WARRINGTON’S skyline is changing forever with the ongoing demolition of the Garnett’s Water tower as part of the town centre regeneration.
Due to the dangerous and delapidated state of the iconic feature, it is literally being taken down brick by brick.
Steve Park, MD of Warrington & Co said: “You will have no doubt noticed that there is a lot of scaffolding around Bridge Street at the moment and more recently around the Cabinet Works building as the town centre regeneration continues.
Steve Park
“The beautiful façade of Howard Building (locally and more recently remembered as the former Boots building) is scaffold protected whilst demolition takes place of the 1970s building behind and to allow the construction of the new, permanent market to commence. Conservation works will be undertaken on this fascia to clean, repair and protect it for the future. Behind it the rest of the site is clear. The old market hall has gone and the rubble is being cleared.
“The precarious and dangerous state of the Cabinet Works building requires careful hand demolition – a process that will take until this Summer to complete. The site itself is key in the regeneration and the future vibrancy of the town centre. It provides a direct link from what will be a new leisure destination in Time Square into the continually improving Cultural Quarter.
“The future use of the Cabinets Works site is still to be determined but developer interest is very high and the site is earmarked in Warrington Means Business, Warrington’s framework for growth for residential use.
Elsewhere in the town centre the proposal as to whether the town centre should create Business Improvement District has taken a major step forward with the business ballot now underway.
Following the consultation, town centre businesses are now being balloted as to whether they would wish to be a part of a Business Improvement District. As previously mentioned in the column
Business Improvement Districts are very successful in many other towns and cities and empower businesses as to the management and direction as to how their town centre should be run. I would encourage all town centre businesses to look out for their ballot paper and vote,” added Steve.
For more details visit https://www.warringtonbid.co.uk/
Garnett’s Cabinet Works -Picture Paul Jackson
2 Comments
Town centre destruction more like! It appears the only people who will benefit is the developers.
WBC have no respect for our history – there was no need to demolish the tower – the main costs of either demolition or renovation would be the cost of scaffolding – so it would probably have been cheaper to renovate. As it stands, the developer gets a cleared site – paid for with Warrington public funds.
If they are taking down brick by brick can they put the tower bit up somewhere else or back on top of the new development!