Who We Are
HANFORD HOLDINGS is a real estate investment company based in South West England. Hanford Holdings is the sole owner of Bourne Park, an industrial site on the outskirts of Dorchester. Bourne Park is a commercial centre of excellence for businesses, sustainability and green energy.
Bourne Park occupies a total area of 500 acres, including a 400-acre farm, fourteen industrial warehouses, a ruminant feed mill, an anaerobic digestion plant and multiple solar farms. All businesses operating on Bourne Park benefit from the green energy produced onsite. The National Grid-connected substation on Bourne Park is owned solely by Hanford Holdings, so any excess power is sold back to the grid, benefiting local businesses and homes.
Over the next decade, Hanford Holdings aims to increase the number of industrial units on Bourne Park, thereby improving local employment and economic growth. Hanford Holdings also seeks to increase the amount of clean energy produced on-site, thus helping the battle against the ongoing energy crisis.
In addition to the Bourne Park project, Hanford Holdings has a residential development arm, Hanford Developments. To find out more about Hanford Developments, please click here. (Website comming soon)
Bourne Park - Piddlehinton, Dorchester
Ingram (Bing) Spencer
Founder
Cameron Spencer
Managing Director
James Shanahan
Energy Consultant
The Bourne Park
Real Estate & Energy Portfolio
Raw Material Warehouse
Current Tenants - Mole Valley Farmers
Built in 2019, this state-of-the-art raw material warehouse has five separate storage bays, a tipping bay and a large yard area.
Imported products used include Sugar Beet Pulp (SBP) pellets, wheat, barley and rape all of which is delivered in by bulker lorry and sourced from local farms and British Sugar (ABN Foods). Some are imported through Portland Port, a local family run the port who also have a farm neighbouring Bourne Farm.
East Piggery
Current Tenants - Allen (Hanford) Ltd
East Piggery is specifically a finishing unit for the prodgeny of adjacent Bourne Farm.
Five piggery buildings, 16,200 internal square feet. The pigs are fed using home-grown cereals, and the pig muck is then spread across the fields as fertiliser.
This site provides 3 jobs for the local economy.
Ruminant Feed Mill
Current Tenants - Mole Valley Farmers
This feed mill is designated to ruminant feed production only and produces over 100,000 tons of compound feed annually.
Mole Valley focuses on supplying farmers with direct-to-farm bulk agricultural products and wild bird food.
The site provides over 30 jobs directly and supports local businesses and the economy.
Farm Land
Current Tenants - Allen (Hanford) Ltd
400 Acres of Arrable Farmland. Growing wheat, barley, maize, beans and oil seed rape.
Farming this land provides work for over 5 people throughout the year and helps feed the local community.
Anaerobic Digestion Plant
Current Tenants - ECO Sustainable Solutions
Eco Sustainable Solutions is a waste processing company based in Christchurch, Dorset. The plant on Bourne Park uses a Weltec anaerobic digester, which generates 1.5MW of electricity. Some of this electricity is consumed on-site by Hanford tenants, and the balance is sent to the National Grid for local homes and businesses. Plans are underway to double the plants output.
The plant also produces liquid digestate, which is transported in both road/ lorry tankers and tractor/tankers for use as a fertilizer on agricultural land.
This AD Plant provides over 5 local jobs directly and around 10 jobs indirectly.
The Engineering Building
Current Tenants - Dorset Wellbeing & Pixie Innovations
10,887 sq ft Industrial Warehouse with large outside yard area.
Dorset Wellbeing provides therapeutic support & bespoke education to children & young people across Dorset. Dorset Wellbeing employs 30 people to help educate hundreds of local young people every year.
Pixie Innovations is a small woodwork manufacturing company and occupies 20% of the building.
Agricultural Buildings
Current Tenants - Allen (Hanford) Ltd
These buildings provide grain storage, farm machinery storage, workshop facilities, and a large yard area.
This space is crucial to the operation of the Farm itself.
The Office Building
Current Tenants - AGVANCED & Juvo Enterprises
8,060 sq ft of flexible office space with a large car park and secure yard area.
AGVANCED is an electrical engineering company that employs over 10 people.
Juvo Enterprises is an educational service that employs over 5 people and benefits the community by providing education to local young people. Juvo Enterprises also benefits from 0.8 acres of woodland adjacent to the building.
Light Warehouse
Current Tennants - ACH Farms
ACH is a local haulage company that employs truck drivers to transport goods across South England
A 1,500-square-foot industrial warehouse. There is yard area with parking facilities for several HGV’s.
Bourne Park Solar
This solar farm has an installed capacity of 2.5MW of electricity, which is fed through Hanford Holding’s Substation and is sent directly to the National Grid.
240KW of this is distributed on site for tenants’ consumption.
The Future Expansion of Bourne Park
Local Authority Sustainability objectives
Provide net gains for biodiversity
Protect soil quality and conserve geological conservation interests
Maintain or improve water quality
Improve and maintain air quality
Preserve and enhance the historic environment
Promote wellbeing and healthy communities for all
7. Deliver a wide choice of high-quality homes and infrastructure
8. Build a strong, responsive, and competitive economy
The development of Bourne Park has achieved net gains for six out of eight of the local authorities’ sustainability objectives and a neutral impact on the remaining two. The use of heavy vehicles may have had some negative impact on air quality, which has been largely offset by planting trees and crops, the employment of local resources and recycling of locally produced waste.
Bourne Park is not within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Whilst it is sited alongside the Dorset AONB a landscape buffer was planted some years ago and provides an effective screen.
Landscape and Biodiversity
Hanford Holdings has carried out significant planting with tree belts and copses comprised mainly of indigenous species to the north, west and south of the built complex. Hanford Holdings has constructed surface water ponds in a natural landscape formation. This planting has provided significant screening of the built complex and enhanced biodiversity.
Access
Bourne Park is situated approximately 5km to the north of Dorchester and to the east of Piddlehinton. There is a road east from the village which passes the site. It is for part of its length only single vehicle width and the policy of the site owners is that traffic especially HGV should not use this road or travel along the Piddle Valley. All Hanford Holdings tenants are instructed not to allow their HGV drivers to use this road. Instead they must enter and leave by way of Enterprise Park. Failure to comply with this instruction would most likely result in the non-renewal of their lease.
The main route is therefore south to London Road, Dorchester or south and east to join the trunk road at its junction with the A354. Both routes comprise two single lane carriageway roads. The main pinch point is a sharp bend approximately 400 metres east of the entrance to Enterprise Park. Whilst this has not caused any significant problem to date, Hanford Holdings owns land that would enable a road improvement at that location.
The site is within cycling distance of the urban area of Dorchester. There are a few country bus services passing Enterprise Park. There are many footpaths and bridleways to Dorchester in the south.
Substation
This substation directly connects all electric production activities throughout Bourne Park to the National Grid.
The possibility remains of increasing the amount of electricity produced on site.
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