Located on the eastern edge of Irvine, i3 Enterprise Area is one of the 16 strategic sites across Scotland that are part of Scotland’s enterprise areas*.
i3’s designation offers specific support with a rates free period for companies linked to Life Sciences and is the perfect location for new and fast-growing companies.
Land for Sale | Industrial Space to Lease
North Ayrshire Council and Scottish Enterprise can offer opportunities at i3 for land purchase or to lease planned modern industrial space. Simplified and accelerated planning policies and procedures are also in place.
The convenient location just 30 miles south-west of Glasgow and seven miles west of Kilmarnock enables you to benefit from:
- excellent road connections to Glasgow Airport (35 mins) and Prestwick Airport (10 mins), Greenock and Ayr
- connections to ferry terminals at Cairnryan, Troon and Ardrossan
- trunk road connectivity – A71 and A76 road connections to the M77 and M74
To find out more about the variety of premises and land available, please get in touch.
Investment in Growth Programme
The planned growth programme for i3 supports emerging technologies and digital automation.
i3 has been allocated Ayrshire Growth Deal targeted investment of £21 million from the Scottish Government, UK Government and North Ayrshire Council, to create Flexible Advanced Manufacturing Space providing modern, energy efficient space for businesses, and to support the establishment of the Digital Process Manufacturing Centre (DPMC); a regionally significant and nationally recognised centre of excellence in Digital Automation. This investment has been recently bolstered by additional funds of £4.7 million from the UK Government’s Levelling Up 3 (LUF3) fund.
The DPMC is operational as a pilot, located with the manufacturing space of engineering firm Booth Welsh and has been established through a partnership between National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), CPI and North Ayrshire Council and with support from Scottish Enterprise. The Centre will also benefit from a private 5G network supported through UK Government funding.
*in place until 2026.