The former Lookers dealership on Cowdray Avenue, Colchester was for many years a combined Volvo and Land Rover dealership, occupying a substantial automotive site with showrooms, workshops, servicing facilities, offices and a large forecourt. The site has since become a former car dealership, with the buildings and workshops still identifiable as an automotive premises.
Its history as a Lookers operation goes back to 2006, when Lookers bought six dealerships from H.R. Owen for approximately £5.4 million. The acquisition included Land Rover and Volvo dealerships in Colchester, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds. This brought the Colchester franchises into the expanding Lookers group.
The Land Rover dealership remained on Cowdray Avenue for around 20 years. By the mid-2010s it had outgrown the site as Land Rover sales increased, prompting plans for a much larger purpose-built dealership at Axial Way. Contemporary reports said the new site would provide a 10,500 m² development, a purpose-built showroom and workshop, and around 200 parking spaces.
The new Land Rover site opened in November 2017, following a reported £7 million investment. The move left the old Cowdray Avenue premises behind, while the new dealership was designed to accommodate nine new vehicles, 55 used vehicles and 17 workshop bays.
*ACCESS INFO REMOVED* The inside consists of various staff rooms and warehouses.
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Its history as a Lookers operation goes back to 2006, when Lookers bought six dealerships from H.R. Owen for approximately £5.4 million. The acquisition included Land Rover and Volvo dealerships in Colchester, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds. This brought the Colchester franchises into the expanding Lookers group.
The Land Rover dealership remained on Cowdray Avenue for around 20 years. By the mid-2010s it had outgrown the site as Land Rover sales increased, prompting plans for a much larger purpose-built dealership at Axial Way. Contemporary reports said the new site would provide a 10,500 m² development, a purpose-built showroom and workshop, and around 200 parking spaces.
The new Land Rover site opened in November 2017, following a reported £7 million investment. The move left the old Cowdray Avenue premises behind, while the new dealership was designed to accommodate nine new vehicles, 55 used vehicles and 17 workshop bays.
*ACCESS INFO REMOVED* The inside consists of various staff rooms and warehouses.
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Light industrial facility for sale in Former Car Dealership, 196 Cowdray Avenue, Colchester, Essex, CO1 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Nicholas Percival Commercial, Colchester
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