Tooting High Street, London, SW17

Description:- The property comprises a good-sized former Thai restaurant available to let under a new lease. The property is arranged over ground and basement levels, with the ground floor being slightly split-level in arrangement. The property has a good frontage to Tooting High Street, is air-conditioned (not tested) and has the benefit of extraction equipment installed (not tested). The property is laid out as a main front seating area, central kitchen and further seating area, male and female WCs, and a rear preparation area. In addition, there is overspill seating in the lower ground floor. There is a rear service alley and fire escape.

Location:- The property fronts Tooting High Street, set amongst a mixture of multiple and more local traders. The property is a short walk from Tooting Broadway Underground Station and numerous bus routes service the locality, with a bus stop being positioned virtually immediately outside the subject property. Nearby multiples include a major Sainsbury's supermarket which is opposite, Halifax Bank, HSBC, Gourmet Burger Company, Foxtons, Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, and Honest Burgers. Tooting High Street forms part of the main A24, and the property is extremely visible to large volumes of passing vehicular traffic and a good deal of foot flow generated by nearby traders and the bus stops etc.

Accommodation

Gross frontage: 5.9m

Internal width: 5.87m narrowing to 4.92m after 2.415m

Front area depth: 8.09m

Front sales area: 36.88m² (397ft² approx.)

Open plan kitchen/Additional seating: 31.44m² (338ft² approx.)

Rear prep area: 21.95m² (236ft² approx.)

Basement/additional seating: 32.92m² (350ft² approx.)

Tenure:- The property is offered by way of a new lease, the length of which is to be negotiated.

Rent:- An initial rent of £55,000 (Fifty five thousand pounds) per annum exclusive is sought.

EPC:- The property has an EPC rating of 41 within band B.

Business Rates:-  The property is currently not on the Valuation Office Agency rating list. Interested parties should make their own enquiries of the local rating authority prior to offer.

VAT:- We understand that the premises is not elected to VAT.

Use / Planning:- We understand the property would fall within Class E and has been used for several years as a restaurant specialising in Thai food. The property has extraction equipment installed, for which planning was granted in 2013.

Interested parties should make enquiries of the local authority in respect of their intended use prior to offer.