Winvic gets to work at Northampton Gateway

Winvic Construction this week starts the main infrastructure works at Segro Logistics Park Northampton Gateway (SLPNG), a 450-acre logistics park by junction 15 of the M1.When complete, Northampton Gateway will comprise five million square feet of industrial facilities and a new strategic rail freight interchange (SRFI).Segro is investing £190m into infrastructure works, including new rail connections, upgrades to junctions 15 and 15a on the M1, a new bridge over the West Coast Mainline, a bypass around Roade, improvements to the A45 and safer junctions along the A508 – all to be built by Winvic under a £107.5m infrastructure works contract.The 35-acre SRFI will be capable of handling 16 trains a day, each up to 775 metres long. The project has been designated a nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP).Winvic is also carrying out extensive landscaping, creating with more than 80 acres of parkland and amenity grassland with 18km of footpaths and cycleways, 20km of hedgerows and 60,000 new trees planted.The first plots are scheduled to be ready for warehouse construction to start in late 2021 and infrastructure works are anticipated to be completed by the end of 2023.Winvic has been conducting enabling works for Segro since summer 2020, including ecology, archaeology and geotechnical site investigations to prepare the site ahead.Activities beginning this month include:demolition of existing buildings and removal of vegetationmoving hedges and badger settsexploratory service digging and service diversionsstart of initial earthworks – involving stripping of topsoil and cut and fill – at junction 15 of the M1earthworks and water management operations for the warehouse base slabs.