“What could you consider putting in place to assist them?” Clr McBride suggested: “Your additional concerns may relate to the fact that you objected to this site being used for this purpose in the first place.” The 59-acre sloping site between Whitehall Road, Whitechapel Road and the M62 will be entirely given over to the facility – which will be a third of a kilometre long, 178m wide and 23m high – as well as space for nearly 200 HGVs and 900 cars and vans. That has lead to concerns that local routes – including the Chain Bar junction – could become clogged. In pure employment terms the proposed warehouse could provide 1,500 jobs.