Maidstone dealer Lipscomb Motors has secured a 2.5 acre site on Forstal Road to home a new sales and service operation.

Managing director Peter Barnes plans to relocate his Volvo dealership from its present Bearsted site by November 2006. The new development will include a 10-car Volvo showroom, plus a small showroom on each end for two niche marques. Lipscomb Motors has appointed Bisset Adams, Volvo UK’s lead design consultants, to act as project architects.