By
Chloe Laversuch
Northminster Properties managing director, George Burgess, left, with development surveyor Alastair Gill at Northminster Business Park, where the new parcels centre will be built, subject to planning
A MAJOR delivery company has committed to only using electric vehicles to drop off parcels within York city walls.
DPD wants to expand its electric van fleet and hopes to extend electric vehicle deliveries across the region, from Harrogate to Selby to Scarborough, in the coming years.
The company has secured planning permission to build a new hub on Green Belt land near Northminster Business Park in Upper Poppleton.
Kathryn Jukes, speaking for DPD, said: “Remaining at the current site at Clifton Moor is no longer an option. It simply does not have the space to accommodate DPD’s plans to expand their fleet of electric vehicles.