JLR

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will become the tenant of the UK’s largest ever single occupier logistics park when construction is completed next year.

Contractor Winvic Construction said it had been awarded the contract to build the 2.94m sq ft global parts centre at Mercia Park in Leicestershire, with all five industrial units leased to JLR.

Two of the sheds will take up 1,000,000sq ft, with 514m x 181m x 18m steel frames, with the others measuring between 200,000 and 300,000sq ft.

Winvic said bulk earthworks excavations and bund creation works have been completed since construction commenced in February and the planting of thousands of trees and shrubs was now underway.

Unipart Logistics already has a contract to service JLR’s battery assembly centre in the West Midlands, as well as delivering parts and aftermarket support on its behalf, but as MT went to press it was not known whether it would be servicing the Mercia Park site.

Jason Jasper, UK project director for site owner IM Properties, said: “This is not only the largest single occupier deal ever to be agreed and funded but a major planning, construction and project delivery accomplishment.

“We have worked hard with Winvic and our supply chain to manage the logistical challenges that comes with building this volume at the same time, together with managing a phased handover of the development to JLR.”

The project is due to be completed in September 2022.