Gas distribution company moves into new Stockport base

Cadent Gas, the firm responsible for maintaining the 21,000 miles of gas distribution pipes in the North West, has moved into its new depot in Stockport.

Cadent has taken a 10-year lease on a 26,600 sq ft facility on Bredbury Park Industrial Estate that will be its base for operations across a wide area south of Manchester.

As well as ground and first-floor workstations and meeting rooms, the site now houses Cadent’s biggest stores facility in its North West network – from huge reels of yellow polyethylene gas pipes, to the small nuts, bolts and everything else its engineers may possibly need to keep gas flowing safely.

The new Stockport depot – formerly home to facilities management firm Mitie – has been adapted to include, among many other things: electric vehicle charge points, energy efficient lighting, disabled access and a multi-faith room.

The new facility also provides a modernised home for specialist olfactory (the sense of smell) and rhinology work that the gas distribution company’s teams deliver.

Jenny Moten, Director of Cadent’s North West Network, said:

“This is a great new facility for my team to work from. We perform a vital role, in ensuring energy flows safely to hundreds of thousands of homes and other sites. Investing in new depots, and upgrading our existing sites, is a key part of the long-term strategy to keep us based local to the communities we serve.”

More than 86 per cent of Stockport’s households are heated by gas. Stockport had a major role in the early life of the gas industry in the UK, becoming one of the first boroughs to establish a municipal supply, in 1820.