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Neighbourhood nurseries on market

The nursery group Wind in the Willows has put four of its neighbourhood nurseries up for sale. The chain currently has 17 neighbourhood nurseries offering 1,113 places.

The chain currently has 17 neighbourhood nurseries offering 1,113 places.

It was ranked at number 16 in the summer 2006 issue of the Nursery World supplement Nursery Chains.

Director Tom Hobbs told Nursery World that the settings on the market were not part of the planned 'clusters' of nurseries which form the 'core business'.

The four nurseries are in Dudley in the West Midlands, Middlesbrough in Teesside, and Lowestoft and Ipswich in Suffolk. They offer a combined total of 338 places.

Mr Hobbs said that the reason that those settings were for sale was 'just the fact that they are not in clusters and so are difficult to manage. We want to focus on developing in clusters.'

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