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£700,000

Apollo House, Birch Wood Drive, Peterlee

Land size
0.96 acres
Use Class
Use Class: B2

Key Features

  • Large Commercial Shed For Sale
  • Land At The Front With Parking On Site
  • Planning For Industrial Unit

Description

For Sale: Apollo House, Bracken Hill Business Park, Peterlee, SR8 2RS

Bracken Hill Business Park is a modern campus development which has grown steadily over the past 20 years. It is ideally located to the south east of Peterlee town centre, just 0.5 miles from the A19, offering fast and easy access to the Teesside / Tyne and Wear conurbation.

Apollo House, Accessed from Whitehouse Way or Birchwood Way was once an office that has been stripped back to a shell and has planning granted to convert into an industrial unit. It is across two floors with space totalling 42,000sq ft.

The included land at the front, rear and side bring the total site footprint to 1.5 acres.

Available for £700,000

Map Location

Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
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Date Posted
2026-07-17

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

54 Mbps

Superfast · available to 57% of premises

Suitable for

  • HD streaming
  • Video calls
  • Web & social

Mobile signal

OutdoorsIndoorsEE Good GoodO2 Good LimitedThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Howletch Lane Primary School0.6 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    382
    Type
    Community school
  • Shotton Hall Primary School0.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    350
    Type
    Community school
  • Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School1 mileOfsted: Good
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    191
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Shotton Primary School1.1 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    289
    Type
    Community school
  • Acre Rigg Infant School1.2 milesOfsted report card · May 2026
    Ages
    2 to 7
    Pupils
    252
    Type
    Community school

Secondary

  • The Academy at Shotton Hall0.7 milesOfsted: Outstanding
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,202
    Type
    Academy converter
  • St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College0.8 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    891
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Wellfield School1.6 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    862
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Easington Academy2 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    769
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Dene Academy2 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    638
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Sainsburys Peterlee Passfield Way Local, Peterlee809 metres
Sainsburys Peterlee Local, Peterlee880 metres
Morrisons Daily Peterlee Oakerside Drive, Peterlee0.9 miles

GP surgery

Bevan Medical Group0.9 miles

Pharmacy

Shotton Pharmacy1 mile

Hospital

Peterlee Community Hospital1.4 miles

Green space

Play Space748 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Horden2.4 miles

Nearest bus stop

Turning Circle95 metres

Typical drive times

Seaham12 min · 7.8 miles
Peterlee5 min · 2.3 miles
Hetton-le-Hole14 min · 6.8 miles
Sunderland (city)18 min · 12 miles
Houghton-le-Spring16 min · 12 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

Environment Agency open data, checked around the advertised map pin for the listed acreage. Long-term risk counts flood defences; the planning map's flood zones do not. Provided by LandSale, not the listing agent, and not part of the agent's particulars. Risk varies across a holding, so verify before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Very low risk

Planning map: Flood Zone 1.

Surface water

Medium to low risk (1 in 100 to 1 in 1000)

Not at the pin: mapped about 20 metres away.

These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.

Important notice: Information, maps and tags on this page are drawn from the advertising agent's marketing materials or generated automatically. LandSale has not verified them. Relying on these details is at your own risk, always carry out independent checks before committing to a purchase.

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