New Roman Bank, Terrington St. Clement

Belmont Nurseries The nurseries comprise an extensive range of horticultural buildings and 52 acres of level land which can be accessed at several points off New Roman Bank and Long Road. The farm buildings have evolved over fifty years, growing as the business grew.

Glasshouses Over 5 acres of mainly aluminium framed glasshouses, most are double and triple span with a mixture of 3½- 4m eaves. The 237,430 ft² (22,066 m²) of glasshouses benefit from a Priva environmental system, providing automatic control of light, heat and humidity through control of the vents, screens, overhead watering and trickly irrigation. In addition, there are about 54,000 ft² (4,944m²) of poly tunnel frames. In addition, there is a lapsed planning consent (16/01373/F) for an additional 1.2 acres (5,134m²) of glasshouse situated adjacent to the reservoir.

Refrigerated Stores Adjacent to the Glasshouses are 34,938 ft² (3,247m²) of refrigerated storage (including 2 pack house cold stores). The stores are housed in a range of steel portal framed buildings with tin cladding and corrugates fibre cement roofs. The stores have a mixture of foam insultation and panel insulation and benefit from Priva environmental computer-controlled temperature and environmental controls including Heat/Cooling with Fresh Air Ventilation enabling specialist Bulb storage. Some stores also include Ozone Air purification system to ensure the control of Ethylene in flower and bulb storage.

Farm Buildings There are a broad range of modern farm buildings which are used for machinery and equipment storage and as well as providing cover for various cleaning, washing and packing lines.

Photovoltaic Solar Panels and Woodchip Boiler • Solar Panels - An array of 204 50kw/ hour panels, erected in 2012 • Woodchip Boiler - providing 998kw heat FiT and RHI payments are available from the Vendors’ agents.

There are three water storage tanks adjacent to the buildings: - 2 x 40,000lt tanks and one 20,000lt tank.

Farmland The farmland lies immediately to the North of the glasshouses in a compact and regular shape. It is level and is accessed either via the buildings or at various points along Long Road. The Land is Classified Grade 1 with the soil belonging to the highly regarded Wisbech Series, a Marine Alluvium of deep stoneless calcareous silt soils suitable for growing a wide range of root crops, field vegetables and horticultural crops.

The land is served by a holding reservoir of over 5,000,000lts which is filled by rainwater off the roofs of the glass houses. In 2016 an electric pump and pipe system was installed for irrigation enabling 740 acres (300 Ha) of adjoining land to be irrigated for flowers or niche crops such as carrots and leaks etc. Typically, this can provide up to 15,000,000lts of water each year.

Company Sale The Vendors are prepared to consider a sale of the PS & JE Ward Ltd to include the Belmont Nursery. The accountants Chavereys have prepared a company valuation which is available to interested parties subject to signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement, which is available from the Vendors’ agents.

This property has 65.07 acres of land.