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A word from Councillor Tony McDermott

Source: Widnes Waterfront

Progress towards the realisation of the overall objectives of the Widnes Waterfront programme has taken a number of huge strides in the last couple of months.
For some time most of the hard work has been taking place behind the scenes but now the fruits of all that hard work are manifest in perhaps the most visible way, contractors on site and steel coming out of the ground.
The new B&Q store and associated speculative industrial units are well advanced, contractors for Priority Sites have begun the construction of 50,000 sq ft of office and hi-tech hybrid accommodation at their site off Earle Road and Langtree Group are about to start work on 30,000 sq ft of managed office space over three floors, again off Earle Road.
Perhaps most significantly planning permission has been granted for a leisure complex featuring a five screen cinema, ice rink and associated attractions for the Council owned Venture Fields site.
The Borough in general and Widnes in particular, have been lacking a high quality leisure attraction for many years. The creation of such a facility at the Waterfront once again emphasises the pivotal role that the scheme will play, not only in the commercial regeneration of the Borough, but also the cultural renaissance of Halton.

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