At Broadland Business Park, we are proud to provide an exceptional environment where businesses can thrive. Combining high quality, modern workspaces with excellent transport links and a landscaped setting, the Park offers the perfect balance of accessibility, convenience and wellbeing. Our diverse community of occupiers, from local enterprises to national and international organisations, benefits from first class facilities, on site amenities and a supportive, well managed environment designed to help every business reach its full potential.
Broadland Business Park is more than just a place to work — it’s a thriving haven for wildlife. Carefully installed bat, bird, and owl boxes dot the landscape, encouraging a rich variety of species to call the Park home. Stroll through the grounds and you might spot moorhens skimming across the lake, wagtails darting playfully, or herons standing watchfully by the water’s edge. Magpies, mallards, foxes, and rabbits also make regular appearances, drawn by the Park’s serene lake, native planting, and mature woodland.
But it’s not just the larger creatures that flourish here. The air buzzes with life, from shimmering dragonflies to delicate damselflies, weaving through reeds and wildflowers. Together, these creatures create a vibrant ecosystem — a living tapestry that sets Broadland Business Park apart as a place where business and biodiversity thrive side by side.
At Broadland Business Park, the landscaping goes beyond aesthetics — it’s thoughtfully crafted to harmonise with the natural surroundings while nurturing biodiversity. Carefully selected plants and habitats invite native wildlife, encouraging birds, pollinators, and small mammals to flourish alongside the built environment.
An annual tree survey ensures the continued vitality of the park’s green spaces. Any trees showing signs of decline are responsibly removed and replaced, maintaining the continuity of the woodland copses and tree-lined avenues that give the park its distinctive character.
Tucked along Memorial Way, the Memorial Gardens offer a serene retreat. Centered around the Polish War Memorial, this peaceful space is a place of reflection and remembrance — a living tribute set among tranquil landscaping.
Broadland Business Park, on the eastern gateway to Norwich, has grown since the late 1990s into one of the region’s most prestigious business locations. Planning permission was secured in 1997, and by the early 2000s, the first infrastructure and office buildings were complete, welcoming the Park’s earliest occupiers. Excellent road connections enhanced by the opening of the Broadland Northway (A1270) in 2018 have supported steady growth and cemented the Park’s position as a key commercial hub for Norfolk.
From the outset, the Park’s design has emphasised quality, sustainability, and environment. Landscaped grounds, lakeside settings, and extensive cycle and walking paths were established in the early development phases, creating a pleasant and healthy workplace. Biodiversity features such as wildflower planting and habitat support for birds, bats, and insects have continued to enhance the setting over the years.
A Costa Coffee drive-through and a Greene King pub, further strengthen the Park’s appeal. Today, Broadland Business Park is home to a vibrant mix of offices, logistics facilities, hospitality venues, and leisure spaces.
Memorial Gardens
An important and largely hidden feature of Broadland Business Park is the Memorial Gardens, which can be found on Memorial Way, between D & F McCarthy’s building and the BT facilities.
This beautiful and tranquil tree lined oasis was originally the burial ground for the neighbouring St Andrew’s Hospital, which was the oldest mental hospital in Britain, having been opened in 1814. It closed in 1998.
The hospital’s first cemetery, which was used from 1814 until 1859, was situated south of the original hospital buildings. There is no trace of the site today. We therefore assume that burial ground that is now on Broadland Business Park was first established around 1859.
None of the hospital graves were marked, but the graves of many Polish airmen who fought with the British during the Second World War and who, following their war-time experiences, finished their days as patients of St Andrew’s Hospital, were all marked by iron crosses. However, in 1968 the governing body of the hospital made the decision, against the advice of the chaplain and various members of staff, to sell these crosses as scrap metal. The result is that now it is not possible to know exactly where in the burial ground a particular individual is buried and only the outlines of graves can be discerned.
The cemetery was rededicated in late 1980 and a memorial was set up at its centre. This memorial, dedicated by the Archdeacon of Norwich, features, on one side, an inscription commemorating all the patients and staff of the hospital. On the other side is an inscription to the Polish servicemen.
The Memorial Gardens are always open.
Our thanks go to Jenny Watts, senior archivist at the Norfolk Record Office, for her help in our research into the history of the Memorial Gardens.
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