Astley joins Vistry Partnerships

The university is in talks to relocate its Warrington campus to the £142m town centre mixed-use scheme being delivered by the council and Muse Developments.

Life Technologies has agreed to lease an industrial unit in The Grange employment area from Custodian Reit on a 10-year lease.

The housebuilder is moving its regional head office from Newton-Le-Willows to 4,000 sq ft at the Warrington business park, as it adopts flexible working practices trialled during the pandemic.

Blackpool, Barrow-in-Furness and Warrington are among the first seven locations to have funding bids accepted as part of the Government’s much-vaunted levelling-up programme.

The developer has let a 185,000 sq ft distribution centre at the Warrington industrial park to an intralogistics provider, taking the first phase to fully let at more than 1m sq ft.

Stoford Developments and its development partner Oxenwood Real Estate have let a speculative warehouse at the business park in Golborne to Globus Group, a manufacturer of personal protective equipment.

The developer has acquired land in Warrington with planning permission for 172 homes from government body Homes England for an undisclosed sum.  

Industrial developer Mountpark is selling the first phase of its Warrington logistics park, totalling more than 750,000 sq ft, as part of a £480m European property portfolio sale.

The global finance firm has taken an additional 19,600 sq ft of office space at the business park near Warrington in addition to the 27,000 sq ft it leased at a neighbouring building in January.