BNP Paribas brings Pegler factory to market
12 December 2025 14:21
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The distinctive 17-acre site in Balby is up for sale, following the closure of the 120-year old business earlier this year.
Peglers established itself at St Catherine’s Avenue in 1904, when Francis Pegler built the Belmont Works at the South Yorkshire site.
Despite being acquired by global firm Aalberts, the factory was still locally referred to as Peglers.
By 2012, the company employed more than 1,400 people.
In August last year, the Aalberts Group announced it would be closing Belmont Works, which was an easily recognisable landmark due to its chimney.
The site measures 420,000 sq ft, is located 3.5 miles from iPort, and is less than an hour from the Hull, Grimsby, and Immingham ports.
Which Doncaster businesses and charities would want to unite in joint venture of building accomodation – flat units for homeless people of Doncaster to follow the flagship project in Manchester? There is a paradox, we have many people rough sleeping under Donny bridges, behind supermarkets or wherever they don’t immediately get told to vacate ASAP, but we could do something similar in the empty iconic Peglers factory now shut down because the piping businesses closure,could we not? We could and we should! Does anyone know of any other vacant place suitable for refurbishment and doing this for the struggling vulnerable minority of Doncaster/ Balby and Hexthorpe DN4. Thank you for your reply.
By Alice PEZLAROVA