Location
Our office is in a restored cotton mill at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Darley Abbey Mills.
To get a better feel of this scenic and historically interesting location, have a virtual fly around!
Directions
Just put the following postcode in your sat nav to get to the mill complex:
DE22 1DZ
Or if you’re using what3words, this will take you directly to our front door:
album.fields.bought
PLEASE NOTE!
BOTH THE ORIGINAL TOLL BRIDGE AND REPLACEMENT TEMPORARY FOOTBRIDGE HAVE NOW BEEN CLOSED DUE TO SAFETY CONCERNS!
THIS MEANS THAT FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE YOU CAN’T GET TO OUR OFFICE FROM THE DARLEY ABBEY VILLAGE SIDE OF THE RIVER!
The only way to our office is now off the A61, down Alfreton Road, and past the rugby club.
Also, drive with caution past the rugby club, as recent floods have done a lot of damage to the road surface of Haslams Lane, resulting in some significant potholes.
For the latest on conditions affecting access, please see the Darley Abbey Mills information portal.
Mill Complex
The mill complex is surprisingly large and confusing, so it’s easy to get lost.
We’re in the ‘Middle Mill’, on the main Haslams Lane route through the mill complex, but unfortunately it isn’t signposted very well.
If you’re coming from the A61 / rugby club direction, we’re on the left on the main road, just after you’ve gone past the building on the left with the ‘Element’ signage near the giant chimney. If you get to the ‘Long Mill’, the ‘West Mill’, or the footbridge, then you’ve gone too far!
And if you end up near the ‘OneDZ’ gym, you’re on the wrong side of the main road through the mill complex! But you can park there and just walk across.
Parking
There is free parking on site, either in the small car park immediately outside our building, or in the bigger car park opposite on the other side of Haslams Lane. If you can’t find any free space on site, please use the rugby club car park on Haslams Lane just before the mill complex, which is free and only a short walking distance away.
If you let us know you’re coming, we’ll reserve you one of our parking spaces. Just look for the giant bright green traffic cones in front of our building! Give us a ring when you get here and we’ll come out and move the cone so you can park.
Otherwise, you can park in any space that doesn’t have a reservation sign for a specific business on it.
WARNING!
BE AWARE THAT SOME OF OUR NEIGHBOURING COMPANIES WITHIN THE MILLS COMPLEX HAVE RECENTLY STARTED VIGOROUSLY ENFORCING THEIR RESERVED PARKING SPACES, SO YOU MAY GET FINED IF YOU PARK IN A NAMED SPACE OTHER THAN ONE OF OURS!
Our Office
You’re looking for a somewhat inconspicuous sage green door in the middle of a large mill building, the ‘Middle Mill’, which has a small car park in front of it. There is a black sign listing occupants high up on the wall in the middle of the building, with ‘Loates HR’ in unhelpfully small text. We’d really like to have a bigger and better sign, but the Mills are grade-1 listed buildings as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so there are lots of restrictions as to what is allowed.
It will probably be easier for you to look for the much more prominent signage of our parking spaces against the front wall of the building, over to the right. Or the giant bright green traffic cones that we use to reserve them. The front door is to the left of these.
Once through the main door of the building, we are on the ground floor, immediately to the right.
If you get completely lost, don’t panic, just give us a ring and we’ll come out and find you!
01332 890 345
Accessibility
Our office is on the ground floor, and is fully wheelchair accessible.
We also have private wheelchair accessible toilet facilities available within our office.
We have allocated parking spaces immediately outside our office building, so can reserve one of these for you if that would help.
If you have any other accessibility requirements, please let us know in advance of your visit and we will do everything we can to accommodate them.