Fire alarm, CCTV and access control systems for Tewkesbury's distribution sites, market-town businesses and riverside properties.
Tewkesbury's M5 J9 corridor and Ashchurch industrial estate make it one of the busiest logistics and light-industrial hubs in the county. We install and maintain commercial fire alarms, ANPR-ready CCTV and yard-access systems at distribution units where uptime and audit trails matter as much as the kit itself. Our commercial fire alarm page sets out the detection categories those systems are built around, our access control page covers the records such a system keeps and who may run reports, and our services page gathers everything else we install and maintain.
In the historic centre we work to a different brief: discreet device placement, regs-compliant detection in tight Tudor-frame buildings, and intruder systems that respect the fabric of older properties on Church Street and High Street.
Flood risk is also a factor we consider. Panels, sounders and control equipment are mounted clear of historic flood lines wherever practical, and signalling routes are specified for resilience.
Commercial fire alarms, ANPR CCTV and gate access for units across Ashchurch Business Centre and the M5 J9 corridor.
Sensitive fire and intruder installs across the Tewkesbury conservation area, including High Street, Church Street and the Mythe.
Panel and signalling placement specified above local flood lines on riverside properties near the Severn and Avon.
We work across the Ashchurch estates and the M5 J9 corridor, from single-tenant warehousing to multi-let business centres.
Where yard access, dwell time or visitor logging matters we specify CCTV positions and lenses that support ANPR retrofit without re-routing cable.
Panels, batteries and signalling equipment are mounted above historic flood lines on riverside Tewkesbury properties as a matter of course.
Tudor-frame and timber-clad properties in the High Street and Church Street get device placements and cable routes chosen to avoid damaging original fabric.
Addressable BS 5839 Part 1 systems for distribution units across Ashchurch Business Centre.
Grade 3 monitored systems for high-stock warehousing along the M5 J9 corridor.
ANPR-ready IP camera networks for yards, gatehouses and loading bays.
Gate, barrier and door-entry systems for industrial units and multi-let business centres.
Escape-route lighting for warehouse units and historic retail premises on the High Street.
Servicing contracts geared around shift patterns at logistics sites, with call-outs scheduled out of hours where needed.
Tewkesbury's distribution and light-industrial cluster around Ashchurch sets the brief for access control in the town, and the requirements are different from an office fit-out. Sites here need gate and yard control as much as door control: barriers and gates that answer to the same credential system as the building, driver access windows that match shift patterns, and an audit trail that shows which credential went through which door, and when, which is the first thing an insurer or auditor asks for after an incident.
Uptime matters more than elegance on these sites. A failed reader on a distribution unit's goods entrance stops work, so we specify controllers with local fallback, where doors keep working to cached credentials if the network drops, and commission every fail-safe and fail-secure decision in writing. Where a site runs CCTV alongside, the access events and camera timeline can be tied together, so a gate event pulls up the matching footage rather than an hour of scrubbing.
The other half of Tewkesbury could not be more different: Tudor-frame and listed buildings along High Street and Church Street where surface trunking and drilled mullions are not acceptable. Access control here means choosing hardware for discretion: readers in keeping with the frontage, wireless locking where cabling would damage fabric, and door-entry panels positioned so they serve the building without defacing it.
The compliance rules do not relax for old buildings: an escape-route door held locked electrically against the direction of escape still has to release on fire alarm activation, however historic the door is. We design that interface into every heritage installation and document it for the responsible person, the same as we would on a warehouse.
Not every building in Tewkesbury is a distribution shed or a Tudor shopfront. The smaller units on Tewkesbury Business Park, off Shannon Way and Northway Lane, the managed office centre on Oakfield Close, the town's schools and its GP and dental surgeries are most of the working building stock. The access control these buildings need is less about gates and more about people: who is allowed through which internal door, at what time, and how quickly that changes when someone leaves.
On a shared business park there are two credential lists, not one: the record of which fobs and codes open which doors. The estate's gates and shared entrance sit with the landlord or managing agent, and the doors inside each unit sit with the tenant. Schools need the visitor route kept apart from the staff route: a front door that reception releases so nobody reaches the corridors unseen, staff doors on a timetable, and a per-door record that can be put in front of a safeguarding review. In a surgery the doors that matter are the front door, controlled from reception in opening hours and always free to open from the inside, and the medicines store and records room, on tighter credentials.
If you are taking a unit on the Ashchurch estate or the business park, the previous occupier may have left readers on the doors and a controller, the unit that decides which fob opens which door. Sound readers on a supported controller can be kept. The survey confirms whether the controller is still supported and whether every escape-route door it holds locked still releases on the fire alarm, since on an inherited system that link may never have been wired. Credentials are re-issued from a clean list so that nobody who has left still holds a working fob, and the result is documented. Where the hardware is at the end of its life we say so before you commit, so the problem is not yours to inherit.
Yes. The Ashchurch estate and the M5 J9 corridor are inside our normal working radius from Gloucester. Typical work covers gate and barrier control, fob or ANPR-ready vehicle entry, shift-window access schedules and full audit trails, integrated with the site's fire alarm so any escape door the system holds locked releases on activation. Sites on a live maintenance contract are covered by 24/7 emergency call-out.
Yes. Wireless locking hardware and battery readers avoid chasing cables through protected fabric, and where listed building consent is likely to be needed we flag it at survey stage so it can be agreed before anything is fixed to the building. Where an escape-route door is locked electrically, the fire-alarm release is designed in whatever the building's age; compliance does not relax for heritage properties.
A walk of every door you want controlled, with you. For each one we check how it is used, whether it sits on an escape route and how it is locked now, and what the door itself is, because a fire door changes what can be fitted to it. We also work out where the controller and its power can go, and who will manage credentials day to day. From that we write a specification you can compare other quotes against, and we say plainly which doors the fire alarm has to release and which it does not.
Yes. One system, two levels of control: the landlord or managing agent holds the common doors and gates, each tenant holds the doors and fobs for its own unit, and each manages only its own. The record of who went through which door, and when, is split the same way. Agree before the system goes in who holds the credential list, because that is what decides whether a leaver is off the system the same day.
Yes. We position cameras and select lenses to support ANPR, either at install or as a later retrofit, so vehicle dwell time, gate triggering and visitor logging can all be tied into the same system.
We mount fire panels, batteries, sounders and signalling equipment above the local historic flood line wherever the building allows. Cable entries are sealed and signalling is dual-path so resilience does not depend on a single phone line.
Yes. We schedule installs around shift patterns, typically nights or weekends for large warehousing, and stage works so loading bays and racking aisles stay operational.
Yes. Bishop's Cleeve, Winchcombe and the southern Vale are all within our standard Tewkesbury coverage area.
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