A North Yorkshire company has won a contract to design a £1.5m medical centre near Leeds.

Severfield-Reeve Projects, based in Thirsk, specialises in development and design and is working with East Leeds Primary Care Trust on the development at Kippax, near Leeds.

Construction work has started on the 19,000 sq ft, two-storey medical centre for the practice, which serves 11,500 patients.

The new medical centre will include 11 consulting rooms, two minor surgery sites, a speech and language therapy room and a Moss Pharmacy.

The contract win follows Severfield-Reeve Projects' completion of Woolpack House, at Peaseholme Green, York, for the Jorvik Medical Practice.

And two years ago the company completed a £400,000 development for Front Street Surgery in Acomb, York.

Managing director Lindsay Ross said: We are delighted to be working on the redevelopment of this essential medical centre for Gibson Lane Practice. "As well as extending our work in primary care, this contract demonstrates that our design build expertise is increasingly recognised in the highly-competitive Yorkshire market."