BESPOKE kitchen firm Roundhouse is opening a new factory in Malvern.

Commercial property agent Harris Lamb has sold a production building on the Spring Lane Industrial Estate to the company for £1.5m. Roundhouse, which has seven UK showrooms in London and Cheltenham, currently operates from premises on the town's Advantage Business Park. Now it has on the larger 29,000sq ft building Orion House, previously occupied by garage door firm Permadoor, due to its excellent transport links to the rest of the UK.

Lance Turner of Harris Lamb’s Worcester office, said: “We have recently seen a marked increase in demand for freehold property. This is underpinned by increasing business confidence, with businesses looking to develop their longer term business plans based on owning rather than leasing business premises as the economy has improved and confidence increased within the manufacturing sector.

“Roundhouse Design is one such business recognising the benefits of such investment. As a prestigious manufacturing company already based in Malvern, with a strong workforce and customer-base in the south of the UK and the ability to purchase a larger building provided Roundhouse with the optimum solution to the company’s expansion needs."