IMPROVEMENTS to the Cressex Business Park are now underway as part of a long-term programme by Wycombe District Council to encourage new businesses to the town.

The district council, the ground landlords of the 150 acres on the business park, is now actively facilitating redevelopment on the High Wycombe estate.

These include the new bus depot for Arriva, an industrial/warehouse development by Albion Land, and an extension to the Cressex Enterprise Centre.

Lesley Clarke, leader of the council, said: "We are pleased about the bus station because it is an integral part of the town centre redevelopment.

"We are trying to make the business park look better and we are working towards that. We know we can encourage very high tech companies to come here, and if you want them to come you have to have high tech buildings to accommodate them."

Commercial property developer Albion Land is building 11 industrial/warehouse units in Lincoln Road from 2,000 sq ft up to 20,000 sq ft available, due to be completed in January next year.

Duncan Bailey Kennedy, joint agents with Jansons & Partners of Uxbridge, for the Network4 development, said a number of the units were already under offer.

Basepoint Centres Ltd of Winchester, in partnership with the district council, is to develop the former Walters building next door to the Cressex Enterprise Centre in Lincoln Road with a three-storey building. This will add a further 30 units to the 52 small office and light industrial units it currently lets out in the centre.

Building is due to start next January and will be available for letting by the summer of 2005.