Green light for Gulliver’s

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. 

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. 

APJ Solicitors has agreed to take an additional 6,000 sq ft at Daresbury Park, off Junction 11 of the M56, south-west of Warrington, increasing its presence at the business park. 

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.

Savills has let the ground floor of Moorland Property Solutions’ Ibis House to energy asset management firm CD Arevon UK, as agents report a steady improvement in the local market.