Work starts on major parcel hub for DPD at £250m North East business park

Ground has been broken on site (Image credit: Richardson Barberry)

Work to construct DPD's major distribution centre at a new £250m business park in the North East is officially underway. 

Joint venture developer and investor Richardson Barberry has announced that the erection of the 63,000 sq ft warehouse has started. DPD has signed a 25-year lease for the facility on an eight-acre site at Forrest Park, a joint venture between Durham County Council and local landowners the Forrest family, located next to Junction 59 of the A1(M) at Newton Aycliffe, Durham. 

The new hub is expected to safeguard 125 jobs for County Durham and generate up to another 250 jobs as part of the new built-to-suit DPD building at Forrest Park. 

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