Major improvements at Gatewarth get the go-ahead

PLANS for a new entrance for commercial vehicles at Warrington’s Gatewarth recycling and household waste site have been approved.
The borough council’s development management committee gave the scheme the go-ahead after hearing it would improve facilities for was waste transfer and enable the council make a more commercial use of the site to generate revenue.
It will provide a new entrance, new carriageway and footway surfacing, a new office, fencing, gates, CCTV cameras and waste electrical and electronic equipment sheds.
The entrance, off Barnard Street, are to reconfigure the site and make improvements for operational and safety reasons.
Councillors were told the site has been in operation for many years in one form or another with permission for the current site given in 1984-85.