Since our formation in 2001, Aquila has developed and sold properties with a combined gross development value in excess of £300m.
The leading retail and business park in Ipswich. We acquired this heavily contaminated 45-acre former Steelworks site and delivered a 600,000 sq ft master plan. We developed and sold the site over a period of 10 years.
new pre-let B2/B8 warehouse for Hubbard Daikin air conditioning, forward sold to BMO.
John Lewis at Home and Waitrose, forward sold to British Steel Pension Fund.
retail park pre-let to Oak Furniture Land, DFS, Furniture Village, Carphone Warehouse, and Costa, forward sold to Royal London.
to Lidl, Audi, Volvo, Jaguar Landrover, Mazda and Lok’nStore.
We acquired the former St Martin’s College of Art building on Charing Cross Road in partnership with the Foyles family to deliver a new flagship Foyles store and warehouse loft apartments.
flagship retail store for Foyles.
constructed and sold, with interiors by Darling Associates.
We secured consent for a 61-unit residential scheme in the heart of Chelmsford City centre and sold the site to Stonebond Properties.
one and two-bedroom affordable rent and shared ownership apartments.
sold to Stonebond Properties.
We acquired this site with an existing consent for 13 homes. We redesigned the scheme securing a revised consent for 24 homes and sold to Chelmer Housing Partnership.
Located prominently on Chelmsford High Street, we acquired and redeveloped a dilapidated 1960s building with accommodated pre-lets to Five Guys, Costa, and Slater Menswear.
retail space.
office space.
We purchased and redeveloped a former railway goods yard to deliver a new food-anchored retail park located prominently in Maldon town centre, with tenants including Aldi, Next and Sports Direct.
retail space with pre-lets to Aldi, Next, Sports Direct, Greggs, Home Bargains, and Costa.
car park.
We acquired the former Fratton Park football stadium car park from a receiver and secured planning consent for a Tesco superstore in a joint 50:50 venture with Pears Property.
supermarket, pre-let to Tesco.
We purchased multiple freeholds to unlock the redevelopment of this prominent site on Barnes High Street, London. The site includes a new Marks & Spencer Foodhall, 7 apartments, and office suites.
supermarket pre-let to Marks & Spencer.
to Abrdn.
We acquired a former DIY store via a joint venture partnership and secured planning for Waitrose’s first food store in Colchester.
supermarket pre-let to Waitrose.
to M&G Investments.
Located in Chelmsford City Centre, we acquired the land and secured planning for the construction of 72 luxury riverfront apartments and two ground floor restaurants.
let to Prezzo and Giggling Squid. Restaurant units retained by Aquila.
to Higgins Homes.