Warehouse and training facility planned as Fife business looks for new premises

AIC Heating UK Ltd has asked Fife Council for planning permission to create a “high specification, bespoke, sustainable facility” for its UK wide distribution business in Fife.

The company currently operates from Inverkeithing’s Belleknowes Industrial Estate but has outgrown that building and said it needs “a new, larger, and more energy efficient facility” to continue to develop its business.

A supporting statement, submitted as part of the planning application, said: “The new facility will be used for the storage and distribution of our product range to the whole of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.”

IT added: “AIC will also operate a state of the art training facility to upskill our industry in the installation, maintenance and operation of our products and facilitate the introduction of our renewable product range to assist in the transition to achieving net zero.”

AIC was founded locally in 2001 and has since become an internationally recognised specialist and distributor of gas boilers, water heaters, and water storage units, as well as renewable products such as air source heat pumps and energy (battery) storage systems. AIC highlighted that the site is already allocated for “general employment class” development in the FIFEPlan, and the company is in the process of purchasing the land for the building.

Fife Council will consider the application and make a decision in due course.