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New sports pitches were also promised for local rugby league and football teams. None of it, so far, has materialised. Job figures are disputed, with the total new jobs created thought to be around 300. Neither Amazon, nor St Helens Council has provided figures. Mr Parkinson, who led a campaign of 2,000 locals objecting to the development, claimed St Helens Council have been “taken to the cleaners” with the jobs boom not materialising and locals left to deal with problems associated with the site. He said: “Was the creation of two, three hundred jobs worth the destruction of 60-plus acr...

Furious locals have slammed developers behind a massive warehouse development - part occupied by Amazon and Kellogg's - which they say has created 'chaos' in the area. Critics of Florida Farm in Haydock claim the site  - built on 900,000 sq ft of green belt - has created less than 10 per cent of the up to 5,000 jobs developers promised. They say the development, which is home to an Amazon 'sortation' centre, is bringing hundreds of lorries past their home each day. And they claim drivers are using the grass areas around the site as a public toilet - including chucking out bottles of urine fr...

New sports pitches were also promised for local rugby league and football teams. None of it, so far, has materialised. Job figures are disputed, with the total new jobs created thought to be around 300. Neither Amazon, nor St Helens Council has provided figures. Mr Parkinson, who led a campaign of 2,000 locals objecting to the development, claimed St Helens Council have been “taken to the cleaners” with the jobs boom not materialising and locals left to deal with problems associated with the site. He said: “Was the creation of two, three hundred jobs worth the destruction of 60-plus acr...