McLaren’s £48m Leics warehouses: design and delivery notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Mountpark has appointed McLaren Construction Midlands & North to deliver two distribution warehouses at its Hinckley logistics park in Leicestershire, a £48m second-phase scheme totalling 772,340 sq ft. Unit 2 will provide about 514,100 sq ft of warehouse space with standard and Euro dock loading on both east and west elevations, two transport hubs and 28,460 sq ft of offices, while Unit 3 will offer 258,248 sq ft, south-facing standard and Euro docks, one hub and 12,900 sq ft of offices. Works, which started in July 2026 with steel erection due in September and completion in spring 2027, also cover hardstanding, service yards, car parking, landscaping, mains services and drainage.
Technical Brief
- £48m capex for phase-two build, following completion of phase-one enabling infrastructure.
- Total built area of 772,340 sq ft across the two high-specification distribution units.
- Units 2 and 3 include dedicated gatehouses, implying controlled HGV access and security segregation.
- Dual provision of standard and Euro docks supports mixed UK–continental trailer fleets and higher throughput.
- Multiple transport hubs (three in total) allow separate marshalling for different occupiers or logistics contracts.
- Extensive hardstanding and service yards designed for heavy goods vehicle loading and high-frequency manoeuvring.
- Site-wide mains services and drainage installation indicates coordinated utility corridors and integrated stormwater management.
Our Take
Mountpark’s role at both Hinckley and the former Ferrybridge C Power Station site in Yorkshire signals a deliberate build-out of a UK-wide logistics portfolio, with different contractors (McLaren and GMI) used across schemes to manage delivery and risk.
McLaren Construction Midlands & North’s recent completion of the iQ Longwood Place student scheme near Warwick, alongside this Leicestershire logistics work, suggests the regional business is balancing higher-spec urban residential with large-format industrial sheds, which can help smooth workload and resource utilisation.
Within our 916-piece Infrastructure database, Mountpark appears mainly in logistics and distribution builds, so the Hinckley units are likely to be benchmarked by occupiers and planners against its Ferrybridge and other schemes for design standards, ESG credentials and speed of delivery.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
