TRADITIONAL VILLAGE POST OFFICE & STATIONERS ON THE FYLDE COAST

Long established Post Office with commission £65,000PA offering wide range of traditional services from spacious & superbly fitted corner parade premises with excellent year-round regular & 'walk in' trade in popular seaside village. Comes with small internet cafe area & HUGE scope to develop currently limited retail sales etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for quick genuine reluctant sale with valuable inventory of modern fixtures & fittings included & early viewing strongly advised REF 2671

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible corner trading position with little in the way of direct local competition on a high footfall parade serving the charming and well populated seaside village of Bispham, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A584, A585, A586, A587 and M55 junction 4 etc.) and approximately 1.5 mile north of Blackpool town centre, on Lancashire’s delightful and ever-popular Fylde coast.

We are delighted to present this marvellous opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial proposition of exceptional quality and uncommon further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This long established community store currently primarily provides an extremely useful range of traditional Post Office services for local residents including postage, pensions, benefits, motor vehicle taxing, passports, currency exchange, travel insurance, international money transfers and personal banking etc.

The Post Office services naturally generate considerable extra trade for a highly complementary, though currently limited retail operation of a good selection of traditional stationery supplies displayed to their best advantage in a bright, spacious and secure customer service area, which also holds a valuable National Lottery franchise.

“Bispham Post Office” additionally features a small three station in-store internet café area and operates from premises of a size which would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to considerable further expansion of the retail products currently offered to exploit the extensive display space available.

The business would also benefit by operating significantly extended weekend hours in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it is achieving in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of two part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Fitted to superb contemporary industry specifications throughout, these substantial and extremely well maintained leasehold corner parade premises provide truly outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises a broad, inviting and glazed, double-fronted public entrance with disabled access into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open plan customer service area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and feature tiled flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The main customer service area includes high quality, purpose-built display units for a good selection of stationery supplies, a currently unused multi-level refrigerator display unit, 3 x photocopying machines, a three-station in-store internet café and a prominent and fully fitted general point-of-sale and open “combi” Post Office counter for smaller transactions with parcel weighing facilities, credit card payment facilities, electronic till point and National Lottery terminal.

The main public area also features a separate dedicated Post Office department housing 2 x fully fitted and screened computerised serving positions with full complement of weighing, credit card payment and international money transfer facilities and a small, fully furnished and computerised back office area with telephone and full complement of modern, industry-specific business management systems.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation consists of a small shop kitchen area, together with all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of gas heating, in addition to the security benefits of steel shutters to the main entrance and windows and a full Post Office approved alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and highly visible corner trading position with little in the way of direct local competition on the busy main Red Bank Road through the charming seaside village of Bispham, near Blackpool on the Lancashire coast, to the exterior the premises are well signed and presented and afford extensive and inviting display window space onto a block-paved forecourt area providing private unrestricted off-road parking facilities for two vehicles, with additional communal parking available locally.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price