The job to build a new car assembly plant at Lode Lane will involve extensive demolition of up to 400,000 sq ft of existing factory space.
Plans were submitted for a two-storey plant covering around 1.2m sq ft in April, but have since been revised to a single storey building on the same floor plate of 600,000 sq ft.
The new building will house a part of the manufacturing process known as ‘body-in-white’ where the pressed metal panels are assembled to form the main frame and body of the car.
The expansion at Lode Lane follows a major sales boom over the last 18 months.