SIX new warehouses have been completed in the second phase of Harworth Group's Logistics North site.

Two of the units at Multiply — a 270,848 sq ft joint venture between Harworth and the Lancashire County Pension Fund — are already let on long-term leases.

Smart meter installation and maintenance business UW Homes Services Ltd, has agreed to let Unit F2/C, a 30,577 sq ft unit, on a 10-year lease at a headline rent for the North West of £7.75 per sq ft.

Rijo42, the UK’s leading supplier of commercial coffee machines, coffee beans and coffee ingredients will rent 20,404 sq ft of space at Unit F2/E on a 15-year term at a rent of £7.25 per sq ft.

Harworth says the Multiply has been delivered in response to the lack of high quality warehouse space in the North West.

B8 Real Estate and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) acted as joint agents for Harworth on both transactions.

It follows the completion of the first phase of three bigger units at Multiply ranging from 44,868 sq ft to 62,952 sq ft in in December 2017. Hardscape, the UK’s premier landscaping material supplier, took the first unit in April on a 15-year lease.

Harworth received outline planning consent for Logistics North, the largest live commercial development in the North West of England, at the end of December 2013. To date, over 2.5m sq ft of commercial space has been built with a further 1m sq ft either under construction or committed to be built.

More than 5,000 people are employed on the site by occupiers including Amazon, Aldi, Whistl, MBDA, Greene King, Costa and Komatsu.

Once complete, Harworth says the development will deliver over 6,000 jobs and add around £300 million in Gross Value Added to the Greater Manchester economy per annum.