CIVIL engineering contractor Mott Macdonald Bentley has signed a 10-year lease at the former Carr Hall Garden Centre in Langho to create a 40,000 sq ft office.

There will be 300 staff based at the office serving a contract with water company United Utilties, which will partly occupy the new premises.

The former garden centre, owned by Andrew Donelan, who ceased trading there in January 2014, is now being refurbished by the new tenants.