Jaguar Land Rover (www.jaguarlandrover.com) is to spend another £200 million expanding its Gaydon design and engineering centre in Warwickshire.

This represents the first major construction project at one of the group’s non-manufacturing sites in over a decade.

Gaydon is intended to become one of the world’s foremost automotive product, engineering and design sites.

JLR worked with architectural practice Bennetts Associates to design the scheme and has engaged Laing O’Rourke as its construction partner.

The latter will create a landscaped campus comprising new offices plus Jaguar and Land Rover design centres.

Commenting on the announcement, a Government spokesman said: “JLR is a great champion for the area. It has been one of the West Midlands’ economic success stories, driving job creation and exports, as well as providing a major boost for large and small companies across the supply chain.”

Chris Elliott, property programmes director for JLR, said that the new centre is “a testament both to Jaguar Land Rover’s heritage of innovation and to its vision for future vehicle technology.

“The new space will centralise our design, product engineering and purchasing functions in an original and modern environment, as well as creating additional capacity for the future.”