Sapphire Holidays has announced a £2 million investment in new offices at Hayle to cater for further growth.
The long-established family-owned group, which includes Aspects Holidays, Boutique Retreats, Classic Cottages and Unique Hideaways, employs more than 185 people, mostly in Cornwall. It collectively manages some 2,650 holiday letting properties across the UK, selling £60 million of holidays a year.
It has acquired a former industrial building on Hayle Business Park and is transforming it into a high-tech, low-carbon office for its growing team.
The new development, which is scheduled to be completed next Easter, complements its neighbouring Sapphire House which the group built in 2020 as a home for its Aspects Holidays employees.
Simon Tregoning, owner and chairman of Sapphire Holidays, said: “With this repurposed building we’ll be able to consolidate all our teams on one site and cater for the future growth of the business. We wanted to reuse an existing unit because sustainability is very important to us, so it’s been designed to rigorous energy efficiency standards.”
The former Orion Precision Castings building started life as an engineering forge and was later used by a tree surgery business. Now it is being recycled into a modern energy efficient office that will mainly cater for staff from Classic Cottages and Boutique Retreats.
The new office has been designed by Truro-based KAST Architects, who also designed neighbouring Sapphire House, and the build is being managed by Ian Cavley of Newquay-based IC Building Consultancy, who also worked on Sapphire House.
