DEVELOPERS have won planning consent for a major scheme involving more shops, restaurant and café and 
drinking establishment in the historic heart of Warrington town centre.
The scheme – approved by planning officers under delegated powers – is centred on the schoolroom at Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel, the adjoining Garnett’s warehouse building and adjacent old office buildings.
The distinctive Garnett’s tower would be retained – and the historic Cairo Street Chapel itself would be untouched.
But the former school chapel would be demolished, as would the main warehouse building.
Plans for the redevelopment of the site were exclusively revealed by Warrington-Worldwide last year.
They involve a range of shops, restaurants, cafés, drinking establishments and offices, as well as an assembly/leisure area.
While part of the scheme would involve new building, some existing buildings would be refurbished.
Cairo Street Chapel was built in 1745 and its interior dates from 1863. It has historical associations with Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Ann Laetitia Barbauld and prison reformer John Howard.
Pictured…the Garnett’s tower which is to be retained
More shops and bars for town centre
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Don’t we have enough drinking establishments? I thought the powers that be were trying to change this drink culture problem.