Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP), Rotherham

Overview & Vision

The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) at Waverley is Harworth’s flagship development and is home to some of the World’s biggest manufacturers including Rolls Royce, Boeing and McLaren Automotive. Technology developed at the AMP is already being utilised in leading edge projects including Formula One, the military and commercial aircraft.

Located off Junction 33 of the M1, the highly successful AMP site has been developed on 150-acres of space that forms part of the wider 740-acre Waverley scheme and benefits from Government enterprise zone status within the Sheffield City Region. For more details of the site’s history and wider use, please visit the link above.

The vision of the AMP emerged from the decline that South Yorkshire had suffered in its traditional industries of coal and steel over the last twenty years. Despite this decline, the region had retained established skills and expertise in the areas of advanced manufacturing, backed by materials research expertise within the two Sheffield universities, and other independent research organisations.

The Advanced Manufacturing Park at Waverley – July 2019

Development Progress

Once fully built, the AMP will comprise 1.5m sq ft of commercial space; 0.9m sq ft of which is now built and occupied by over 100 companies including the University of Sheffield (in partnership with Boeing to create the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre), Rolls Royce, Dormer Tools and McLaren Automotive – the latest occupier at the AMP after opening its new technology centre in October 2018 to specialise in the research and production of carbon fibre tubs. The new 75,000 sq ft unit, built by Harworth for McLaren, will employ 250 people.

As part of the AMP, Harworth have also built twelve ‘R-evolution’ units over two phases ranging between 4,961 and 17,359 sq ft in size to support the company’s income generation portfolio. The latest phase of ‘R-evolution’ units – Phase 3 – achieved practical completion in August 2018, delivering a further 55,750 sq ft of employment space with two of these units already leased by existing AMP occupiers, Bodycote, to expand their operations on site.