First Class Sites


Cheshire and Warrington meets the business needs of companies of all sizes with its wide range of development sites and commercial space.


Key strategic schemes in the sub-region include:


• Chester Business Park - one of the North West’s largest and most prestigious business locations. Home to a number of successful financial services businesses including Bank of America (MBNA) and M&S Money.


• Chester Northgate - the redevelopment of a key city centre site to include a new multiplex cinema, department store, restaurants, retail units and a new library and market.


• Chester Central Business Quarter - a £115-million scheme to create more than 500,000 sq ft of new Grade A office space over the next ten years.


• Warrington Birchwood Park - a 120-acre site that is home to more than 150 companies, including leading names like Amec, Toshiba and Serco.


• Warrington Lingley Mere - a well-established landscaped business park with 1.25 million sq ft of business space, including the United Utilities HQ.


• Warrington Omega - the 575-acre former Burtonwood airbase that could accommodate up to 24,000 new jobs over the next 25 years.


• Warrington Bridge Street and Times Square - a £130-million scheme to transform an area including Warrington waterfront with shops, leisure facilities, cultural centre and offices.


• Winsford Industrial Estate - the UK’s first Green Business Park.


• Ellesmere Port Waterfront - a major scheme to create hundreds of new homes alongside leisure and tourism-related development.


• Crewe Business Park - a 67-acre site which is one of only two business parks in the UK to have received the Millennium Marque Award for environmental excellence.


• New Bridge Road, Ellesmere Port – a 60ha site suitable for a range of industrial and commercial uses. Currently subject to an extensive master planning exercise by Cheshire West and Chester Council and Partners.


• Basford Crewe - major allocations of employment land south of the town on either side of the West Coast Mainline.


£130-million


scheme to transform Warrington Bridge Street and Times Square with a waterfront, shops, restaurants, cinema, market, cultural centre, hotel and council offices


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