Company that signed heads of terms deal for Groves ceased to exist six months ago
Earlier this month the entity that Wrexham Council had had hoped would redevelop the old Groves school pulled out of the deal, with it now emerging the company that signed the heads of terms ceased to exist several months earlier.
The Groves building famously was subject to a listing hokey-cokey, with it being listed / challenged / relisted after court action and a final decision by a Welsh Government Minister (who is now First Minister) after the council expressed a desire to knock it down and put one or two new schools on the site.
Updated: Wed 12th May
Back to square one for Groves building after interested party pulls out
Plans to turn the derelict Groves secondary school into a medical training facility have been scrapped after the company interested have pulled out.
Wrexham Council had signed heads of terms with international healthcare company Apollo to allow it to take on the listed building in February last year, with work progressing until recently towards that aim, before it was put on hold with the pandemic blamed.
The firm already has a site in Crewe, known as the Apollo Buckingham Health Sciences Campus, and it is believed a training facility was planned for the former school site.
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Former Wrexham Groves School could be used as medical training facility â but plans held up by Covid travel restrictions
The former Groves School in Wrexham. Source: Google A DERELICT secondary school in Wrexham could be turned into a medical training facility, it’s been revealed. However, plans to bring the Groves School on the edge of the town centre back into use are currently being hampered because of travel restrictions designed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Wrexham Council signed heads of terms with an unnamed company to allow it to take on the listed building in February last year.