Kier wins £50m Center Parcs contract

Published: 16 May, 2012

WOBURN: Kier has won a £50m contract to build 625 lodges at Center ParcÕs new development at the Warren Wood Forest Village, near Woburn.

Bowmer & Kirkland is main contractor on the £250m development. The contract for the lodges has been tendered separately from the main construction package on the £250m development which has gone to Bowmer & Kirkland.

The new site will be the fifth holiday village to be built by Center Parcs in the UK.

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