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Nicholls Transport is due to move to its new home next summer

Work has started on the new site for haulage company Nicholls Transport
Work has started on the new site for haulage company Nicholls Transport

Work to create a new home for Nicholls Transport has started.

Contractors Provian Construction moved onto the site next to the A249 near the Grovehurst roundabout on August 27 to start building work on behalf of the haulage company.

Once built it will allow the firm to move from its base in Lydbrook Close, off the A2 in Sittingbourne, to the plot which is north of Swale Way, between the A249 and Sheerness railway line.

The site will include tractor and trailer parking spaces, a warehouse and admin building, fuel point, wash bays, workshop and staff car parking spaces.

Swale council’s planning committee passed the application on September 13, last year.

As part of a section 106 agreement the firm must be ready, if needed, to hand over 3.2 hectares of land to Kent County Council for potential future improvements to Swale Way and the Grovehurst roundabout.

It must also provide 17 sheltered cycle parking spaces and take on an apprentice for a minimum of three years.

The project is expected to take 42 weeks with the firm relocating either at the end of June or the beginning of July.

The move will increase the size of the family-run business by 15%.

Access will be via a new priority T-junction from the site on to Swale Way, with a landscaping buffer between the depot and the A249.

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