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    GAP Bedford depot consolidation: logistics and plant access notes for project teams

    January 15, 2026|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    GAP Bedford depot consolidation: logistics and plant access notes for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    GAP Hire Solutions has opened a consolidated depot on Postley Road in Kempston, near Bedford, merging its Milton Keynes Plant & Tools and Cambridge Survey depots into a single site. The facility brings plant, tools and survey divisions under one roof, giving contractors a single access point for heavy plant, small tools and specialist survey equipment. Managing director – south Richard Dey said the depot is intended as a platform to scale operations while supporting customers’ project delivery across the region.

    Technical Brief

    • Single yard for plant, tools and survey equipment simplifies off-hire inspection, maintenance scheduling and compliance documentation.
    • Co-located survey division enables rapid mobilisation of setting-out, monitoring and machine-control instruments for time-critical works.
    • Centralised stockholding near Bedford should shorten lead times for replacement or breakdown cover on earthworks plant.
    • Shared workshop and office environment improves cross-division coordination for complex temporary works and phased construction programmes.
    • For contractors, one account and collection point streamlines logistics planning, especially on multi-site infrastructure frameworks.
    • Move reflects a wider shift towards regional hub depots, replacing smaller satellite yards on constrained urban plots.

    Our Take

    GAP’s expansion with the Bedford depot comes less than a year after the sudden death of chairman Douglas Anderson, suggesting the family-owned group is maintaining its pre-existing UK growth trajectory despite leadership disruption.

    Within our Infrastructure ‘Projects’ coverage, GAP Hire Solutions is one of the more frequently recurring plant and tool hire names, indicating that contractors in regions like Bedford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge are likely to see it as a default supplier for multi-site civil works.

    Locating the Bedford depot alongside existing Milton Keynes Plant & Tools and Cambridge Survey operations effectively fills a geographic gap on the Oxford–Cambridge arc, which is seeing sustained construction and infrastructure investment in our recent UK coverage.

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