AtkinsRéalis – which manages the warehouse for Jeff Beszos’ online retail giant – has submitted a planning application to Flintshire County Council to install the substation at the Amazon Delivery Station at the Airfields Northern Gateway. The application seeks permission for both free standing and wall-mounted electric vehicle chargers to power its delivery vans plus the substation to manage the power flow. Opened in 2020, the warehouse delivers to postcodes across North Wales, Chester, parts of Cheshire and Shropshire and was Amazon’s first purpose-built delivery station in the UK. It currently runs a fleet of more than 30 Mercedes-Benz electric commercial vans – part of Amazon’s wider European fleet of 10,000 electric vans. In their application planning consultants DWD said: “The proposed development is required to meet the identified occupier’s operational requirements, which should be afforded significant weight in accordance with national planning policy.