Amazon has doubled down on its UK expansion plan with the purchase of a major new fulfillment centre on Tyneside, close to ports which are expected to receive a boost in activity from Brexit.

Filings on Companies House reveal Amazon has taken control of Follingsby International Enterprise Park, a developer which controls a 22-hectare site in Gateshead, just south of Newcastle.

According to planning documents, which list Follingsby as the owner and developer, a warehouse as big as 190,000 square metres could be built on the site, with proposals currently going through consultation.

The total development cost of the site, called Follingsby Park South and situated between Sunderland, Newcastle and Durham, has been estimated at around £120m. A warehouse on the land could employ a total of 3,225 people, documents suggested.

Amazon last month confirmed it was opening its first North East fulfilment centre, near Darlington, although that site is leased and not owned.

Amazon declined to comment on the purchase of Follingsby International.