CONSTRUCTION company Willmott Dixon has won three Kent-based contracts worth £14m.

They include a £7m David Lloyd Leisure racquets, health and fitness centre at Kings Hill, West Malling. It is the 13th club the company has built for David Lloyd Leisure in the past eight years.

When completed next July, the club will provide a host of facilities for West Malling residents, including a large fitness hall and exercise studios, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, indoor and outside swimming pools, hydro-spa, leisure pool and crèche.

Willmott Dixon has also picked up two primary school projects worth £6.8m from the London Borough of Bexley.

The first involves constructing a new school building on the site of Upland Primary School in Church Road, Bexleyheath, to replace the existing premises when completed in September next year.

The company will also build a new school at Orchard Primary School in Oxford Road, Sidcup, to replace the existing premises.

With both schools, the previous buildings will be demolished when the pupils take occupancy in their new teaching premises.

The company is already well into an £8m contract to extend Homewood School in Tenterden, to provide a new library, teaching block, sports hall extension and additional parking facilities at the school.

Mark Tant, managing director of the regional Willmott Dixon business responsible for Kent said: "It's a key strategic aim to grow our business in Kent during the next few years and this is an excellent start so far. I'm hoping that within a few years, the site of Willmott Dixon hoardings around projects will be a familiar one in the county."

Willmott Dixon is one of the UK's oldest construction businesses, having been formed in 1852, and last year recorded pre-tax profits of £6.4m on a turnover of £332m.