St Helens grants go-ahead for 88,000 sq ft Haydock industrial

Trailed in summer 2025 as a project with a manufacturing occupier lined up, a five-acre site south of Penny Lane currently used for garden shed sales can now be developed.

The high-bay building as set out by applicant Fieldstone End and planning advisor Roman Summer will have a footprint of 75,438 sq ft but its floorspace will amount to 88,608 sq ft in total.

This will be made up of 67,723 sq ft of industrial & logistics floorspace with office/R&D space across extra floors adding a further 20,885 sq ft.

Martin Spencer Architecture has designed the scheme, which was submitted in summer 2025 with the development team hinting that an advanced manufacturing occupier is lined up to take the space.

Fieldstone’s professional team also includes EAT Landscape, Focus Transport, Enzygo and Mulberry Tree Consultancy, Betts Hydro and Adept Civils.

The site, billed as Haydock 92, is adjacent to the Mercure hotel close to Junction 22 of the M6, a well established I&L location.

Lancashire property heavyweight Barnfield Construction is a JV partner in Fieldstone.

The development will represent the third phase of development at the Haydock Green site. The initial 370,000 sq ft building was let to Movianto in 2019, while Fieldstone End secured a tweak to the planning permission for the second building, Haydock 140, in December.

Approval was signed off by St Helens Council on 23 December. The scheme’s application number is P/2025/0457/FUL.