EXCLUSIVE: DPD Group plans highly bespoke build-to-suit transport hub in Staffordshire
DPD Group has agreed to a bespoke distribution hub at St Francis Group’s 1.7 million ft2 Logic 54 scheme in South Staffordshire.
By Liza Helps, Property Editor, Logistics Matters
A RESERVED matters planning application for the whole site, including Plot 8 which will house DPD’s hub, was submitted to South Staffordshire Council earlier this month.
The highly bespoke DPD unit, located centrally within the scheme, will total 386,489 ft2 and will include a main hub cross dock building of 344,240 ft2 as well as separate 11,783 ft2 vehicle maintenance unit, a 9,673 ft2 tyre and salt store and a 20,784 ft2 security and canteen building.
There will be 500 car parking spaces as well as 360 trailer parking bay and 147 tractor parking bays to the north of the main hub with a further 29 trailer and 10 tractors bays to the south of the main hub next to the tyre store and VMU. In order to cope with the sheer amount of HGVs at the DPD site there will be two accesses to be taken from the internal spine road to lead to a five-lane gated entrance(west) and exit (east).
The main cross dock building is arranged with a hub office at its centre with 5,881 ft2 of space to the north and a 4,941 ft2 operations base to the south with mezzanine floor crossing the whole width. A 5,55 ft2 of office space for an engineers centre is based on the western end of the facility. The long thin cross dock space has some 288 dock and level access doors.
The other buildings proposed for the site include a 50,000 ft2, unit, a 57,000 ft2 unit, a 70,000 ft2 unit, a 190,720 ft2 unit, a 90,000 ft2 unit a 155,000 ft2 unit and a 125,000 ft2 building that can be split into four smaller separate units
The scheme which totals 60-acres comprises the former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), which has now been cleared of buildings and remediated. It is located to the north of the M54, between Junctions 1 and 2, in close proximity to the M6 and M6 Toll motorways. St Francis Group acquired from BAE on an unconditional basis in 2020.
The site will be accessed via new adopted highway linking the site to the A419 and onwards to Junction 2 of the M54 motorway and to the M6.
Sole letting agents is JLL.
Logistics Matters has contacted DPD Group for more information.
