It is being developed by Four Ashes, a three-way partnership led by the specialist rail infrastructure business Kilbride Holdings, and backed by Grosvenor and the majority landowner, Piers Monckton.

The West Midlands Strategic Rail Freight Interchange will link to the motorway and the West Coast Mainline.

The vast site is 10km to the north of Wolverhampton

When built, it will provide up to 743,200 sq m of new rail-served and rail-linked warehousing allowing the region’s important logistics industry to grow.

Construction is expected to start in 2020/21 and currently expected to be phased over 15 years.

Works will include roads, bridges and drainage infrastructure, two phases of the rail freight terminal, individual buildings, extensive earthworks, landscaping and utilities works.

The hub will be home to around a dozen large sheds