New £40m Distribution centre planned

Up to 600 jobs are set to be created in the Rugby area next year after Royal Mail bosses announced plans to build a pounds 40million mail distribution centre in Daventry.

The company yesterday announced proposals for a huge hub at DIRFT Logistics Park.

The centre, due to open next August, would employ 600 people, although hundreds of current employees are expected to transfer from the company’s existing sites in Wednesbury, Nottingham and Northampton.

In August, the company announced that four sites were on the shortlist for the new centre, including DIRFT and Rugby’s Central Park at Leicester Road.

A Royal Mail spokesman said DIRFT had been chosen because it was near the motorway network.

Rugby councillor Gordon Collett (Cons, Lib Dem) said he believed the decision would give Rugby the “best of both worlds.”

“This way we have the benefit of the jobs without having to have another international hub,” he said.

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