Net World Sports pushes on with 920,000 sq ft expansion plan

The ambitious Wrexham company has lodged a scoping opinion request signalling its intention to develop a campus across 58 acres in Marchwiel.

The site identified sits off Cefn Road and to the west of Sesswick Road, with the expansion project sitting separately to the ecology corridor and 156,800 sq ft warehouse consented in early June.

Net World’s expansion site as a whole amounts to 83 acres across two parcels, with the first, of 57.8 acres, being the focus of industrial development activity.

Mauna Kea, the company’s development arm, is leading the project, with professional advisors led by Carter Jonas and architect and masterplanner SGP.

Fourteen units are included in the illustrative masterplan, the largest single shed being 282.525 sq ft. Tere are two units of around 170,000 sq ft. The smaller of the units proposed come in between 15,000 sq ft and 17,000 sq ft and sits in a cluster in the south-west corner.

Close to the Five Fords sewage works, the site is currently predominantly agricultural land, with the built up area of Wrexham Industrial Estate to the north east.

According to the documents submitted, to the south and west of the site is predominately agricultural land, with small clusters of development as well as isolated buildings. Development in the surrounding rural landscape is predominately residential or agricultural.

Signing off Wrexham Council’s view on the planning bid, interim chief officer economy and planning Ian Jones summed up that a scoping opinion is adopted, with agricultural land & soils, eir quality and ecology included in the scope of the scheme’s environmental statement.

The documents can be viewed on Wrexham’s planning portal, reference SC/2026/0001.