PLANNING | Apartment-heavy agenda awaits Warrington
Two projects comprising a combined 500 apartments in key central locations, and a base for Warrington Youth Zone are among those to go before the council’s development control committee on Wednesday.
Local outfit Lane End is proposing 144 apartments at Academy Stret, on a site that formerly housed Kwik Save and was later home to the now-defunct Skate Academy. Within the scheme, 110 are to be two-bedroom and 34 one-bedroom. The recommendation is to approve with the condition attached that a £70,000 contribution is made to Warrington’s City Centre Access Plan.
The Lane End plan is joined on the agenda by Palmus’ plans for a mixed apartment/mutlistorey car park on brownfield land within the Stadium Quarter, a scheme that also includes 6,400 sq ft of commercial space.
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Academy Street
Developer: Lane End
Architect: PRP
Planner: Torus
Storeys: 5 to 9
Winwick Street/John Street
Developer: Palmus/High Street Group
Architect: Triangle Architects
Planner: Lichfields
Storeys: 362-apartment building of 8 storeys, multistorey car park to be 9 storeys.
Scheme: The resiential apartment is to be a PRS block, featuring 263 one-bedroom apartments, 98-two bed apartments, eight two-bed duplexes and three four-bed duplexes.
Warrington Youth Zone
Developer: OnSide Youth Zones
Architect and planner: Seven
Storeys: 3
Scheme: The site sits at Dallam Lane and Foundry Street within the Stadium Quarter close to the listed King’s Head pub, and is partially occupied by surface parking. Full consent is sought for a three-storey buiding that will include a climbing wall, boxing gym, four-court sports hall and other facilities. The application also covers an external skate park, with the overall plot taking up 34,000 sq ft.
