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Preston Garden Centre & Coppers Bistro, The St,Preston, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1ED

Guide Price
£1,350,000

Business rates & charges may apply

Christie & Co, Retail
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SECTOR

Out-of-town retail property for sale

Key features

  • Freehold approaching 2 acres
  • Superb newly constructed restaurant
  • Large plant area
  • Affluent local catchment
  • Show garden area
  • EPC B. Funding available subject to status
  • Christie & Co Ref: 4211018

Description

Description

Christie & Co are delighted to be instructed to market this charming freehold garden centre which offers huge potential for a purchaser to acquire a garden centre with a fantastic restaurant, shop and large plant area with huge scope to grow the business. The restaurant has excellent reviews and is a beautiful eatery with a central feature log burning stove and a high specification commercial kitchen.
The garden centre has a shop, large plant area, display gardens which offer scope for further development to increase the range of plants and garden products sold. There are also a number of glasshouses and other buildings that could be repurposed to create further retail areas or additional storage.

Location

The garden centre is located in the village of Preston which lies around 8 miles north east of Canterbury and close to a wide range of coastal towns including Whitstable (15 miles) Margate (10 miles), and Broadstairs (11 miles). The garden centre is well placed to benefit from the large number of tourist and day trippers to this popular region of Kent. The centre also benefits from favourable local demographics with approaching 400,000 people living within 20 km of the site and key affluence indicators such as house prices also being above national average.

External Details

The site is broadly level with a large car park that has been recently upgraded. To the front of the centre is an area for external retail of compost and other larger garden ornaments as well as landscaping products.
The shop has a range of giftware, homeware and garden sundries. There is considerable potential to increase the range of tools, outdoor living and garden furniture as well as house plants, pet foods and products as well as other popular garden centre product lines.

The external retail is well laid out with a good range of plants and trees. As with the internal retail area there is considerable scope to increase the quantity and range of products on offer to increase the revenue achieved from this profitable segment of the garden centre market.

Staff

The business is operated by the restaurant manager, garden centre manager and a team of staff, full details can be provided upon request.

Trading Information

The business had a turnover of £883,440 for the year ending 31 Dec 2021 and 797,208 for the year ending 31 Dec 2022. Full accounting details will be provided to potential buyers upon request.

Business Rates

The current rateable value is £14,250, most owners would qualify for small business rates relief meaning the total
amount payable would be minimal.

Energy Performance Certificates

EPC 1

Brochures

Preston Garden Centre & Coppers Bistro, The St,Preston, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1ED

NEAREST STATIONS

Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode
  • Minster Station4.2 miles
  • Adisham Station4.6 miles
  • Sturry Station4.6 miles

About Christie & Co, Retail

Whitefriars House, 6 Carmelite Street, London, EC4Y 0BS

We’re the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors - hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical.

If you’re looking to buy or sell a business in our specialist sectors – from a pharmacy in Sussex to a hotel in Austria – our expert advice and collaborative support will help you achieve your goals. You may be an independent first-time buyer or a multinational adding to your portfolio; either way, you’ll discover that our personalised service is focused on helping you achieve your ambitions.

Clients have access to our carefully managed network of potential buyers. This unique database of contacts has been continually developed by our advanced IT capabilities and benefits from both our years of experience developing our network and our wide geographical coverage.

Where we work

We employ the largest team of sector specialists in the UK and the largest group of hotel specialists in Europe, providing professional brokerage and advisory services from offices in major cities across Britain and Europe. And because we’ve been doing this for over 80 years, we know our sectors and local markets inside out. We work closely with our clients to guide and conclude transactions of any size, covering hotels, restaurants and pubs, leisure, forecourts and convenience retail businesses, social care and elderly care, childcare & education facilities, dental practices and pharmacies.

Our professional services

We offer unrivalled insight, experience and expertise across your choice of services, including brokerage, consultancy, finance, development, investment, surveying, rent reviews, dispute resolution, corporate valuation, and turnaround & recovery. These services are all underpinned by our in-depth market intelligence and leading-edge technology. And we’re accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), so you can trust in our professionalism.

What makes us tick

Businesses are about people, so relationships matter to us. We bring an integrity and transparency to business which can be all too rare – and that’s why people trust us. Our clients will attest to our genuine desire to help achieve their objectives, our attention to detail, and our tireless hard work on their behalf. We understand that buying a business can bring its own pressures and strains; needs can change, plans may need to be adjusted, and opportunities can come and go. But we’re always here, a constant, flexible and reliable force you can count on.

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