Retail space under apartment block in Cheshire town available to let

The premises is located on Winwick Street, Warrington, and sits below The Steelworks, a £56 million apartment complex.

The eight-storey block that consists of 362 homes and a 796-space car park on site.

And now, the retail unit below has been listed on Zoopla as available to let.

It is described as comprising a modern shell spec street level retail unit hat provides open plan space with good street frontage.

And the space itself consists of 4,363 sq ft.

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The retail space being listed as available to let comes after concerns raised last week about commercial units becoming ‘white elephants’ in the town that are never going to be utilised.

These concerns were raised after plans for a nearby development consisting of 26 apartments on Winwick Street was approved.

At a council meeting, committee member Cllr Judith Wheeler asked a question in relation to the ground floor commercial floorspace in the newly approved development and highlighted that ‘we’ve got a few developments where this has been included’.

"The concern is we build like this, with the commercial space underneath, and it doesn’t get taken,” she said.

"You know, all over town there are empty units – whether they’re older buildings or newer buildings – and my worry is that by having that as part of, I’ve not got a problem with the housing, it’s a problem with the commercial units and whether we’re creating, sort of, these dotted white elephants that are never going to be utilised, and what the views are on that really?"