Green light for Gulliver’s

Approval is nearing for the mixed-use central Warrington development, first proposed by developer Iliad in 2005 and now reworked, with the tallest building pencilled in at 25 storeys.

The council is expected to approve plans for 617 homes at the 575-acre Omega Warrington development, while also giving the nod to a 2.2m sq ft industrial hub for retailer Home Bargains nearby that will be ruled on by St Helens Council. 

Plans have been submitted for 115,000 sq ft of warehousing space at Gemini8 in Warrington by joint venture developers Chancerygate and Hines, accounting for the last five-acre plot at the business park.  

The developer wants to build 350 homes as part of a residential-led mixed-use scheme across 67 acres next to Daresbury Business Park, which it owns and operates. 

Industrial developer Tungsten Properties has bought 11 acres at Appleton Thorn Trading Estate in Warrington from Travis Perkins and plans to build a 243,000 sq ft shed in response to a lack of logistics stock in the North West.

Widnes-based company Premier Loushers has secured outline planning consent to redevelop a site in Latchford, Warrington, into 140 homes.

The Warrington-based builder has been appointed to complete work on Belong’s £19m care village, after the previous main contractor Pochin fell into administration last year.

Several towns and cities plan to tap into the Government’s latest offer of funding to progress property and infrastructure schemes, with council-led partnerships in Blackpool, Wyre, Cheshire and Warrington among those readying bids.

Cheshire East Council is to agree a £10m loan to the Cheshire & Warrington LEP at its cabinet meeting tomorrow, adding to funds also being put in by neighbouring Cheshire West & Chester and Warrington councils.