Distribution
Eastern Gateway
A game-changing distribution
hub (inland port) known as the
East Midlands Gateway is under
construction in Leicestershire.
Covering 700 acres, the site combines links
to the M1 and East Midlands Airport with a
major new rail freight terminal.
To facilitate this grand scheme, project
developers Roxhill and SEGRO have also
funded £100M of infrastructure, including
a 50-acre rail terminal and extensive road
improvements, designed to give the best
possible connectivity to the 10 plots that will
be available to occupiers.
SEGRO Chief Operating Officer Andy
Gulliford says: “SEGRO Logistics Park East
Midlands Gateway will be truly multi-modal:
with its proximity to the M1 providing easy
road access to the whole of the UK; the fact
that it neighbours East Midlands Airport
– the UK’s second largest freight airport –
and that we are building a Strategic Freight
Interchange as part of the scheme.”
East Midlands Gateway is located close to
the very centre of England, with Nottingham
13 miles to the north-east, Leicester 20 miles
to the south and Derby 14 miles to the north
west.
This is said to give it a strong, three city
labour supply with one million people
within a 30-minute drive, and 332,000
typical logistics employees within a
30-minute drive.
The rail freight hub links directly to
the Castle Donington freight line, which
provides access to major UK ports such
as Southampton, Felixstowe and London
Gateway.
Main contractor Winvic is undertaking
a huge earthmoving operation to prepare
the ground for the planned structures.
This involves over half a million cubic
metres of plateau, screening and topsoiling,
with a plant fleet of 65 vehicles moving
approximately 105,000m3 of earth every
week.
Four of the site’s planned steel-framed
distribution centres are currently being
constructed by Winvic. Severfield is
fabricating, supplying and erecting steelwork
for three plots, while a fourth is being done
by Caunton Engineering (see box p24).
The three plots being erected by Severfield
are all very large portal-framed structures
with their own office blocks. Plot One, being
built for an online retailer, requires 2,000t of
structural steelwork for the main frame and
then a further 4,500t for the building’s two
internal mezzanine levels.
The structure is the largest of the four
under construction and measures just over
250m-long × 151m-wide and internally it
consists of eight 31.6m spans. The structure
also has an externally attached single storey
Huge quantities of steelwork and vast amounts of earthmoving
are involved in the creation of one of the UK’s first inland ports,
which will offer half a million square metres of development
plots for storage and distribution warehouses.
The southern boundary
of the park abuts East
Midlands Airport
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FACT FILE
SEGRO Logistics Park
East Midlands Gateway
Main client:
Roxhill Developments &
SEGRO
Architect:
PHP Architects
Main contractor:
Winvic Construction
Steelwork contractor:
Severfield
Steel tonnage: 12,300t
Plot One nearing
completion
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