One of Scotland’s largest independent plant hire businesses Jarvie Plant Group is to invest significantly in purpose built premises in Dundee due to rapid growth in the city.

The firm, which has operated from rented accommodation on Heron Lane for the last 18-months, will move 1 mile north to Dunsinane Avenue in the spring.

The Grangemouth-based firm, founded by John Jarvie Snr in 1960, is investing £500,000 in constructing a new depot and workshop building on a 3-acre site just off the Kingsway.

A total of 10 jobs are expected to be created at the facility which has been designed to accommodate a wider range of plant, accommodation and highly specified welfare vehicles.

“We have been active in the city for some time at the waterfront where we are supplying tower lights and generators to the V&A project, so we felt the time was right to put down firm roots,” said Jarvie Plant Group’s business development director, David Jarvie.

“Despite the recent poor weather progress on site is going very well, but we are on course to open in March as planned. It’s definitely an exciting time to be in Dundee.”

The move away from Heron Lane is part of a wider expansion programme by the Group which will open its eighth depot in Aberdeen in January with Dundee following shortly thereafter.

Over the last 12 months, staff numbers across the group have risen to 150 whilst turnover in the last financial year grew by 15 per cent as a result of the firm’s increased business activities.

Stuart Granton, Jarvie Plant Group’s finance director, said: “The substantial investment in Dundee and other locations around Scotland is symptomatic of our ambitions as a company.

“The plant, vehicles and accommodation available from this new depot will service new and existing clients in house building, civil engineering and general construction.”