Caddick expands North West office

Warrington Council’s executive board will next week be asked to give the go-ahead to Omega Local Highways Phase 3, a series of improvements to the road network around the Omega site, now firmly established as a logistics hotspot and moving into a phase of residential development.

Proposals to build housing on a green belt site in Lymm, currently used as a caravan park, are due to be discussed by Warrington’s development management committee when it meets next week.

The executive board of Warrington Council has approved a town centre public realm project and a road improvement scheme to support the ongoing highway works at junction 8 of the M62, the key junction for the Omega distribution hub and Lingley Mere.

Balfour Beatty is set for a November start on Warrington West station, with the council looking to sign off a £19.7m funding package at an executive meeting on Monday.

Developer Lane End has submitted a planning application on behalf of Torus Housing Group for a 144-home apartment block in Warrington town centre.

Martin Sharkey has been named head of construction at regeneration specialist Galliford Try Partnerships North West, following a year as senior build manager with the firm. 

John Osborne has joined as senior quantity surveyor and Owen Clarke as site manager. Both will be working on the 26-home Edge Fold Road development in Walkden.  

Mason Lord owed its creditors £1.4m before its collapse earlier this year, an administrators’ report has revealed, with some trade creditors owed more than £100,000 each.

Work is underway on a 66-home development in Birchwood for Your Housing Group’s private rental arm Nuvu Living.