Demo nears for Fiddler’s Ferry’s last cooling towers
Peel NRE has secured permission from Warrington Council to clear the final portion of the 800-acre power station, readying the site for its future as an 860-home neighbourhood with a primary school, local health centre, nature reserve, and 4m sq ft of employment space.
The multi-phased demolition programme at the Fiddler’s Ferry site began more than three years ago, with the razing of four of the eight cooling towers taking place in 2023.
This application, signed off by council officers using delegated powers, will see the remaining four cooling towers meet a controlled explosive end. They are set to be razed at the end of this year.
The station’s former turbine hall, boiler house, chimney stack, and GT exhaust stack are also due to be bulldozed.
Contractor DSM Demolition has been on site since December, removing asbestos, de-planting the turbine hall, and readying the site for clearing. The overall demolition programme is due to take at least 18 months.
In addition to DSM, the project team includes Turley, TUV Rheinland, Arcadis, TEP, Vibrock, and Southern Cooling.
You can view the demolition application by searching reference 2025/01392/DEM on Warrington Council’s planning portal.
Making the most out of the site’s former power station status will be TITAN Group. TITAN is Peel NRE’s first Fiddler’s Ferry tenant and will be using the waste ash from the power plant’s former activities to make low-carbon cement and concrete.
“Demo” is this a demonstration?, ie protesting or alternatively showing something off?
In a property context, I am confused
By Major D M Hughes
Thanks Major D M Hughes for your comment on this and another story. Demo as in demolition. Understood it was not clear to you, but I believe the first line clears up any confusion you may have.
By Julia Hatmaker
What a shame! These should be listed! They are iconic. Could we save them???
By Mary Smiley
Major DM Hughes, the term Demo is a shortened slang or clipped form of the word demolition;It comes from the Latin verb demoliri, which means “to pull down” or “unbuild.
By General Malarkey
Anybody wanting to save them clearly doesnt live anywhere near them.
By Anonymous
My father worked on the construction of these in the sixties.
By Eric