Yearsley Logistics has secured permission for an extension to its Newark site that will boost storage by 30,000 pallets.

The £15m investment, which has now received planning permission from Newark and Sherwood District Council, will see construction of a 58,663ft² coldstore, a 16,684ft² extension to its main storage unit, and a new 206,668ft² ambient warehouse at its Belle Eau Park, Bilsthorpe site, near Newark.

Planning documents revealed that the development was driven by the company receiving more work from food supplier Brakes, which uses Yearsley’s site as a frozen food NDC. It is also used as a consolidation site, whereby chilled goods are delivered into the site on Brakes’ vehicles and consolidated with ambient and frozen goods for delivery to regional DCs.

Plans also include 2,000 more frozen SKUs, 30,000 more pallet spaces for ambient and chilled goods, conveyers in the frozen warehouse, 43 more HGV spaces and a solar farm.

The operator hopes the site will be operational by January 2016, with construction planned to start this month. An additional 170 jobs are also planned at the site, taking the number of staff it will employ to 390.

Nobody at the company could be reached for further comment.

Yearsley Logistics recently put 35 Schmitz Cargobull refrigerated trailers on the road.

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