Sarah Townsend
Completion of the residential development in central Warrington has been pushed back several months to early next year as construction work pauses while the developer reviews its delivery programme.
Newcastle-based High Street Group is building the £48.7m Cheshire Junction, an eight-storey block planned to deliver 362 apartments on a former industrial site on John Street. The scheme also includes a car park with 796 spaces.
As of last November, main contractor Nobles Construction had completed the external frame and begun work erecting the external walls and creating the internal structure of the apartments, with fit-out to follow, according to a project update sent to investors at the time. The scheme was intended to complete by November 2021.
Every parish and borough council seat in the town will be up for grabs on May 6. In 2018, independent Geoff Fellows won a Penketh and Cuerdley borough council seat. Jimmy Robinson gained an Orford council seat from Labour, as an independent, in the 1990s. He was a former Labour councillor. That came after former mayor Fred Phillips held a Burtonwood seat as an independent. Cllr Fellows told voters the elections present a once in a four-year opportunity to make the change ‘you’ve been asking for and you deserve’. He also says he offers himself as a ‘desperately needed’ alternative candidate for the ward.
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Dan Whelan
Separate acquisitions by Warrington Council and Pictet Alternative contributed to £325m of deals recorded in the city’s office market last year, more than any other major UK city outside London, according to consultancy Avison Young.
In November, property investor Helical sold its Powerhouse Portfolio, comprising three Manchester office assets, to Pictet Alternative for £119m, while a month earlier, Warrington Council agreed to forward fund BT’s North West headquarters at English Cities Fund’s New Bailey to the tune of £112m, as revealed by
Place North West.
Those two deals were the largest in terms of value of office sales transactions outside London in 2020 and helped Manchester record £235m of deals in the final quarter of a turbulent year, Avison Young’s Big Nine Q4 2020 report found.
Dan Whelan
The developer plans to create a coffee shop and events space on the ground floor of the former Parr’s Bank on Winwick Street, having started work to convert the building into a hotel.
Last year, Warrington Council approved YP Group’s application to convert the three-storey property, which most recently housed NatWest bank, into a hotel featuring a reception, guests’ lounge, and lobby on the ground floor.
The hotel rooms will be located on the first and second floors of the grade two-listed building.
Under those plans, approved by Warrington Council in December, part of the ground floor was retained for an unspecified future use. In its latest application, YP proposes splitting up the remainder of the ground floor to accommodate events space and a café.