A 143-acre campus, ready to deliver.
A consented site, a National Grid connection agreed for 2034 and a national planning process with local consultation. Explore the proposals in detail.
The Site
A brownfield site, returning to use.
Quest Park occupies approximately 143 acres at Ampthill Road, Stewartby - about 5.5 miles south-west of Bedford and close to the M1, A1 and A6. It is roughly 35 minutes by train to central London and 25 minutes to Luton Airport.
The site is a former Hanson Brick clay pit that ceased operations in 2008 and is now a County Wildlife Site. It enjoys the benefit of two separate access points onto the B530 Ampthill Road.
Around 72 acres sit on a single contiguous developable plot, with surrounding land providing optionality for future expansion.
Vision & Masterplan
A single integrated data centre campus.
Quest Park will deliver a single integrated data centre campus, designed and delivered as one coordinated scheme, phased over time to allow future-proofing and demand-led growth. The masterplan is anchored by an existing June 2024 consent for a 1.5 million sq ft campus, which establishes the accepted bulk and scale for development on the site.
Alongside the campus buildings, the scheme includes a dedicated STEM training, education and research centre - preparing students for careers in technology and embedding skills development into the campus from day one - plus supporting office space, new and improved access junctions, security gatehouse, landscaping and environmental mitigation.
Buildings are designed to be screened by landscaping, with generous green space retained across the wider site.
Power Strategy
Power is the decisive constraint in UK data-centre development. Quest Park addresses it with a layered strategy built around low-carbon and renewable supply.
On-site microgrid
A non-combustion on-site microgrid, with battery storage and an integrated control platform, delivered in modular blocks that track the building programme. Generation is added as each data hall is let, so capital follows confirmed demand.
Grid
A National Grid connection at Marston Vale is signed for October 2034, with capacity to extend. It becomes a second, independent source of supply for the campus.
Local renewable and low-carbon supply
Within a few kilometres of the site are an energy recovery facility with consent for carbon capture, a landfill gas station and consented solar park at Brogborough, and farmland suited to large-scale solar. We are in discussions to supply the campus directly by private wire.
Renewable fuels
Fuel for the microgrid will be matched progressively with certified biomethane from UK anaerobic digestion producers, and the platform has a pathway to hydrogen as supply matures.
Resilience without diesel
Battery storage and renewable HVO standby replace the diesel generator fleets typical of data centres.
Investment & Jobs
A major inward-investment opportunity for the UK.
A fully modular approach to power provision enables the site to accommodate data centres of different sizes and to phase delivery in response to demand.
A dedicated STEM training, education and research centre embeds local skills development into the campus. The campus will be connected to the national fibre network through new diverse duct routes developed with euNetworks.
Source: Volterra Partners, Economic Needs Headlines (January 2025). Figures are assessment estimates, not guarantees.
Biodiversity & Sustainability
Sustainability is built into the scheme from the outset.
Power comes from a non-combustion on-site microgrid, local renewable and low-carbon sources by private wire, and certified biomethane, with renewable HVO rather than diesel for standby.
The campus is built in phases as tenants commit, so no infrastructure is built to sit idle.
Quest Pit is a County Wildlife Site. A full Environmental Impact Assessment, including ecological surveys, will shape the layout, and an option over 134 acres at Chapel Farm has been secured to deliver biodiversity net gain.
New landscaping, planting and water features will screen buildings within the landscape, and highways and access improvements will be developed with the local authority.
Key Documents
Public-facing documentation.