BT’s Warrington hub tipped for industrial

The local authority’s planning committee went against officers’ recommendations and blocked Extra MSA’s plans for a service station and 100-bedroom hotel off junction 11 of the M62. 

A site next to the town’s BT exchange that has outline planning permission for a 39-unit residential scheme has hit the market. 

The developer’s contracting arm has begun work to transform a grade two-listed former post office on Palmyra Square into 21 hotel apartments, approved last year.

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Developer High Street Group is looking for a contractor to complete its stalled £50m residential scheme in Warrington while it awaits the outcome of a legal case between itself and Nobles Construction, which stopped work at the site in November.

Warrington Council has signed off a change of use application, allowing the development of a “shop front” for the University of Chester at the town centre mixed-use scheme.

Bolton-based real estate investor Park Equity Invest wants to create a 74-apartment scheme on the site of the Wilson Patten Street office building.

A developer rebuffed in November with plans for three industrial units on Haydock Street in the town centre has submitted refreshed plans.

A joint venture between the two developers has started construction of a 120,000 sq ft scheme located on the final plot of the Warrington business park.