A scrap yard that built itself up from a field

From a field to this

In August 2014 the Environment Agency granted MLB Autospares its licence to treat end-of-life vehicles, and we started taking cars in at Kilnhurst Road. There is no romance in what the place looked like: a field, with no concrete, no buildings and no machinery to speak of. Cars were taken apart with what we had.

Everything on the yard now was paid for by the cars that came through it. Over the years since, millions of pounds have gone into the site itself — the concrete and drainage a treatment facility runs on, the buildings, the balers, the Powerhand excavators, the scrap handlers, and the recovery trucks that do the collecting.

That history is why the site can say what it says. The count at the top of this page is not an estimate — it is every car in our own collection records since 2015, and it goes up as the yard works. It is also why the price we quote is the price that gets paid: the people who set it are the people who will depollute the car, strip it and bale it here.

Why the new name

For more than ten years this yard traded as MLB Autospares. The name never told anyone what we actually do, so in October 2026 the company became Motorspot Ltd. Only the name changed: the company number, the yard on Kilnhurst Road, the people and the phone number (01709 522656) are exactly as they were.

The rename came with a bigger change behind the scenes. We now run the business on one system of our own, built around how a scrap yard really works. Your quote, the booking, the driver’s job sheet, what happens to the car once it is through our gate and the paperwork at the end all sit in one place. In practice that means:

• you get updates as your car moves along, instead of having to chase us;
• every vehicle is tracked from the booking until it has been depolluted and recycled, so nothing gets lost between the truck and the yard;
• the yard works to a daily plan, so more cars get through without corners being cut.

If you dealt with us as MLB Autospares, you’ll find the same yard and the same faces, just under a new sign.