FWP gets started on Westmorland’s new services

THE Frank Whittle Partnership is working on Westmorland’s new £40m service station in Gloucestershire.

The Preston and Manchester-based architecture and design firm is providing project and cost management services on the scheme, between junctions 11a and 12 of the M5.

Westmorland’s Tebay Services on the M6 grew out of the family farm and it is the UK’s only family-owned and run motorway services.

It acquired the site in partnership with the charity Gloucestershire Gateway Trust and says it will create 300 jobs.

David Robinson, managing partner of FWP, said: “Gloucestershire Gateway will create jobs and economic development; it is a unique offering which will really be of benefit to the community.

“Getting to the construction stage on this project has been a long journey that has taken four years.”

Westmorland’s chief executive Sarah Dunning said: “We are delighted the project is starting so that we can get the local community benefits flowing and help raise Gloucestershire’s profile with the 50 million travellers who pass the site each year.”