By Aran Dhillon, Local Democracy Reporter
The Parkside site WAREHOUSE space still needs to be provided for companies despite the ‘bricks and mortar’ retail decline during the coronavirus pandemic, a public inquiry has heard. The virtual public inquiry over plans to regenerate the former Parkside Colliery site in Newton-le-Willows started this week. Proposals to redevelop former colliery, which was shut in 1993, were originally submitted in January 2018 by Parkside Regeneration LLP, a joint venture between developer Langtree and St Helens Borough Council. St Helens Borough Council granted outline planning permission in December 2019, while also giving the green light for the Parkside Link Road project, which is seen as a key element to unlocking the potential of the site.
Parkside has been a potential development since the colliery shut and the famous towers were demolished TRAFFIC in Winwick is already at breaking point and redevelopment of Parkside should only begin at the same time as a new link road. These concerns were shared by Labour councillor Cathy Mitchell during the public inquiry into plans to regenerate the former colliery in Newton-le-Willows. Proposals to redevelop former colliery, which was shut in 1993, were originally submitted in January 2018 by Parkside Regeneration LLP, a joint venture between developer Langtree and St Helens Borough Council. St Helens Borough Council granted outline planning permission in December 2019, while also giving the green light for the Parkside Link Road project, which is seen as a key element to unlocking the potential of the site.
An aerial view of the proposed Parkside site A PUBLIC inquiry into a proposed major development on the site of the former Parkside Colliery will be held next week. St Helens Borough Council granted outline planning permission for the first phase of regeneration of the former Newton-le-Willows pit site and surrounding land last December. The plans would see the land transformed into a major logistics hub. The site, which is in the green belt, is viewed as a major employment site for the borough and region. Plans were were submitted by Parkside Regeneration LLP, a joint venture between commercial developers Langtree and St Helens Council.
The link road will run alongside the proposed redevelopment on the Parkside site BATTLE lines will be drawn over a controversial development on the site of the former Parkside Colliery next week Outline planning permission was granted for the first phase of the regeneration of the former colliery in last December, which would see it transformed into a major logistics hub. The site, which is in the green belt, is viewed as a major employment site for St Helens and the Liverpool City Region, with the combined authority approving £24 million for the Parkside Link Road project in November. The link road, which is also in the green belt, will connect the A49 Winwick Road directly with the M6 at Junction 22 and will act as a by-pass to divert traffic away from Newton-le-Willows, Winwick and Hermitage Green.