Deeside Northern Gateway: seven-unit scheme approved with developer forecasting up to 600 jobs
Plans for seven 24-hour warehouses on 27 acres of cleared land between Amazon and the new ICTUK paper mill at Deeside’s Airfields site have been approved by Flintshire County Council.
Developer Marshall Commercial Development Projects forecasts the £70 million scheme will create up to 600 jobs once running, plus 300 construction jobs during the build.
The seven-unit scheme replaces a single 525,000 sq ft warehouse approved on the same land in February 2023 that was never built.
The council issued its decision on 14 May 2026.
The earlier scheme, branded “Stealth” by Marshall, was given planning committee approval in February 2023 with a build timetable starting that summer and finishing in autumn 2024.
Neither happened, and the site has sat cleared and unbuilt for more than three years.
The redesigned scheme keeps the Stealth name but divides the 27 acres into seven units rather than one.
Marshall is marketing six of the seven units to let through agent Legat Owen, with availability from Summer 2027.
The seventh and largest unit, at 211,500 sq ft, is not yet on the open market.
Together the seven warehouses would provide 405,000 sq ft of floorspace for industrial, storage and distribution use.
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Unit 1, the largest, would cover 211,500 sq ft and stand more than 20 metres tall.
The other six would be smaller, ranging from 12,000 sq ft up to 57,000 sq ft.
All seven would be built in steel cladding with low brickwork at ground level.
The site, known as Plot B, sits within the wider Northern Gateway, which has long been earmarked for more than 1,300 new homes and a large area of industrial land.
The land has been cleared and prepared for industrial use since 2019 under earlier consents.
Amazon’s distribution centre sits directly to the east.
The new ICTUK paper mill is to the west.
To the north, the Chester Millennium Greenway cycle path separates the site from the Deeside Industrial Estate.
To the south, across the spine road, are the new Anwyl Homes and Bellway estates at Summers Bridge.
The principle of warehouse development on Plot B was settled by an outline planning permission granted by the council in April 2021.
Marshall has already developed other plots at the Northern Gateway, including Plot D.
The council was satisfied that the round-the-clock operation would not be too noisy for the nearest homes, on Rollason Grove and Bayley Road around 60 metres south of the site.
An earth mound topped with an acoustic fence has already been built along the southern edge of the site to shield the new housing.
Traffic from Plot B was also accepted, with the developer’s consultants finding the extra vehicle journeys would sit within the levels already planned for when the wider Northern Gateway was first approved.
Road improvements demanded at that earlier stage have already been built and signed off, including new traffic signals at the A494 Drome and Deeside Industrial Park junctions and at the Queensferry interchange with the A550.
The site has its own access from the spine road that runs past it.
Unlike the 2023 version, which went before Flintshire’s planning committee, the new scheme was approved by a council planning officer alone.
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