Finding Premises


Whether you are just starting out, or looking to expand, you need to be able to find the right premises. For more links to environmental and pollution checks, see our page on Land or follow up our section on Area Profiling.

WDA: Commercial properties & sites in Wales
A database of sites and premises located throughout Wales, compiled by the Welsh Development Agency. Includes aerial photographs, descriptions, specifications, and maps showing locations. (Requires online registration, which is free.)

Property Solutions
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) website contains a useful guide about business premises. The guide, entitled 'Property Solutions: A Practical Guide for your Business', is divided into four sections, covering issues such as finding the right premises and planning property cashflow.

A Code of Practice for Commercial Leases - in England and Wales
A new voluntary Code of Practice for commercial property leases has been announced, which aims to offer certainty to investors and more choice and information for occupiers, particularly small businesses.

South Wales Property Online
Property for sale from the South Wales Evening Post. Includes adverts and news on commercial premises for sale or let.

upmystreet.com
For the facts about where you live, including property prices, crime statistics and council tax.

HM Land Registry
The Land Registry guarantees the title to, and records the ownership of, interests in registered land in England and Wales. You can download Form 313 which is the form that you need to use to find out who owns a particular property.

Trends in the UK residential property market
Regularly reported by the major mortgage lenders, notably the Nationwide Building Society and the Halifax. Both give an analysis of the market as a whole and for different areas of the country, as well as providing tables of average prices by region. For more accurate prices of properties in England and Wales the Land Registry Property Prices Database is the place to go.

Corporate Location
On-line version of Corporate Location, the magazine for companies trying to expand overseas. To access vital statistics, comment, articles, contacts and maps on 200 countries and 50 US states. Alternatively, interrogate on-line live database through speedsearch (search your location by labour costs, skills and flexibility, market size and growth, incentives, utility costs and other factors ) or location tips (discover the best and worst locations for your industry).

Local councils can help you when you are looking for premises. We include some examples:

(If you want to check your own local council website, follow the links in our Who to Contact pages.)

Gwynedd County Council
The Council has 115 workshops to let at 19 locations throughout the County. Plus further information about technology parks and sites within the area.

Neath Port Talbot County Borough
Contact the Economic Development Unit for details of numerous industrial estates and small workshop developments which can offer virtually any size of factory unit or site that may be required.

Choose Pembrokeshire
Collaborative initiative between the Welsh Development Agency and Pembrokeshire County Council; the Partnership aims to develop the region to provide bespoke sites, accommodating businesses across diverse sectors.