Answers · Relocating business premises
What's the checklist for relocating a business to new premises?
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Relocating a business means coordinating three tracks in parallel: exiting the old lease cleanly (notice, make-good, handover), fitting out and connecting services at the new site before you need it, and keeping the operation running through the changeover with minimal disruption to staff, customers and supply chains. Sequencing and lead times are what determine how smooth it goes.
Start with the lease dates on both ends: when your current lease genuinely ends (including any notice periods and make-good works), and when the new premises will actually be ready to occupy — including fit-out, racking, IT and telecoms, signage, and any council or building approvals the new use requires. Working backwards from a hard occupancy date, rather than forwards from today, exposes the real timeline much earlier.
Overlap is usually worth paying for. A short period holding both premises — finishing fit-out at the new site while still trading from the old one — is often cheaper than the alternative of a forced move with downtime, rushed trades, or a make-good scramble. Build overlap into the budget and the lease negotiation rather than treating it as a failure of planning.
The operational side is just as important as the property side: updating your registered address, notifying customers and suppliers, redirecting mail and deliveries, and testing that critical systems (power, data, security) are live at the new site before the old one goes dark. A relocation succeeds or fails on the detail of the changeover plan, not on the premises themselves.
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