South East Essex

Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale
Monday 25 October 2021

CAMRA HQ:

We have started the process to sell the office building at Hatfield Road and secure a site on which we can combine warehouse and office facilities.

A property agent has been commissioned to carry out the sale of the existing office site and conduct a search for new premises. Specifications for the new site have been drawn up by a working group. The agent will begin marketing Hatfield Road this week.

Consolidation of the office and warehouse facilities has been a long term strategy for CAMRA for several years and will bring numerous benefits for operations, as well as provide security and stability for the organisation in the long term. While we will need to be flexible in location in order to get a site which matches our specifications at the right price, every effort will be made to reduce any impact on existing staff and ideally the new site will be as close to St Albans as possible.

I hope you’ll appreciate that commercial negotiations will be ongoing, potentially for several months, and we’ll not be able to publicly discuss details which could impact on our position in those negotiations.