Drive-thru Greggs and 20,500 sq ft Aldi planned for Deeside
Proposals have been submitted to Flintshire County Council by the food retailer seeking to create a supermarket and bakery unit on a 3.5-acre site off Welsh Road near Queensferry.
The long-term vacant site is included in Flintshire’s Local Development Plan for a district centre to serve the growing Garden City being developed there, known as The Airfields.
Outline permission is already in place for the redevelopment of the wider area to provide employment and a residential-led mixed-use development.
Reserved matters consent was also granted two years ago to develop 12 district centre units for uses including food retail and food and drink.
This scheme has proved “challenging to deliver, but remains of relevance as a ‘fall-back’ position in planning terms”, according to the planning statement put together by Avison Young.
The statement adds that the proposed Aldi and drive-thru Greggs reflect current market interest in the site and the changing economic context.
Aldi will take up 20,600 sq ft of which 14,500 sq ft will be a sales floor area, while the Greggs unit will take up 1,800 sq ft at the site.
In terms of parking 133 spaces will serve Aldi and 25 car park spaces will be for the Greggs, as well as an electric vehicle charging hub featuring 18 rapid chargers.
Existing access to the site will be used via the junction from the unnamed commercial spine road connecting the Airfields development to the Welsh Road, constructed as part of the enabling works to the site.
Flintshire County Council planners will decide on these proposals at a future date.
Avison Young, The Harris Partnership, Tyler Grange, Spectrum Acoustic Consultants, JPG, Sol Environment, and Hydrock now Stantec feature on the project team.
To view the plans, search for reference number FUL/000521/24 on Flintshire County Council’s planning portal.
Another Aldi that might’ve made better use of the land by putting a few storeys of residential above.
Drive-through Greggs are quite possibly the pinnicle of the sort of unhealthy thing that planning ought to be stopping. Popular amongst the masses is not always the same as good.
By Anonymous
This brings good job opportunities and training and massively increases choice for local people- good development is alway sky scrapers in Manchester
By Stuart wood
They just need a Starbucks or Costa and the trinity of bland convenience, seas of car parking and underutilisation of sites can continue to add to the attraction of this ‘garden city ‘.
By Jim Royle
That’s one of the most depressing CGI’s that I’ve ever seen. Approx 70-80% of the site used for a hardsurfaced car park! Why not put parking at basement level and increase landscaping across the site. All paid for by additional retail floor space at ground level with a couple of storeys residential above. Simple really.
By Anonymous