About Strategic Sites & Our Partners
Strategic Sites
Strategic Sites is an innovative property company headed by Paul Barber and supported by Chris Musgrave and Helios Properties PLC. Its activities include development, management, investment and consultancy work. Strategic Sites works in partnership with a wide range of organisations to deliver projects that bring real benefits to people's lives and the environment.
The Waterfront Quarter project is one of many innovative initiatives currently being undertaken by the company.
Kirklees College
Kirkless College came into being in August 2008 through a merger between Dewsbury College and Huddersfield Technical College. It is now one of the largest colleges in the country with a vast range of courses and study options to choose from.
In September 2012, Kirklees College will open a new, state-of-the-art campus at the Waterfront Quarter, Huddersfield. Work is underway on the multi-million pound building which will replace the current centre at New North Road. As one of only thirteen colleges in England given funding by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), the campus will offer first class education and training opportunities.
Kirklees Council
The Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. Kirklees Council is working with Yorkshire Forward, Kirklees College, Strategic Sites Ltd, and Sellers Engineers Ltd to deliver the new Waterfront Quarter in Huddersfield. With Yorkshire Forward backing, the Council has leased part of the site to the College for its new campus, and now owns the commercial development land. The council is helping Sellers Engineers to relocate from the Waterfront to a new factory at Trident Business Park at Leeds Road.
The Council will be jointly funding with Yorkshire Forward infrastructure works in 2011-2012 to create serviced development plots at Waterfront which will be available for sale or lease.
Yorkshire Forward
Yorkshire Forward is the regional development agency, charged with improving the Yorkshire & Humber economy. Working in close partnership with public, private and third sector agencies, Yorkshire Forward provides practical support to our region’s businesses, finance for workforce development and a commitment to maintaining our region’s regeneration activities wherever possible.
Yorkshire Forward has earmarked approximately £6m for the development of Huddersfield Waterfront Quarter, to meet the cost of site acquisitions and a substantial contribution towards site-wide infrastructure works.
Sellers Engineers
Sellers Engineers are world leaders in the design and manufacture of finishing machines for the carpet industry with extensive global references. The Chairman and Directors are committed to building on this success by a policy of continuous development, working closely with the carpet industry.
The Company’s manufacturing base is in Huddersfield and was founded some 99 years ago to service the local cloth industry. They have a second facility at Sellers of America based in Dalton the heart of the American carpet industry covering the USA, Canada and South America. 2011 will see the company relocate to a new manufacturing facility on Leeds Road, Huddersfield.
British Waterways
British Waterways is the public corporation that cares for the 2,200-mile network of canals and rivers in England, Scotland and Wales. Our role is to ensure that the waterways can be used for all to enjoy, now and for many years to come. Our purpose is to protect the historic waterways in our care, to secure and earn the necessary funding, to grow the numbers who value and invest in them and to optimise the public benefit they can deliver.
We are working closely with Kirklees Council and Strategic Sites in the execution of works to improve the Huddersfield Narrow Canal where it passses through the Waterfront Quarter site to achieve mutual objectives.
Greenstreams
Strategic Sites and Kirklees Council are both sponsors of Greenstreams, an environmental charity which aims to promote the greater awareness, use and care of waterways in the Kirklees borough.