We build, rebuild and refurbish fuel and EV forecourts across Great Britain as principal contractor: tanks, canopies, shops, drive-thrus, washes and the grid connection behind the chargers, delivered by one accountable team.
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Built for BP, Asda, Motor Fuel Group and Extra.
Who we are
Bob Brown and Chris Hamilton started Broham in 1980, and the name is half of each of them. We have built filling stations ever since: for the oil companies, the supermarkets, the motorway services and the independent retailers who now run most of Britain’s forecourts.
We are still specialists. Our own site teams and in-house civils team do the work, and a family-owned group stands behind us with the power, utilities and civil engineering that a modern forecourt needs.
Everything on a forecourt
Most forecourt projects juggle a civils firm, a tank installer, a canopy erector, a shopfitter and a connection provider. We bring all of it under one principal contractor. Choose a part of the site to see what we do there.
The whole site
Everything on this drawing is work we carry out or manage ourselves as principal contractor, from the supply in the substation to the coffee machine in the shop.
Try it: choose a part, or tap a number on the drawing.
Part 1 of 8
New supplies, substations, LV cabinets, and the ducts and cables to every pump and charger. Our sister company Broham Energy is an independent connection provider, so the connection itself can be designed and built inside the group, up to 132kV.
On site: MFG Stretford: a new substation, LV cabinet and power packs for eight ultra-rapid bays.
Part 2 of 8
Old fuel systems made safe and taken out: tanks, lines and structures. Asbestos surveys and removal, contaminated ground, and the notices your Petroleum Enforcement Authority needs before work starts.
On site: Asda Nuneaton: 1960s tanks out, asbestos removed, dye-works ground and knotweed cleared.
Part 3 of 8
Our in-house civils team lays the drainage, interceptors, separators and attenuation tanks, the ducts and kerbs, and the forecourt slab itself, finished to a standard you can see.
On site: BP Braintree: a 105m³ attenuation tank with a flow control at 3 litres a second.
Part 4 of 8
Excavations and temporary works, tank bases and ballast, new storage tanks and the pipework that feeds every hose, laid out to the flow rate you need.
On site: Asda Sutton-in-Ashfield: pipework designed for at least 40 litres a minute at every nozzle.
Part 5 of 8
Canopy foundations, steelwork, decks, fascias and lighting, and the price sign at the roadside.
On site: BP Foley: a canopy built as a Faraday cage, under overhead high-voltage lines.
Part 6 of 8
Islands, dispensers and HGV lanes, pay at pump, LPG and hydrogen, installed, tested and commissioned.
On site: Asda Longwell Green: a fully automated eight-pump filling station.
Part 7 of 8
Ultra-rapid bays with their power, canopy, markings and protection, beside the fuel or in place of it.
On site: Speke, Liverpool: a fuel and EV site for A+F Group, with a 10-bay, 350kW hub for Source EV.
Part 8 of 8
Sales buildings, extensions and fit-outs, drive-thrus for coffee and food brands, car washes, jet wash bays and valeting.
On site: Costa Selby: a new drive-thru, handed over in 18 weeks, on time and on budget.
What we build
Three kinds of work, one team. Most of our projects now mix all three.
Broham Forecourts
New sites, knock-down rebuilds, refurbishments and rebrands, from a single pump upgrade to a motorway service area.
Broham Commercial
Sales buildings, food-to-go extensions and drive-thrus, built with the forecourt or on their own.
With Broham Energy
Ultra-rapid charging hubs and EV bays on working forecourts, LPG and hydrogen, with the power planned from day one.
Sites we’ve built
Every forecourt has a catch. Here are some of ours, and how we dealt with them.
Asda
Nuneaton, Warwickshire
BP with M&S Simply Food
West Midlands
Motor Fuel Group
Chester Road, Manchester
Extra MSA
M1 junction 45, Leeds
Brookfield Group
Selby, North Yorkshire
Asda
Craven Way, Bristol
MFG Canvey Island Essex
EV chargers, a Greggs extension, jet wash and valeting, with the existing business open throughout.
Speke Service Station Liverpool
New to industry for A+F Group: fuel, a Wendy’s drive-thru and a 10-bay ultra-rapid hub.
MFG Aerodrome Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Knock-down rebuild as principal contractor for the civils and groundworks. Reopened May 2026.
MFG Oulton Broad Lowestoft, Suffolk
Ground-up rebuild with a Londis, Greggs, jet wash bays and six 150kW chargers.
Tankerford, Drayton Road Norwich
A 24-hour filling station with four jet wash bays and a 3,100 sq ft shop.
From our 2026 project updates. Ask us about current work near you.
Sites shown on the map: Feering (our base), Leeds Skelton Lake, Asda Nuneaton, MFG Stretford, BP Foley, Costa Selby, Asda Longwell Green, Cobham services, M25, Beaconsfield services, M40, BP Braintree, BP Penns Lane, Asda Sutton-in-Ashfield, Starbucks Spalding, MFG Canvey Island, Speke, Liverpool, MFG Aerodrome, Duxford, MFG Oulton Broad, Tankerford, Norwich, Asda Eastbourne and Asda Great Yarmouth.
How a knock-down rebuild runs
The same order on every rebuild, numbered the way a forecourt counts: by pump.
Site surveys, ground investigation and a design-and-build package that meets your brand standards, tank sizes and flow rates.
Planning conditions, building regulations, drainage consents and the 28-day notice to your Petroleum Enforcement Authority before any tank work.
Decommission the fuel system, take out tanks and lines, remove asbestos and demolish, then deal with whatever the ground turns up.
Tank excavations and bases, fuel pipework, drainage, interceptors and attenuation, and every duct for power and data.
Canopy, islands and pumps, shop, wash and EV bays, phased wherever a store or a neighbour needs to keep trading.
Testing and commissioning, certificates and a complete handover file, ready for your opening day.
Why Broham
Most of our work comes from people we have built for before. Six reasons they call us again.
CHAS-accredited as a principal contractor: one programme, one point of contact and one team answerable for the whole site.
Directly employed site teams and an in-house civils team, based around the country, not a chain of labour-only subcontractors.
Supermarkets, hotels, homes and neighbouring businesses stay open beside our sites. We plan access, hours and deliveries around them.
Design, construction and decommissioning to APEA and Energy Institute guidance, with our safety system audited inside and out.
Grid connections, utilities and civils come from inside our group, so the power is designed with the build, not after it.
We have worked with BP for more than 30 years, and keep building for Asda, Motor Fuel Group and Extra.
Our group
Broham is part of a family-owned group based at Brooms Barn in Feering. Between us we cover the forecourt, the power behind it and the ground beneath it.
Principal contractor for fuel and EV forecourts, shops and drive-thrus. That’s us.
NERS-accredited independent connection provider: grid connections, substations and HV and LV cabling up to 132kV.
Multi-utility pipework and civil engineering for water, gas, power and communications, since 2002.
Civil engineering and groundworks, part of the same group since before Broham joined it.
Safety and accreditation
Accreditations, insurances, policies and references, in one email.
Our story
Bob Brown and Chris Hamilton, 1980. The name stuck, and so did the trade.
Bob Brown and Chris Hamilton start the business.
Renamed Broham Forecourt Developments, to say what we do.
Kevin Porter joins, later leading the business.
The Porter family takes over from the Hamiltons.
A new home at Brooms Barn in Feering, and the bh mark.
The Hughes family’s Baxter Holdings joins us to its group.
Our sister company Broham Energy launches.
We’re often looking for people who know live fuel sites.
Often, in part. Many of our sites share an access with a store, a hotel or a neighbouring business that stays open, and we phase the work, time deliveries and manage traffic around them. The fuel area itself usually closes while tanks and pipework are replaced. We’ll tell you at the start what can stay open, and for how long.
Yes. We plan the power alongside the rest of the build, and our sister company Broham Energy, an independent connection provider, can design and build the connection, substations and cabling up to 132kV.
Yes. Alongside BP, Asda, Motor Fuel Group and Extra we build for independent retailers and dealer groups, from a pump upgrade to a brand-new site.
Across Great Britain. We are based in Feering, near Colchester, and our recent sites run from Norwich and Canvey Island to Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.
Yes. Decommissioning and remediation are a big part of our work: making fuel systems safe, removing tanks, lines and asbestos, and treating or removing contaminated ground, with the notices your Petroleum Enforcement Authority needs before work starts.
Yes. On design-and-build projects we take on the construction design too. At Asda Sutton-in-Ashfield that included the fuel installation design, drainage approvals, building regulations and discharging the planning conditions.
We are CHAS-accredited as a principal contractor and hold Constructionline Gold, and we are members of APEA, the Energy Institute, PEIMF, CIOB and the REA. Ask for our prequalification pack and we’ll send the lot.
Discuss your project
A rebuild, a new site, EV bays or a tired shop. Give us the outline and the right person will call you back.
Thank you. It’s with our team.
We’ll be in touch about your site soon. If it’s urgent, call 01206 210455.
