A Witney business park is set for further development in a move that is likely to create more than 100 jobs. Abingdon-based construction company Bluestone has won a £1.9m contract to design and build an industrial warehouse complex of 16 units for developer Abacus Developments at the Windrush Business Park.

The development will be known as Nimrod, after the De Havilland aircraft factory which once stood there. It is a major success for Bluestone which has just finished work on the new building for Alden Press, which is moving out of the Osney Mead industrial estate in Oxford.

Bluestone regional managing director Stephen Scard said: "Work has recently commenced on site and the project is progressing very well.'' Tom Barton, of Kidlington property agents VSL, said the Witney market was one of the busiest in Oxfordshire at the current time.

He added: "Witney is really buzzing there is a real community feel here and once businesses move in, they don't move out again."

One of the latest movers on to the park is truck tail lift manufacturer Del (UK) which has left its previous premises on the town's Station Lane industrial estate after major expansion.

The Windrush Business Park is built on land formerly owned by engineering company the Smiths Group, which had associations with the town stretching back to the 1940s.

It sold its final business, Sifan, to the private equity arm of the HSBC bank in December 2002.