A new Bradford business park is proving a winner with small firms.

Yorkshire Enterprise has let the majority of its 11-unit Enterprise Court on Prince Street, off Tong Street, Bradford.

Eight of the units, which were backed with European Union cash, have been let or are finalising letting units.

One of them, Go-Plant, is based in Loughborough and has moved its northern depot from another site in Bradford.

Other firms on the business park are Eastgate Industries, an electrical goods wholesaler, Gregdean, a manufacturer of hospital bed mattresses and Apex, the Bradford division of the national parcel delivery franchise.

Don Law, managing director of Yorkshire Enterprise, said: "We are pleased with the interest that the new units have promoted. With a speculative venture, you're never quite sure how the market will respond

"We pitched the scheme at what we saw was a gap in the market. Assuming the deals under discussion at the moment all come to a successful conclusion, our confidence in Bradford will have been justified."

He said the reason for investing in the city were that it had a large, growing and adaptable workforce, rent levels that were more competitive with those in Leeds and Manchester and has a quarter of a million businesses within a 70-mile radius of the centre.

"It would be very hard to find another centre that has this same combination," he added.

The Enterprise Court development, which has been project managed by the Rushbond Group and is let by Eddisons Commercial and Carters, has won cash from the European Union to get it off the ground.

Mr Law added: "Without the money from Europe we would not have been able to make the figures stack up."

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