Speculative warehouses kick-start Doncaster inland port

Ground works are under way for two speculative warehouses at the £400M iPort development in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

iPort is a Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) which will deliver over 570,000m² of Grade A logistics warehousing. All units will be linked with a high specification rail freight intermodal container facility providing rail freight services with continental gauge clearance to all major UK ports and the Channel Tunnel.

Verdion is developing the scheme on a 700-acre site in Rossington, Doncaster. The site will be linked with Junction 3 of the M18 via the soon to be completed Finningley and Rossington Regeneration Route Scheme (FARRRS).

The Grade A warehouse space will be specified to suit multiple user requirements with expansion potential to double both units’ initial floor area. The buildings will be constructed simultaneously and are scheduled for completion in early 2016.

Verdion European Development Director John Clements said: “Due to strong occupier demand and the ever decreasing supply of existing space, the time is right for us to build inventory stock. iPort can accommodate individual unit sizes in a variety of configurations and specified exactly to occupiers needs. We believe this flexibility as well as the many other attributes will enable iPort to capture any number of space requirements in the South Yorkshire market and beyond.