The full planning application has been approved and will see the existing head office and warehouse extended and refurbished to provide new amenities for the staff, a quadrupling of the current office space and provide an additional 700 pallet spaces in the extended and refurbished warehouse. This building will complement the other new warehouse on the site that is now complete and in full operation.

Planning permission has been granted and work has already begun on some of the infrastructure needed for the new building. The specification has been designed to meet Class A environmental standards with the whole site aiming for net zero by 2025.

Completion of the new development is planned for the end of 2024.

Navigator MSL’s managing director is Andrew Smith: “These are hugely exciting times for Navigator MSL as we see impressive growth in the business, year on year. That growth has demanded that we have bigger and better facilities from which to offer the exceptional products and services we are providing for our customer base. There is growing awareness of how Navigator offers sourcing and supply solutions to merchants, distributors and OEMs alike and as such, this increase in our capacity allows us to take advantage of the incredible opportunities in front of us. In addition, with our company IT system upgrade almost complete we are able to invest with confidence in further front end and back end automation to handle fast and accurate order processing though all departments. The funding of this new building project will be funded from our own reserves and shows a massive vote of confidence in the future of the business from the shareholders and stakeholders.”

Navigator owns the impressive site at Sharnbrook which has significant areas still available for future growth. The business currently employs more than 60 people and anticipates seeing that number grow substantially once the new building is complete: “We are very pleased to be able to incorporate huge improvements in the facilities for the staff working at Sharnbrook. Modernising our office space and introducing better break out and rest areas in this new project will make us an even more attractive employer to work for,” continues Andrew Smith. “To say these are exciting times for the business is probably a huge understatement. We are all very proud of what we have achieved at the company and very pleased that this will soon be reflected in improvements to our site.”