Panattoni, Mitsui Fudosan unveil £135m Warrington warehouse plans

Coming in at a proposed 675,100 sq ft, the shed would sit on the former Iceland frozen food distribution site at Hardwick Grange.

Panattoni and Mitsui Fudosan purchased the 30-acre site last year from Firethorn and English Real Estates. At the time, the duo had said their plans would for the site would have a gross development value of £135m.

Now, those plans have been detailed, with an application submitted to Warrington Council last week.

Drawn up by UMC Architects, the proposals show a building with 633,000 sq ft of warehouse space and a three-storey, 42,100 sq ft office on its south-western corner. The complex would have 76 dock loading doors and eight level access ones, with space for 124 HGVs to park.

Employees and visitors would leave their cars in a 486-space car park. Of those 486 bays, 26 would be for those with disabilities and 26 for car sharing schemes. There would also be 106 equipped with electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

An overflow car park of 43 spaces is also part of the designs.

UMC Architects designed the building. Credit: via planning documents

The shed itself would be BREEAM Outstanding and achieve an EPC rating of A for its warehouse and A+ for the offices. The developers aim to accomplish this through the utilisation of air source heat pumps, solar thermal domestic hot water, and solar panels.

The Panattoni and Mitsui Fudosan plans would see the amount of employment space increase on the site by more than 200,000 sq ft – as their proposed shed would replace the three existing buildings on the plot. These building shave a cumulative 432,200 sq ft.

The proposals would also generate £38.3m in annual economic output, according to the planning statement by Lichfields. It would also have to pay £2.2m in business rates annually, half of which would stay in Warrington.

In addition to Lichfields and UMC Architects, the project team includes BWB, Winvic, Curtins, and BCA Design Landscape Architects.

You can learn more about the application by searching 2026/00077/FULM on Warrington Council’s planning portal.