ft manufacturing and/or warehouse unit at Gateway 14. The planning application was submitted speculatively in order to maintain momentum on delivering further high-quality buildings which means the building can be ready for an occupier within 9-12 months on a freehold or leasehold basis.
The 1.17m sq ft distribution facility for home, garden and leisure products retailer The Range has been fitted out and is fully operational.
Sustainability is a central feature of Gateway 14 with building designs that are to BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and include, an EPC A rating, EV charging, LED lighting, solar PV, smart energy systems and rainwater harvesting, delivering low carbon and net zero solutions where possible.
Gateway 14 benefits from being part of Freeport East, one of only eight freeports in the UK. The freeport status will provide many businesses on Gateway 14 with a range of benefits including a suite of tax reliefs and simplified customs arrangements.
At Suffolk Park in Bury St Edmunds, it has had great success with major national brewing name Greene King. In 2022 it agreed a deal to relocate its ageing distribution centre, in Cullum Road, which employs about 150 people, to a new 161,344 sq ft facility at Suffolk Park.
Then in April this year Jaynic agreed terms with Greene King, to move from its historic Westgate Street site to a new brewery at Suffolk Park next door to its new warehouse. A planning application has been submitted and a decision is expected imminently.
Jaynic has just one highly prominent 5.32-acre site remaining at Suffolk Park in Bury St Edmunds with reserved matters planning permission for a 78,100 sq ft warehouse building, which could be delivered within 9 months on either a freehold or a leasehold basis.
As a result, the whole 2m sq ft Suffolk Park scheme that was expected to take up to 10 years to develop will have been completed, subject to the final northern phase, in six years. Occupiers on the site already include M H Star, Dellonda, Bleckmann, Treatt, Sealey, Unipart Logistics, Skechers, Evri and the East of England Ambulance Trust.
At Stour Business Park, Little Wratting on the A143 between Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds, Jaynic has planning consent for B8 open storage use. The developer plans to let the space to an open storage occupier in the short to medium term with a view to seeking an allocation for a larger scheme in the local development plan.
Jaynic works in partnership with landowners and occupiers for warehouse and business park development throughout Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex that is being, or is earmarked, for development.
The company is the land promotion partner on a 41-acre prime site on the A14 at Boxworth to the south of Cambridge Services, where it will be seeking B2 and B8 employment uses and is included within the South Cambridgeshire District Council’s draft preferred options document. The site has huge potential for a regional/sub-regional warehouse/business park scheme of up to 580,000 sq ft.
Jaynic is also progressing other commercial land promotion projects including a130-acre site at Barton Mills south of the Fiveways roundabout adjacent to the A11 and a 25-acre site on the north side of Bury St Edmunds just off of Fornham Road.
Work also continues on its potential residential schemes including a strategic 270-acre site at Rougham Hill, Bury St Edmunds where there is the potential for 1,440 houses, and another 70 acres at Needham Market.
At Haverhill Research Park, Jaynic’s EpiCentre innovation building has a mix of biotech and life science occupiers in the laboratory space and more broadly based occupiers in the office space. Run by Oxford Innovation Space, the UK’s leading operator of innovation centres with 32 managed facilities around the British Isles. Strategically located near Cambridge and part of the South Cambridge Business and Technology Cluster, The EpiCentre is ideal for growing businesses.
A further 35,000 sq ft of E(g) light industrial/office and R&D space could be built on an adjoining 2 acre site.
Managing director Nic Rumsey, says: “We continue to be very active in the eastern counties. With our in-depth knowledge of the region we believe we are ideally placed to bring projects forward, secure planning consents and develop them out. We are happy to discuss flexible arrangements with landowners where they can share the development upside on a joint venture basis if they wish to maximise their receipts”.
