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industrial estate
A planned and serviced industrial cluster grouping firms' factories, warehouses, depots, and yards on one site.
An industrial estate is an area zoned for manufacturing, storage and distribution, with road or rail access laid out for goods traffic. It groups the complexes and buildings of several firms, typically halls, warehouses, depots and yards.
The estate is planned and serviced as a unit, which separates it from industry that grew along a canal or a railway without a common layout.
Where the site is used for offices and research instead, use the business park.
Related definitions
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business park
A planned and jointly serviced cluster of firms' office, research, laboratory, or light-industrial premises. -
masterplanned community
A cluster planned as a whole before construction, coordinating housing with roads, services, and open space. -
mixed-use development
A planned cluster grouping complexes with deliberately different main uses, rather than a single mixed-use complex. -
residential development
A cluster of housing complexes built under one scheme, with other uses serving a primarily residential development. -
waterfront development
A planned cluster at the water's edge whose shoreline relationship defines the development and shapes its layout.