Enabling works approved for £180m Knauf Insulation factory

Flintshire County Council voted yesterday in favour of the remediation application for Deeside Industrial Park. Also on the receiving end of a green light: Castle Green’s second try at an affordable housing development at Quarry Farm and a padel complex in Buckley.

Deeside Industrial Park

• Application reference: FUL/000129/26

Knauf Insulation can soon kick off its plans to remediate 43.7 acres of land at the industrial estate while waiting for approval of a second application to construct a 200,000 sq ft production facility on the site.

The land was part of the Tata Steel complex at Deeside and is presently mostly scrubland. An unused rail line is also on the site.

Overall, building the factory is set to cost £180m. The scheme has received support to the tune of more than £14m from the £1bn North Wales Growth Deal.

The project team includes WSP, AEW, Tyler Grange, Tier Consult Group, and Eddisons. John F Hunt Regeneration issued the CEMP for the remediation work.

Read more about Knauf Insulation’s plans to create 137 jobs in Flintshire.

Land at Quarry Farm

• Application reference: FUL/001038/25

Castle Green Homes can now look to building 109 affordable homes on 12 acres of Quarry Farm, south of Chester Road in Oakenholt. This was a reworked version of an earlier scheme that had been refused due to overdevelopment. That project had called for the building of 121 affordable homes.

This application saw the number of homes reduced to 109, tweaked the layout, and ensured that housing types met needs listed in the latest local housing market assessment.

Accordingly, there will be a mixture of apartments, terraces, semi-detached houses, and bungalows on the site. There will be 16 with just one bedroom, 45 with two, 33 with three, and 15 with four.

The project team includes Hourigan Planning, FPCR Environment and Design, TPM Landscape, Grimster Planning, Reading Agricultural Consultants, Ascerta, Wardell Armstrong, Heneb, Coopers, E3P, NKC Geotech Limited, and SCP.

Castle Green is currently appealing the earlier version of the project, with a hearing having taken place last week. You can learn more about the appeal by searching reference CAS-04653-H5H1S8 on the Welsh Government’s Planning Casework portal.

Former Glen Dimplex Professional Appliances site

• Application reference: FUL/000022/26

A 20,000 sq ft padel court complex is coming to the town of Buckley, with a Mark Jones being successful in his application to convert half of the Glen Dimplex warehouse into a leisure club.

Under his proposals, there shed would hold padel courts, a coffee shop, gym, and indoor football facilities.

These would be located at the junction of Chester Road and Drury New Road, within the Little Mountain Industrial Park.