Can you help choose a name for Herefordshire's newest Enterprise Park? Herefordshire Council is placing a contract for surveys and roadside signage for the county's flagship business park, formerly known as Model Farm in Ross-On-Wye.
Cabinet member for resources, Councillor Harry Bramer, is asking local people if they can come up with a suitable new name that reflects the spirit of enterprise and innovation that the county is famous for.
The Enterprise Park will attract investment from high-value, knowledge-based companies to create quality employment for local people, putting Ross-On-Wye on the map through its innovative design. The design of the layout and infrastructure on the site has already begun and various surveys – including archaeological, ecological and topographical – have already been carried out.
Councillor Bramer is putting up the prize of a £50 book token to the person who comes up with the name that is finally adopted for the scheme. ”We are looking for suggestions that reflect the exciting future that the enterprise park will represent”, he said.
“Names such as Ross Enterprise Park may be a little bland, but there is bound to be a creative person who lives locally who could put forward a name that will help us market to, and attract, enterprising companies from across the country, as well as from within the county”.
The top quality office and workshop space will be built to meet very high energy-efficiency standards and the park may include an area set aside to combine live/work units to reduce costs for start up businesses. Various forms of renewable energy generation are being investigated to power and heat the offices, meeting rooms and small workshops.
The new business park is an exciting prospect will set the benchmark for employment developments in the future.
A decision on the name will be made during November, but in the meantime please forward your suggestion to Joanne Watkins at Herefordshire Council at Brockington, 35 Hafod Rd, Hereford, HR1 1SH or email: JWatkins2@herefordshire.gov.uk