Hartington Staveley East Midlands Investment Zone is an exciting regeneration site in Chesterfield.
Located close to the M1 corridor, it offers a strategic opportunity for local businesses to work closely with landowners, central and local government and partners to bring forward developments.
The Investment Zone focuses on creating new innovation and employment space for the advanced manufacturing and clean energy sectors. For qualifying businesses within these sectors, the Investment Zone is able to offer incentives aimed at driving economic growth and generating thousands of high quality jobs. Potential benefits for qualifying businesses include:
- Business Rates relief for eligible new businesses, subject to the companies occupying being either advanced manufacturing or clean energies, and certain existing businesses which are expanding
- Stamp Duty Land Tax relief
- employer National Insurance Relief for new employees
- enhanced capital allowance for expenditure on plant and machinery
- enhanced structures and buildings allowance
For further details see the HMRC Investment Zones Information Pack.
The East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) is the accountable body for East Midlands Investment Zone (EMIZ) and will oversee and manage the implementation of the initiative.
There are two specialist tax sites included in the scheme:
- Hartington Business Park which has units due to be completed October 2026 ranging from 2717 sq ft to 34,016 sq ft
- Hartington Commerce Park which has outline permission for units ranging from 20,000 sq ft up to 700,000 sq ft, the first phase of which are due to be fitted out by Quarter 1 2027
The former Staveley Chemical works which comprises 170 acres, potentially offering around 1.5 m sq ft of built form, is also part of the EMIZ but there are no special tax incentives.
It is a blank canvas for occupiers which comprises a future brown field development site awaiting remediation which is connected to the W12 gauge rail network capable of accommodating the largest train cargo loads and connected to major ports and former power stations across the UK. It also benefits from signalling and other key rail infrastructure being in situ.
| Hartington Business Park Brochure |  (PDF 3.71 MB) |
| Hartington Commerce Park Brochure | (PDF 5.71 MB) |
