PLANSs for an alcohol warehouse have been given the green light despite concerns about flooding.

John Ravenscroft was granted permission by Conwy Council’s planning committee to build a warehouse for the storage and distribution of wines, spirits, and beers as well as soft drinks at Plot 1, Mathonwy, Tir Llwyd Enterprise Park in Kinmel Bay.

Mr Ravenscroft submitted the application on behalf of Messrs Hops and Barley, who distribute alcoholic and soft drinks across Wales and England, and have a number of warehouses across the region.

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North Wales is currently serviced from rental premises in Flint, and the warehouse and distribution centre will enable the company to extend the service in Wales.

The premises will also have an on-site off-licence for local customers to make collections.

Most of the building will be used as a warehouse; however, there will also be ancillary office accommodation, a kitchen, and toilets.

Council officers had advised the planning committee to grant the application, subject to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) being satisfied with a flood assessment and that their concerns about that had been satisfied.

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Kinmel Bay’s local member Cllr Nigel Smith backed the development.

“I don’t want to be seen to be improving the consumption of alcohol across the county, but I fully support this application,” he said.

“I’m one of the local members, and this is our largest employment park in the whole of the county of Conwy.

“Planning is really difficult to get on here for some strange reason. It is something to do with something that happened 30 years ago (flooding), and the rest of the residents have moved on, but NRW don’t seem to have done that. But I’m really pleased to support the officers’ recommendation on this.”

The warehouse will be a single rectangular building measuring approximately 36.3m by 26.4m, with a ridge height of 9.5m.

The lower walls will be clad with brickwork and grey concrete panels, with burgundy cladding above, and the roof will be clad with grey fibre cement sheeting.