Location – The ‘Golden Triangle’

The term the ‘Golden Triangle’ is described best by the area that falls between London, Oxford, Cambridge (encompassing Milton Keynes), that has achieved impressive business growth across numerous sectors including transport, digital technology, innovation, medicine and more. It refers to this area of the UK as having excellent connectivity to the North, South, East and West, being within a 4–5 hour drive of 90% of the UK population, thus making it a prime location.

The Golden Triangle originated to describe what was seemingly becoming an area of the UK with outstanding connectivity to local motorways and other major transport infrastructure, and in return benefiting business growth within the rough perimeters of the area as described above.

Quarry Hall Business Park, Milton Keynes is situated nicely within the Golden Triangle, and we attribute a lot of our success and appeal to this notion.

Notably, six of the top ten most productive cities in the UK in 2022 fall within the Golden triangle, with productivity at its highest in London and Milton Keynes, due the nature of the M1 corridor.

According to ONS, in 2021, the UK had 88% more transport and storage business premises than in 2011 and 21% more than in 2019; the number of road transport freight businesses increased by 114% between 2011 and 2019 and the number of postal and courier businesses by 147%. A lion percentage of this growth was situated within the Golden Triangle, and they also note that the East Midlands accounts for the largest regional warehouse construction spending in 2021 in the UK.