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Tower Road, Lowestoft

Land size
1.15 acres

Description

LOCATION
Tower Road Business Park is prominently situated on the South Lowestoft Industrial Estate, 2 miles south of Lowestoft town Centre. The site has extensive frontage onto both Tower road and Haddenham Road and benefits from being immediately adjacent to the A12 Lowestoft to Ipswich trunk Road.

The site occupies a prominent position in the centre of the estate with return frontage to both Tower Road and Haddenham Road.

Nearby occupiers include Morrisons Superstore, B&M Home Store, Homebase, Screwfix, Topps Tiles, the Phoenix Enterprise Industrial Estate, Sam Cole Food and Travis Perkins Building Supplies.

The Gateway Retail Park at the entrance to the estate is recently built successful scheme with occupiers including The Range, Aldi and Costa Coffee.

This location provides quick and easy access to Lowestoft town centre and The Port with its important links to the North Sea offshore energy sector.
Great Yarmouth - 14 miles north
Sizewell - 20 miles south
Norwich - 25 miles west
Ipswich - 40 miles south

DESCRIPTION
Plots from 1 to 6.3 acres with the potential to develop commercial buildings from 929 sq m to 13,935 sq m (10,000 sq ft to 150,000 sq ft).

The site is zoned for employment uses including:
Industrial
Storage and distribution
Retail
Roadside

The area is within an Enterprise Zone providing fast planning consents, fast Broadband and the potential for grant funding.

OTHER
The Opportunity
Commercial development land for bespoke design and build opportunities on a pre-let or freehold sale basis.

VIEWING
Strictly by appointment with the selling agents, BYCROFT COMMERCIAL: tel: or email: .

Map Location

Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
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Date Posted
2026-01-29

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

5.5 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Pakefield Primary School948 metresOfsted report card · Feb 2026
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    274
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Carlton Colville Primary School1 mileOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    366
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Westwood Primary School1.1 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    184
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Grove Primary School1.1 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    304
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Elm Tree Primary School1.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    266
    Type
    Academy sponsor led

Secondary

  • Pakefield High School682 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    679
    Type
    Academy converter
  • East Point Academy1.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    846
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Ormiston Denes Academy3.4 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    711
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics3.6 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,263
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Beccles High School6.1 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    182
    Type
    Free schools

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Pakefield Lowestoft, Lowestoft373 metres
Aldi Gateway Retail Park, Lowestoft390 metres
Sainsburys Lowestoft, Lowestoft439 metres

GP surgery

Andaman Surgery0.8 miles

Pharmacy

Boots0.7 miles

Hospital

Beccles Hospital6.6 miles

Green space

Public Park Or Garden327 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Oulton Broad South Rail Station1.7 miles

Nearest bus stop

Belle Coaches39 metres

Typical drive times

Beccles16 min · 8.8 miles
Lowestoft9 min · 3.6 miles
Southwold16 min · 9.8 miles
Norwich (city)41 min · 26 miles
Gorleston-on-Sea21 min · 11 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

£14.99 · one-off purchase

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